AIM To analyse the impact of six job characteristics on the intention of nurses to leave their organization, specifically focusing on long-term care settings: nursing homes, care homes and home care. BACKGROUND When nurses leave their organization, this can negatively affect organizational performance. Organizations have to recruit new nurses and tacit knowledge is lost. Furthermore, organiza...

BACKGROUND High levels of stress and the challenges of meeting the complex needs of critically ill children and their families can threaten job satisfaction and cause turnover in nurses. OBJECTIVE To explore the influences of nurses' attributes, unit characteristics, and elements of the work environment on the job satisfaction of nurses in pediatric critical care units and to determine stress...

Introduction: Nursing is highly demanding and stressful profession. Negative consequences of job demands were widely discussed throughout the literature like; poor quality of care, poor health, burnout, greater intent to leave and lower level of job satisfaction. Job dissatisfaction among nurses also has been discussed exhaustively in the literature in regards to its negative outcomes represent...

Benchmarking expedites the quest for best practices and is crucial to hospitals' effective, reliable, and superior performance. Comparative performance data are used by accrediting and regulatory bodies to evaluate performance and by consumers in making decisions on where to seek healthcare. Nursing-sensitive quality measures affirmed by the National Quality Forum are now used in public reporti...

NURSING ECONOMIC$/November-December 2010/Vol. 28/No. 6 I N 1999, CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL Los Angeles (CHLA) found itself in the position of many hospitals today; despite much effort and expense to provide an inhouse internship for new graduate nurses, the results were disappointing. Turnover was high; 36% of the new graduates hired at CHLA were leaving in less than a year and 56% within 2 years. Th...

OBJECTIVE To develop a proposal for a nursing panel of indicators based on the guiding principles of Balanced Scorecard. METHOD A single case study that ranked 200 medical records of patients, management reports and protocols, which are capable of generating indicators. RESULTS We identified 163 variables that resulted in 72 indicators; of these, 32 nursing-related: two financial indicators...

PURPOSE This study describes the creation and use of a web-based resource, designed to help nursing homes implement quality improvements through changes in staffing characteristics. DESIGN AND METHODS Information on staffing characteristics (i.e., staffing levels, turnover, stability, and use of agency staff), facility characteristics (e.g., ownership, size), and quality (i.e., quality measur...

This study seeks to investigate the employment intention and death anxiety of undergraduate nursing students post-internships, create a foundation for enhancing their job diminishing staff turnover. The method applied in this paper is convenience sampling method, investigated status interns tertiary hospital through questionnaire survey. research results demonstrate that 158 233 are eager take ...

BACKGROUND Nursing home patients have complex mental and physical health problems, disabilities and social needs, combined with widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs. Preservation of their quality of life is an important goal. This can only be achieved within nursing homes that offer competent clinical conditions of treatment and care. COmmunication, Systematic assessment and treatment ...