Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: Nurse Burnout & Turnover Intentions

摘要

Despite both the practical and academic significance of burnout in nursing, relatively few studies have examined the relationship between burnout in nurses and turnover intentions. Although there is emerging evidence that burnout in nurses is associated with turnover intentions, the literature has been virtually silent on the process that underlies their relationship. Understanding the process underpinning the relationship between burnout in nurses and turnover intentions is critical because as it may help organizations develop interventions and strategies for relief that reduce and eliminate burnout's prevalence in the workplace and which ultimately curtail nurse turnover. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to advance the burnout and healthcare literatures by articulating and testing a process model wherein nurse burnout leads to turnover intentions.