Feng Danjun, Su Shan, Yang Yang, Xia Jinghua, Su Yonggang
School of Nursing, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Nurs Health Sci. 2017 Sep;19(3):388-392. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12357. Epub 2017 Jun 21.
Nurse turnover is one of the reasons for the global nurse shortage. Although previous studies have examined the determinants of turnover intention in detail, there is limited knowledge on the effect of subjective social status on nurse turnover intention. Therefore, in this study, we examined this relationship, including job satisfaction as a mediator, among Chinese nurses. This cross-sectional study employed questionnaires to assess subjective social status, job satisfaction, and turnover intention in 581 nurses who were randomly recruited from 10 hospitals in Jinan, China. The results partially supported our model. Although subjective social status exerted no significant direct effect on turnover intention, it exerted a significant indirect effect through job satisfaction. These results provide a new insight into why nurses leave their jobs, and possible new solutions to the nurse turnover problem. Efforts should be made to improve nurses' subjective social status.
护士离职是全球护士短缺的原因之一。尽管先前的研究已经详细考察了离职意愿的决定因素，但关于主观社会地位对护士离职意愿的影响，人们了解得还很有限。因此，在本研究中，我们在中国护士群体中考察了这种关系，其中将工作满意度作为一个中介变量。这项横断面研究采用问卷调查的方式，对从中国济南10家医院随机招募的581名护士的主观社会地位、工作满意度和离职意愿进行了评估。研究结果部分支持了我们的模型。尽管主观社会地位对离职意愿没有显著的直接影响，但它通过工作满意度产生了显著的间接影响。这些结果为护士离职原因提供了新的见解，也为解决护士离职问题提供了可能的新方案。应该努力提高护士的主观社会地位。
