Staff nurses’ intention to leave nursing profession and their organizational commitment in selected hospitals at Beni-Sueif city

The quality of work life and turnover intentions among Malaysian nurses: the mediating role of organizational commitment

“…Additionally, the third hypothesis showed a significant and negative correlation between OC and TI. Similar results were reported by Ahmed et al The organizational commitment had a statistically significant reverse correlation with the nurses' intention of turnover their profession [16]. Mothoa and Lee et al mentioned that organizational commitment is a statistically significant predictor of intention for turnover (P < .05) [17,28].…”

“…These results were consistent with previous studies confirming that by increasing quality of work life (QWL), the commitment to organization will increase [ 13 – 15 ]. In addition, the studies performed by Ahmad et al and Lee et al mentioned that organizational commitment has a reverse correlation with turnover intention [ 8 , 16 ]. This means that the commitment of employees to their organization by satisfaction and accepting working environment conditions (job demands) will decrease turnover intention.…”

Factors Influencing Nurses’ Intention to Leave and Intention to Stay: An Integrative Review

“…Administrators or managers must give attention to factors that significantly affect nurses' intention to leave to reduce or minimize nurse turnover and increase the nurses' retention. 1,10,15 The current review also showed that research was inconsistent with respect to the correlation between some personal factors such as age and intention to leave. In other words, issues important for a specific age group of nurses in one country may not be as much important for nurses of the same age group in another country.…”

“…17,36 In the qualitative studies different types of interview were used semistructure interview, 42 structured interview, 39 one to one in depth interview, 40,41 face to face interview, 43 and open-end questions. 44,45 Most of the studies were carried out in the USA (10), other studies were undertaken in Canada (4), Jordan (3), Malaysia (4), and South Africa (2). One study from Egypt, Kurdistan, Iran, Turkey, Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, Namibia, Colorado, Italy, Australia, and Lebanon.…”

“…The review indicated that there was relationship between organizational commitment, a job satisfaction, and intention to leave. 1 On the other hand, negative correlation between organizational commitment and anticipate leaving the nursing profession was reported by Ahmed et al 10 The staff nurses had a higher intention to leave their hospital and the profession and had a moderate level of total organizational commitment. 1 In addition, motivation been reported to be positively associated with commitment and negatively predicts intention to quit the organization.…”