Factors Affecting Nurse Turnover

The exit rate of RNs, under the age of 30, in Canada from 2005 and 2008 is between 11.58% and 14.51% with an estimated mean of 13% (CIHI, 2010). This further increases pressure on the fiscal deficits, financial pressure, aging populations and increasing patient acuity (Chachula et al, 2015). Newly graduated nurses lack jobs satisfaction and are likely to seek alternative employment. One primary cause is due to exhaustion and burnout, which attributes to a nurse’s intention to change job roles. Suzuki et al (2010) states that new graduates that entered nursing felt more burnout and were likely to leave their positions approximately 10-15 months; 9.7% of participants indicated they wished to leave their profession. Also, the lateral violence from their co-worker or horizontal violence from managers and physicians that the newly graduate RNs encounter fuels for most RNs to leave their workplace. 75-85% of nurses may have experienced bullying during their career (chachula, 2015). Such oppressions erodes the professional image of the nurse, degrades patient outcomes and impacts trust among health care team; it furthermore diminishes confidence and self esteem in newly graduated nurse. Thus, newly graduates who experience dissatisfaction within their workplace are likely to seek alternative employment, which increases further …show more content…
Factors like constraining workplace and health care system; negotiating social relationship, hierarchy and troublesome behaviors; facing fears, traumas and challenges; and weighing competing rewards and tensions made nurses withdraw from their nursing identities (chachula et al, 2015). Also, rigid, strained and non-responsive health care system, high patient workload and cutbacks all contribute to the crisis of nursing shortage. As evidenced by, a study shows quitting their profession provided some-self actualization and felt they made the right decision (Lavoie-Tremblay et al,