Impact of the transition shock and work environment on turnover intention among new nurses

Abstract

Objective To explore the impact of transition shock and work environment on turnover intention of new nurses, and to provide evidence for nursing management and intervention of new nurses. Methods From June to November 2016, 500 new nurses from one classⅢ grade A hospital of Heilongjiang province were selected as the research subject. A cross-sectional survey was used to investigate 500 new nurses with Turnover Intention Scale, Chinese Version of Perceived Nursing Work Environment Scale and new nurses' Transition Impact Rating Scale. The database was established by the method of double entry, and the data were analyzed with SPSS 20.0 software. Results The total score of turnover intention of 500 new nurses was (18.25±2.64) . The results of single factor analysis showed that there were significant differences in the scores of turnover intention of new nurses in different departments (P<0.05) ; The correlation analysis showed that social culture and development aspect, physical aspect were positively related to the turnover intention of new nurses (r=0.870, 0.812; P<0.001) . Human and material resources were negatively related to the turnover intention of new nurses in the perception of nursing work environment (P<0.001) . Multivariate Logistic regression analysis showed that in the transformation impact of new nurses, human and material resources in social culture and development, physical and working environment were the main factors of turnover intention of new nurses. Conclusions The turnover intention of new nurses is relatively high. Nursing managers can reduce the turnover rate of new nurses by improving the new nurses' transition shock and improving their work environment intervention, so as to reduce the job stress of new nurses. Key words: Nurses; Transition shock; Work environment; Turnover intention