Nurse Turnover
A shortage of nurses and high turnover rates are common in Taiwan's healthcare industry, and few studies seem to have investigated the psychological factors associated with nurse retention. In fact, it appears that hospitals often provide education in medicine and medical humanities to nurses in order to increase psychological satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that influence the retention of nursing staff in their jobs in relation to different levels of needs, and to investigate whether medical humanities education is associated with the retention of nursing staff.
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A self-administered questionnaire was used to survey nurses working in northern Taiwan, and the design of the questionnaire was based on the six levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
Participation was voluntary, participants signed an informed consent document, and the self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a total of 759 participants and returned for 729 participants (96.04% response rate). Logistic regression analysis was used to estimate the influence of older adults on nurse-reported intention to stay after adjusting for nurse characteristics (gender and age).
Results.
Pearson correlation analysis revealed that nurses' willingness to continue working was moderately correlated with "physical needs," "safety needs," "love and belonging needs," and "respect needs.It was also found to be highly correlated with "needs for self-actualization" and "needs related to education in the medical humanities.
The odds ratio for retention of nurses with less than one year of service (OR = 4.511, P = .002) was significantly higher than those with one to three years of service (OR = 3.248, P = .003) and those with five to ten years of work experience.
In conclusion, it is stated that the educational program described in the beginning of the study may not be working well and the system to accept nurses should be strengthened.
Chiao, LH., Wu, CF., Tzeng, IS. et al. Exploring factors influencing the retention of nurses in a religious hospital in Taiwan: a cross-sectional quantitative study. BMC Nurs 20, 42 (2021). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-021-00558-7
Summary
The highest relevance of what is required for nurse retention was found to be the enforcement of educational programs to achieve self-actualization, which is whether the educational programs are satisfactory after recruitment. In Taiwan, the country where the study was conducted, it was stated in the paper that new graduates were given the opportunity to apply for an education program or not.
I thought this might be difficult to imagine, but in some osteopathic clinics, there are times when there is only a few hours of recreation and the rest of the time is spent learning on the job. I think the content is probably similar to that.Next on the list were "working hours" and "salary," followed by whether or not the needs for "physical, psychological, and physiological needs" could be met.
The study concluded that salary is not the most important reason for frequent resignations, and that the most important reasons are a sense of accomplishment, appropriate relationships with co-workers, and an ethically protected workplace.
This is something that is hard to find in job magazines and job brokers, so what better way to find out than to go out and check it out for yourself? The only way to be sure is to go to a job search review site and see if there are any complaints about the items mentioned above.
