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| Factors influencing intentions of nursing personnel to leave employment in long-term care settings | | Author(s) | Loree C Francis-Felsen, Raymond T Coward, Tiffany L Hogan |
| Journal title | Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 15, no 4, December 1996 |
| Pages | pp 450-470 |
| Keywords | Nurses ; Care home staff ; Conditions of employment ; Job satisfaction ; Nursing homes ; Long term ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This US study examines factors associated with nurses' intentions to leave their present employment in a long-term care (LTC) setting. It examines differences in personal characteristics, job-specific characteristics, job satisfaction, and perceived job mobility of two groups of nurses currently employed in LTC: those who report they intend to stay at the nursing home where they are employed (n=147), and those who intend to leave (n=45). Nine out of twenty of the factors examined were statistically significantly associated with nurses' self-report of their intention to leave. Of the significant associations, seven were job-specific characteristics or dimensions of job satisfaction. The implications of these findings are that a significant majority of the factors influencing a nurse's intention to leave may be within the realm of control of nurse executives and nursing home administrators. Results are discussed within the context of three general areas where there may be opportunities for managers to take actions that will improve retention: how long a person had lived in the area; length of journey to work; and original intentions to stay at the time of appointment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980513221 A |
| Classmark | QTE: QRM: WKA: WL5: LHB: 4Q: 3F: 7T |
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