الرسائل الجامعية
لقسم إدارة التمريض
تاريخ النشر 2021
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JOB SATISFACTION AND THE TURNOVER INTENTION AMONG NURSES WORKING IN PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN JORDAN
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Bissan Mohammad Mahmoud
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Background: Around current global shortage of nurses, it is important to stabilize the nursing workforce. Turnover is one of the main contributors to the shortage problem. Nurses’ job satisfaction has been found to be related to intention to leave.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between job satisfaction and turn over intention through Jordanian nurses working in public hospitals.
Methods: Descriptive, correlational cross-sectional design was used. Data were collected through online survey distributed to 436 registered Jordanian nurses working in three governmental hospitals during April to June. A sample of 120 nurses completed the study. Data collection was performed using the Demographic Questionnaire, the Job Satisfaction Scale (JSS), and the six-item Turnover Intention Scale (TIS-6). Descriptive statistics were used to describe the characteristics of the study participants.
To examine the differences in the scores of job satisfaction and intention to leave based on the demographic variables an independent-samples t-test was and one way - ANOVA test was used. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationship between job satisfaction and intention to leave among Jordanian nurses in the
governmental hospitals. Multiple linear regression analysis was employed to determine predictor variables of the Nurses’ job Satisfaction on Turnover Intention.
Results: The sample included 74.2% females and 25.8% males. There was a significant moderate negative relationship between nurses’ job satisfaction, and turn over intention (r = 0.453, P.<0.05). However, among all job satisfaction subscales, only supervision subscale (βi= -0.239, p =.045) and the Fringe Benefits subscale (βi= -0.336 , p =.032) was a unique significant predictor of nursing turnover intention. Also there was a statistically significant negative effect of the Accredited hospital on Turn Over Intention in (βi= -0.197, p =.042).
Conclusions: The results revealed that nursing job satisfaction is negativly associated with nurses, turnover intention. Effective job satisfaction in the workplace is expected to decrease nursing turnover intention, which in turn improves nurse job satisfaction is a mechanism through which future interventions could enhance working conditions and promote better nurse retention.
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