Intention to Stay or Leave: How job resources and demands and hospital work environments impact recently graduated hospital nurses’ intentions to leave.’

Abstract

The healthcare sector in the Netherlands is facing a shortage of nursing staff with hospitals, in particular, struggling to retain nurses. There is a need for recently graduated nurses to provide high-quality care and filling the shortages in the workforce. However, research has indicated that retaining nurses poses a challenge, as a significant number expressed intentions to leave the profession within the first few years of employment. Therefore, this study highlights hospital nurses’ perspectives regarding job resources and demands, as well as the role of the hospital work environment.