Professional identity and sense of coherence affect the between compassion fatigue and work engagement among Chinese hospital nurses

With the continuous improvement of people's health needs, the public's requirements for medical care are also getting higher and higher. Work engagement is a positive psychological state related to the work. It is very important to maintain nurses' work engagement, however, due to many factors, the level of nurses' work engagement is not high and nursing managers should identify the influencing factors of work engagement, and take positive measures to fully improve nurses' work engagement. To explore the influence of compassion fatigue, professional identity and sense of coherence on nurses' work engagement. From January 2022 to June 2022, convenience sampling was used to select clinical nurses from 9 tertiary hospitals in Henan Province of China as the research objects for a questionnaire survey. Statistical methods included descriptive statistical analysis, Pearson correlation analysis and the PROCESS Macro Model 4 and 7 in regression analysis. The results showed that compassion fatigue was significantly negatively correlated with sense of coherence, professional identity and work engagement (P