To explore the influence of nursing organization atmosphere on clinical nurses' workplace loneliness, verify and analyze the mediating role of psychological capital between nursing organization atmosphere and workplace loneliness.

This study was a cross-sectional survey, using the convenience sampling to select clinical nurses from two Class Ⅲ Grade A hospitals in Shanxi Province from October to December 2019 as the research object. The survey was conducted using the General Information Questionnaire, Organizational Climate Scale for Nursing, Questionnaire about Workplace Loneliness, and Psychological Capital Scale. The structural equation model was used to analyze the mediating effect of psychological capital between nursing organization atmosphere and workplace loneliness. A total of 1 035 questionnaires were collected in this study, with 963 valid questionnaires, and the effective response rate was 93.04%.

Among 963 clinical nurses, the total scores of Organizational Climate Scale for Nursing, Questionnaire about Workplace Loneliness, and Psychological Capital Scale were (88.08±10.08) , (30.42±5.23) and (83.21±12.62) respectively. The structural equation model showed that the nursing organization atmosphere had a direct and indirect predictive effect on nurses' workplace loneliness, and the path coefficients were -0.27 and -0.22 respectively. Psychological capital had a mediating effect between the nursing organization atmosphere and workplace loneliness.

Psychological capital plays a mediating role between nursing organization atmosphere and workplace loneliness. Nursing managers should take effective measures to create a good organizational atmosphere, improve the level of psychological capital of clinical nurses, and reduce nurses' workplace loneliness.

Nurses; Organizational atmosphere; Workplace loneliness; Psychological capital; Mediating effect