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How organisational commitment influences nurses’ intention to stay in nursing throughout their career

BACKGROUND: The current COVID 19 pandemic brings into sharp focus the global necessity of having sufficient numbers of nurses and the dire impacts of nursing shortages throughout health systems in many countries. In 2020 retaining skilled experienced nurses continues to be a major global challenge....

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Autores principales: Bell, Mary, Sheridan, Ann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7548084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33073251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2020.100007
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description BACKGROUND: The current COVID 19 pandemic brings into sharp focus the global necessity of having sufficient numbers of nurses and the dire impacts of nursing shortages throughout health systems in many countries. In 2020 retaining skilled experienced nurses continues to be a major global challenge. The dominant and consistent concentration of workforce research to date has focused on attitudinal factors including job satisfaction and burnout and there is limited research on how organisational commitment in combination with job satisfaction and burnout may explain what keeps nurses in nursing. OBJECTIVES: To measure how organisational commitment in combination with job satisfaction and burnout relate to the intention of Registered General Nurses’ staying in nursing (ITSN). DESIGN & METHODS: A quantitative descriptive design using a cross-sectional survey was utilised. A national postal survey of a representative sample of registered general nurses employed within the Republic of Ireland (ROI) health services was undertaken in 2010. A number of established valid and reliable instruments were used to measure attitudinal factors and their relationship with intention to stay (ITSN). Data were analysed using IBM SPSS version 24.0 and descriptive, correlational and multiple regression analysis were undertaken. RESULTS: A total of 756 registered nurses participated in this study. The strongest predictor of intention to stay in nursing was organisational commitment (β=0.32, p=.000) while burnout and job satisfaction had a significant relationship with ITSN. CONCLUSION: Results reveal the complex and multidimensional nature of ITSN with the majority of nurses having a strong intention to stay in nursing. Organisational commitment and low burnout represented predictors which are influential in nurses remaining in nursing throughout their career lifespan. These results remain relevant in 2020 particularly in light of the ongoing pandemic when retention and recruitment of skilled and experienced nurses to the workforce will be critical to the management of health care, considering the increased nurse vacancy rates in many countries and the evident lack of resolution of the issues raised from this study.
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spelling pubmed-75480842020-10-13 How organisational commitment influences nurses’ intention to stay in nursing throughout their career Bell, Mary Sheridan, Ann Int J Nurs Stud Adv Article BACKGROUND: The current COVID 19 pandemic brings into sharp focus the global necessity of having sufficient numbers of nurses and the dire impacts of nursing shortages throughout health systems in many countries. In 2020 retaining skilled experienced nurses continues to be a major global challenge. The dominant and consistent concentration of workforce research to date has focused on attitudinal factors including job satisfaction and burnout and there is limited research on how organisational commitment in combination with job satisfaction and burnout may explain what keeps nurses in nursing. OBJECTIVES: To measure how organisational commitment in combination with job satisfaction and burnout relate to the intention of Registered General Nurses’ staying in nursing (ITSN). DESIGN & METHODS: A quantitative descriptive design using a cross-sectional survey was utilised. A national postal survey of a representative sample of registered general nurses employed within the Republic of Ireland (ROI) health services was undertaken in 2010. A number of established valid and reliable instruments were used to measure attitudinal factors and their relationship with intention to stay (ITSN). Data were analysed using IBM SPSS version 24.0 and descriptive, correlational and multiple regression analysis were undertaken. RESULTS: A total of 756 registered nurses participated in this study. The strongest predictor of intention to stay in nursing was organisational commitment (β=0.32, p=.000) while burnout and job satisfaction had a significant relationship with ITSN. CONCLUSION: Results reveal the complex and multidimensional nature of ITSN with the majority of nurses having a strong intention to stay in nursing. Organisational commitment and low burnout represented predictors which are influential in nurses remaining in nursing throughout their career lifespan. These results remain relevant in 2020 particularly in light of the ongoing pandemic when retention and recruitment of skilled and experienced nurses to the workforce will be critical to the management of health care, considering the increased nurse vacancy rates in many countries and the evident lack of resolution of the issues raised from this study. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7548084/ /pubmed/33073251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnsa.2020.100007 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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