To investigate status quo of professional self-identity of newly recruited nurses and analyze its influencing factors.

From July to December 2018, a two-stage cluster sampling method was adopted. In the first stage, according to the economic and administrative regions, the area was divided into six regions, namely Northeast China, East China, North China, South China, Southwest China and Northwest China, and one ClassⅢGrade A hospital was randomly selected from each administrative region. In phase 2, a cluster sampling was used to select newly recruited nurses from 6 sample hospitals in 2018. A questionnaire survey was conducted using the Nurses' Professional Self-identity Scale. A total of 267 questionnaires were collected, 258 of which were valid, with an effective recovery rate of 96.63%.

The total mean score of Nurses' Professional Self-identity Scale for 258 newly recruited nurses was (3.84±0.66) . Univariate analysis showed that there were statistically significant differences in the total mean score of Nurses' Professional Self-identity Scale of newly recruited nurses with different ages, internship time, education background and labor and personnel relations. Multiple linear regression analysis found that educational background, internship time, labor and personnel relations were the influencing factors of the professional self-identity of newly recruited nurses.

The professional self-identity of newly recruited nurses is at a medium level. Equal pay for equal work is one of the important guarantees to improve the professional self-identity of newly recruited nurses. Nursing managers should pay attention to the work pressure of new nurses with high academic qualifications and adopt targeted training programs to improve the professional identity of new nurses and ensure the stable development of the nursing team in my country.

Nurses; Newly recruited; Professional self-identity; Influencing factors