Abstract: Objective: To describe the current status of career plateau for senior nurses and analyze its influencing factors. Methods: The convenience sampling method was used and nurses with working age≥5 years in 6 tertiary hospitals in Beijing were recruited from September to December 2019 and administered general questionnaire and career plateau survey questionnaire. Results: A total of 2,680 questionnaires were collected. The overall incidence rate of nurse career plateau was 34.0%, the highest incidence rate of hierarchical plateau was 53.8%, the incidence rate of centralized plateau dimension was 36.7%, and the lowest incidence rate was 15.6% on the content plateau dimension. Logistic regression results showed that age, employment nature, working department, professional title, position, whether she/he was a specialist nurse, life satisfaction were the influencing factors of the career plateau. Conclusion: About one third of senior nurses in six tertiary hospitals in Beijing have career plateau. This study provides the basis for multi-dimensional coping strategies, helps to do the nurses' career management in terms of promotion, professional development and life satisfaction according to nurses of different employment nature and departments, and helps to reduce the incidence rate of nurse career plateau.

Key words: nurse, senior, career plateau