Abstract: Objective: To explore the current situation and latent characteristics of nurses' career calling in China, and to analyze the influencing factors, so as to provide reference for improving nurses' career calling. Methods: A total of 4797 nurses from six tertiary general hospitals were enrolled in January 2023 by convenience sampling. A general information questionnaire and Chinese Calling Scale were used for data collecting, the latent profile of nurses' career calling was analyzed, and the influencing factors of different types of career calling were explored by Logistic regression. Results: The overall score of nurses' career calling was 37.74±7.93, which was categorized into four categories, including: occupational alienation type (5.8%), low-orientation type (22.7%), high-altruistic-contribution type (43.1%), and high-motivation type (28.4%). The regression analysis results showed that the average monthly income, job satisfaction, marital status, and work department were the influencing factors (P<0.05). Conclusion: Nurses' career calling is at a moderate to high level with heterogeneity. Nursing managers can provide corresponding supports for different categories.

Key words: nurse; career calling; Latent Profile Analysis; impact factor; cross-sectional survey