Effects of External Employment Opportunities, Nursing Professionalism, and Nursing Work Environments on Korean Hospital Nurses’ Intent to Stay or Leave

Mi-Aie Lee and So-Hee Lim ()
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Mi-Aie Lee: Nursing Department, Nursing School, Dongguk University, Gyeongji-si 38066, Republic of Korea
So-Hee Lim: Department of Nursing, Kyungmin University, Uijeongbu-si 11618, Republic of Korea

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-12

Abstract: This study aims to explore Korean Hospital nurses’ intent to stay or leave their working environment, and to identify the difference between the intent to stay and the intent to leave by identifying the relationship between external employment opportunities, professionalism, and work environment. Data were collected via an online survey and analyzed using stepwise multiple regression analysis. As a result of the analysis, the intent to stay among Korean hospital nurses was influenced by the work environment, external employment opportunities, education level, and marital status, whereas the intent to leave was influenced by the nursing work environment, marital status, and total clinical experience. As a result, the reflected variables differed. Thus, it can be concluded that hospital nurses’ intent to either stay or leave are not concepts that simply contradict each other in the same context but are, in fact, influenced differently by various factors. Nevertheless, it can also be concluded that nursing managers should make efforts to improve the nursing work environment to lower nurses’ intent to leave and increase their intent to stay by improving only the nursing work environment.

Keywords: employment opportunity; intention; nursing work environment; nurses; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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