Relationships of Nurses’ Professional Commitment with other Commitment Forms: Organizational Commitment, Work Commitment and Family Commitment

The commitment forms of individuals regarding their private and work lives have been subject to various researches in an independent or interactive way for a long time. In this study, relations have been tested for defining the relationship between the nurses’ professional commitment and organizational, work and family commitment. With this objective, the study was conducted with the nurses employed in 7 state hospitals with 500 or over bed capacity and 3 university hospitals under the body of Ankara Ministry of Health through questionnaires. In the study, 355 nurses were chosen random via proportional distribution method in stratified sampling. The correlation analysis was performed on data which were obtained from the survey method. As a result of analysis, relation between professional commitment and affective commitment was found out statistically insignificant. There is a significant positive weak relation between nurses’ professional commitment and their continuance commitment to the organization they work, their normative commitment, their work commitment and their family commitment