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This study aimed to investigate the extent of professionalism, empathy, positive psychological competence, and nursing work performance of clinical nurses and the influence of these factors on nursing work performance.The study included 160 clinical nurses, and data were analysed using means, standard deviations, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficients and multiple regression analysis.The results of this study showed that the mean age of the subjects was 30.39±7.24 years, the mean clinical experience was 7.18±7.33years, and the number of patients cared for per day was 15 or more (59.4%).Nursing professionalism varied by age, education, religion, position, and monthly income, and empathy varied significantly by position and monthly income.There were statistically significant differences in the nursing performance of the subjects by age, education, total clinical experience, length of time in the current ward, position, and monthly income.There was a significant correlation between the subjects' professionalism, empathy, positive psychological competence, and nursing performance, and it can be seen that nursing performance is higher as empathy and positive psychological competence increase, and nursing performance is more elevated as a master's degree or higher.Based on the results of this study, it can be seen that it is necessary to strengthen nurses' empathy and positive psychological competence to improve nurses' work performance.
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