Organizational commitment and intention of permanence of nursing professionals in a private health institution, Lima

• Autores: Irma Aurora Contreras Alomía, Flor Lucila Contreras Castro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad Peruana Unión
• Repositorio: Revista UPEU - Revista Científica de Ciencias de la Salud
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.upeu.edu.pe:article/745
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.upeu.edu.pe/index.php/RCCS/article/view/745
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Commitment, organizational commitment, intention to remain, nursing.; Compromiso, compromiso organizacional, intención de permanencia, enfermería.

Objective: the verification of the existence of a direct relationship between the variables oforganizational commitment and the intention of permanence in the nursing staff of a private healthinstitution in Lima - Peru. The values according to Meller and Allen (1991) and the percentage ofemployees who intended to remain in the institution. Material and methods: the study was correlationalquantitative, not experimental, transversal and descriptive. It had as a population all the nurses ofthat establishment adding a total of 120 professionals. The sample consisted of 100 nurses selectedby non-probabilistic sample according to convenience, of which 81 collaborators filled out the datacollection instrument correctly. Results: the prevailing commitment is the affective one (93.8%), thecontinuation commitment follow-up (76.5%); However, the normative commitment (35.8%) is presentin a small percentage. 90.1% of the collaborators intend to remain in the institution. Conclusion: thereis no significant relationship between the organizational commitment and the intention of permanenceof nursing professionals.