dc.description.abstract | Career stagnation widens the gap between current performance and future expected performance. The general objective of this study was to determine the relationship between career stagnation and self-efficacy among nurses who have served for more than five years in Homa Bay County. This objective was supported with specific objectives; to identify the cause of career stagnation among nurses, to determine the effects of career stagnation on the nurses’ self-efficacy and to establish the correlation between self-efficacy and self-esteem; the study adopted a descriptive design to study the target population- nurses with more than five years of experience. Simple random sampling procedure was used to sample 70 nurses (10% of 702) who participated with a response rate of 100%. Data was collected using a questionnaire, cleaned, coded and analysed using SPSS version 20. The results obtained were presented in the form of charts, tables and graphs. The study revealed that a significant percentage (33%) of the nurses less often reviewed their individual career plan, Majority (69%) of the nurses did not pursue job opportunities. Majority (63%) of the nurses were hardly motivated and inspired to carry out their tasks/duties. The level of motivation was reported to drop as the years of experience advanced. Majority (74%) of nurses did not attend any event outside their profession Most (90%) of the nurses did not attend a course in the past six months. The relationship between the variables was tested using Chi-Square test of Independence, the findings revealed that the P-Value was more than the significant value of 0.05. No statistical evidence to assert any relationship between career stagnation and self- efficacy, self-efficacy and self-esteem among nurses. | en_US |