Work environment issues and intention-to-leave in Portuguese nurses: A cross-sectional study

Health Policy

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1584-1592

  Leone, Claudia ^a   Bruyneel, Luk ^b   Anderson, Janet E ^a   Murrells, Trevor ^a   Dussault, Gilles ^c   Henriques de Jesus, Élvio ^d   Sermeus, Walter ^b   Aiken, Linda ^e   Rafferty, Anne Marie ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^d CBQF CENTRO DE BIOTECNOLOGIA E QUÍMICA FINA LABORATÓRIO ASSOCIADO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Health workforce; Intention to leave; Nurses; Opportunities for career advancement; Portugal; Retention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAREER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NURSE; NURSING UNIT; REGISTERED NURSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SATISFACTION; TURNOVER TIME; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; BEHAVIOR; CAREER MOBILITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER MOBILITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INTENTION; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PORTUGAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84951064256     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2015.09.006     Document Type: Article

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