Figure 2 Mediation models for nurses’ professional values, nurses’ job satisfaction, and ethical hospital climate. NPVS-3 – Nurses Professional Values Scale-3; MSQ-SF – Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form; HECS – Hospital Ethical Climate Survey. a: the relationship between the ethical climate of the hospital (HECS) and the professional values of nurses (NPVS-3); b: the relationship between nurses’ professional values (NPVS-3) and job satisfaction (MSQ); c: the relationship between hospital ethical climate (HECS) and job satisfaction (MSQ); c’: the relationship between hospital ethical climate (HECS) and job satisfaction (MSQ) after adding nurses’ professional values (NPVS-3) as a mediator. * P<0.05; *** P<0.001; standardized coefficients. IBM SPSS Statistics software, version 29.