BACKGROUND Nurses leaving their jobs and the profession are an issue of international concern, with supply-demand gaps for nurses reported to be widening. There is a large body of existing literature, much of which is already in review form. In order to advance the usefulness of the literature for nurse and human resource managers, we undertook an overview (review of systematic reviews). The ai...

A conflict between one’s professional life and one’s family life may lead to lower well-being both at work and home. Most nurses are women who have traditionally reconciled their professional life with family life. One aim of this study was to examine the relationships between the work-family conflict (WFC), the family-work conflict (FWC), and the perception of job demands (quantitative workloa...

Burnout is construed as a phenomenon occurring among professionals who work with people , and as a result raises serious problems for human service workers, especially hospital nurses. Nurses’ burnout, known to be related to age and working years, can have an adverse impact on nurses’ development and the quality of care in medical institutes . In the Maslach Burnout Inventory—General Survey (MB...

Background: Poland has lower ratios of employed registered nurses per 1,000 inhabitants than the EU average. Polish nurses work under miserable conditions without assisting personnel, and they reconcile their professional demands with responsibilities for their families; 96% of them are women. Rationale/Aims: This study uses Hobfoll's conservation of resources (CORs) theory to explain the role ...

BACKGROUND Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is an important bacterial cause of life-threatening illness among the elderly. Public health officials investigated a protracted GAS outbreak in a skilled nursing facility in Georgia housing patients requiring 24-hour nursing or rehabilitation, to prevent additional cases. METHODS We defined a case as illness in a skilled nursing facility resident with o...

<p>Turnover exacerbates the global nursing shortage; loss of skilled and expert nurses has a negative impact on patient outcomes. The study examined influence job satisfaction, work environment, leadership styles, organizational commitment work-family support actual turnover among working in hospital Indonesia. A cross-sectional survey was carried out Jakarta, sample this who leave jobs f...

BACKGROUND New graduates report intense stress during the transition from school to their first work settings. Managing this transition is important to reduce turnover rates. This study compared the effects of an externship program and a corporate-academic cooperation program on enhancing junior college students' nursing competence and retention rates in the first 3 months and 1 year of initial...