Voluntary nurse turnover, which is costly and disrupts patient care, has not been studied as an organizational phenomenon within substance abuse treatment organizations. In this exploratory study, we examined the frequency and correlates of nurse turnover within treatment programs affiliated with the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. During face-to-face interviews conducted...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . BScN, MScN, PhD, Associate Professor, Nursing Care Research Center and School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected], [email protected] . (Corresponding author) BScN, MScOH, DrPH, Professor, Nursing Care Research C...

AIMS To investigate the mediating effect of work-to-family conflict on the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover intention among licensed nurses in long-term care settings. BACKGROUND The considerable research on turnover in long-term care has primarily focused on the impact of job satisfaction on turnover intention. Given the well-documented high turnover rate in nursing home st...

background and purpose: absence from work, quitting job and turnover of nursing staff put a great burden on any health care system in terms of hiring, training and maintaining nurses. studies suggest that those with higher job satisfaction are less likely to state being sick and indicate that there is a relationship between the nurses’ job satisfaction and their tendency to quit or ask for a tu...

PURPOSE This article reports on a randomized, controlled intervention study designed to reduce employee turnover by creating a retention specialist position in nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS We collected data three times over a 1-year period in 30 nursing homes, sampled in stratified random manner from facilities in New York State and Connecticut and randomly assigned to treatment and cont...

BACKGROUND Quality of work life (QWL) has been found to influence the commitment of health professionals, including nurses. However, reliable information on QWL and turnover intention of primary health care (PHC) nurses is limited. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between QWL and turnover intention of PHC nurses in Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was used i...

NC Med J March/April 2010, Volume 71, Number 2 Nationally, over 3 million certified nursing assistants and licensed nurses work in long-term care (LTC). Of these 3 million providers, about 2.5 million are certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and the remaining 500,000 licensed nurses are evenly divided between licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs).1 With the aging of our po...

BACKGROUND Staff turnover of professional nurses remains a concern for public and private hospitals management because it has an impact on the morale of nurses and it may also lead to poor patient care. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to explore and describe the experiences of nursing unit managers with regard to the turnover of professional nurses who were under their supervisio...