‘Why nurses are leaving the profession … lack of support from managers’: What nurses from an e‐cohort study said

The shortage of nurses is known. We explored nurses' reasons for leaving the profession based on responses from an e‐newsletter of the N urses and M idwives e‐cohort S tudy. Qualitative content analysis of data from email responses ( n  = 66) showed ‘Lack of support’ as a social work value describing their manager's lack of support, unsupportive relationships within their work group, and a health‐care system putting business principles before care resulting in job dissatisfaction and nurse turnover. These findings are examples of a ‘complex'/‘wicked’ problem and as such will resist simple solutions to the presenting issues. The dialogic process such as O pen S pace T echnology and T alking C ircles should be considered as potentially suitable to the needs of nurses.