目的 了解三级医院离职护士的职业生涯高原感受及可能原因.方法 采用半结构式访谈法,对9名因职业生涯发展受限而离职的临床护士进行访谈,探究其职业生涯发展受限的感受和可能原因,采用内容分析法对访谈资料进行分析和主题的提取.结果 离职护士职业生涯发展受限的感受和归因可以概括为2个主题、4个子主题,其感受包括对当前工作的失望和对未来职业发展的迷茫,而其归因主要包括个人需求未得到满足和感觉组织支持的缺失.结论 护士离职前有强烈的职业生涯高原感受和经历,进而在临床工作中产生一系列负面情绪.建立清晰的职业发展路径和多维度的组织支持,有助于减少职业生涯高原问题的发生,从而减少护士离职.“,”Objectives:This study seeks to understand the experiences of nurses who resigned because of limited available career development opportunities and of the possible reasons for their resignation.Methods:Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine clinical nurses who experienced limi-tations in the development of their careers and consequently left their jobs to elicit their feelings and reasons for leaving.The content analysis was used to analyze the interview data.Results:Two themes and four subthemes relating to the experiences and attributions of former nurses were identified.Nurses who experienced career plateau were disappointed with the current work and uncertainty about the future.The attribution of career plateau lies in unsatisfied personal needs and the absence of organizational support.Conclusions:Nurses had strong career plateau experiences before they left,and it caused a series of negative feelings in their practice.Establish a clear career development path and multi-dimensional support from the organization may be helpful to reduce the occurrence of career plateau,thus increasing the retention of nurses.