High and Middle Aged Nurses' Job Retention and Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify certain decision-making factors for job retention as they relate to and affect job satisfaction, and to investigate ways to support job retention.
Methods: Questionnaires were distributed to 1,064 nurses who work at general hospitals of 200–700 beds. This study focused on nurses who are in high and middle aged nurses. A total of 223 nurses participated in the study. For total data, t-tests and multiple regression were used for analysis.
Results: 56 nurses (25.1%) of the participating who worked at hospitals did not want to continue working at the same hospital. There were two factors affecting job satisfaction: organizational and professional. In the organizational factors, the care delivery system was the strongest, followed by pay, working conditions, general health and safety, relationships among colleagues and the feeling of belonging to one's own ward. In the professional factor, their creativity and burnout were affected.
Conclusions: The study would like to suggest to nursing administrators of high and mid-career nurses to support good relationships among colleagues in a working environment in order to maintain job retention. After all, the improvement of nurses' working conditions is an important role of nursing administrators.