Effects of External Employment Opportunities, Nursing Professionalism, and Nursing Work Environments on Korean Hospital Nurses' Intent to Stay or Leave

This study aims to explore Korean Hospital nurses' intent to stay or leave their working environment, and to identify the difference between the intent to stay and the intent to leave by identifying the relationship between external employment opportunities, professionalism, and work environmen...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 20; no. 5; p. 4026
Main Authors Lee, Mi-Aie, Lim, So-Hee
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 24.02.2023
MDPI
Subjects
Analysis
Employee turnover
Employment
Hospitals
Humans
Intention
Job Satisfaction
Multiple regression analysis
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing Staff, Hospital
Professional workers
Professionalism
Republic of Korea
Surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
Variables
Work environment
Working Conditions
Republic of Korea
South Korea
employment opportunity
nurses
nursing work environment
Korea
intention
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Summary:This study aims to explore Korean Hospital nurses' intent to stay or leave their working environment, and to identify the difference between the intent to stay and the intent to leave by identifying the relationship between external employment opportunities, professionalism, and work environment. Data were collected via an online survey and analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis. As a result of the analysis, the intent to stay among Korean hospital nurses was influenced by the work environment, external employment opportunities, education level, and marital status, whereas the intent to leave was influenced by the nursing work environment, marital status, and total clinical experience. As a result, the reflected variables differed. Thus, it can be concluded that hospital nurses' intent to either stay or leave are not concepts that simply contradict each other in the same context but are, in fact, influenced differently by various factors. Nevertheless, it can also be concluded that nursing managers should make efforts to improve the nursing work environment to lower nurses' intent to leave and increase their intent to stay by improving only the nursing work environment.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph20054026