Nurse Turnover In Nursing

Introduction To become a registered nurse, you go through grueling training and studying. It takes time, effort, dedication, a couple breakdowns, and calling. It would be assumed that an individual going through all of this struggle and work to get those two influential letters behind their name would never think to turn away from the profession once finally achieving the role that such commitment was given to. Unfortunately, no one can prepare an eager R.N. graduate for the journey they are about to take. It comes down to the individual and their evaluation and interpretation of factors that lessen their motivation and task value in the profession they only thought would bring satisfaction and gratitude. Many nurses quit each year for numerous reasons to the point that nursing retention ideas
have become an enormous conscious effort employed in healthcare systems.
That is a lot of brilliance and money walking away from an endlessly needing profession. This research paper serves to shed light on a few factors that may contribute to nursing turnover and ways to promote nursing retention.
Nursing turnover and back pain The study, “Backing out: nurse wastage associated with back pain,” serves as an eye opener to the percentage of nurses that leave the profession because of back pain and ranks it among other reasons to give perspective. The study was designed by distributing to all nurse leavers during the termination interview within 15 District Health Authorities throughout England, a questionnaire with a purpose to gain information regarding “1) Long-term re-employment
plans; 2) Reason for leaving present employment; 3) Brief personal and current employment details” ( 326). The sample used was nurse leavers being any community and hospital employed nurse of any grade and specialty. This study was conducted over an eight month period. The following content is based on results from the leaver’s questionnaire. The results of the population characteristics identified that 80.1% of the nurses claimed to work full time which is defined as 37.5 hours or more per week and the mean age was 29.8 and a median of 25.4 ( 330). Based on the position/grade results determining the most frequent nursing position leaving the profession at 26.3% of all nurse leavers was the staff nurse ( 330). The highest percentage of the specialty of the leaver’s last post was acute with 59.9% of all leavers (331). Finally, nurse leavers had to indicate their reason for leaving based on the list provided as well as providing intentions to come back to the profession or leave for good. The percentage of those planning to come back to the profession at some point was 81.5% with 13.6% planning to leave for good ( 330). With only 3.5% of the total percentage, back pain was not the number one or most common reason for leaving the profession. However, “45.7% of these planned to leave active nursing for good which is significantly more than the rest of the respondents” (331). There was a mean age of 41.2 for those planning to leave due to back pain and 29.4 was the mean age for all other 18 categories (331).