DETERMINANTS OF INTENTION TO LEAVE AMONG HOSPITAL REGISTERED NURSES.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Psychology, Industrial.
Description: The purpose of this study was to describe intention to leave among hospital registered nurses and to explore its relationship to commitment, job satisfaction, kinship responsibility, primary nursing assignment, opportunity, and other variables. A total of 550 questionnaires was distributed to all medical-surgical registered nurses at three major metropolitan hospitals in a mid-Atlantic state. Two-hundred eighty questionnaires were returned with a 51 percent response rate. Correlation coefficient and multiple regression were performed to analyze the data.

The results revealed that commitment, opportunity, job knowledge, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, and kinship responsibility were the major predictors of intention to leave. Other results included that young, highly educated, and less experienced nurses had more intention to leave than other groups. Job satisfaction was negatively correlated with intention to leave, but it was not among the major predictors. There was no relationship between pay or primary nursing assignment and intention to leave.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-05, Section: B, page: 1622.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1987.

School code: 0178.