The Opinions Related to Career Planning and Developing Applications of the Nurses who Works at a Private Hospital

Aim: This study was planned to determine career planning and development practices in a private hospital and the views of nurses working in this institution. Method: The research was a descriptive study and was conducted on 237 nurses from December 2008 to February 2009 in the European and Anatolian side of a private hospital in Istanbul. The data of the study were collected by the researcher in the form of a questionnaire consisting of a total of 30 items prepared in the light of the literature and the analysis of the data was made in the SPSS package program. Findings: According to the findings; 50.2% of the nurses stated that there is no career planning and development practice in their institutions, 40.9% of them that they were not informed about open positions in their institutions. 67.1% of them that they were considered of the ability and performance to be brought to the upper position and 48.1% of them that participation in courses and seminars were provided for their career planning and development practices in their institutions and nursing services. While 58.2% of the nurses' expectation from career planning and development institutions stated that they would organize continuous education programs, 56.1% stated that career planning and development would contribute to the nursing profession. It was determined statistically significant differences between career activities of the nurses at instituon, position, age, education situation, total working time, total working time at instution, working time at the equal positions (p<0.05). Conclusion: In the study, it was concluded that there is no career planning and development policy for the employees in the institution and the practices for career planning and development are insufficient