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‘Why nurses are leaving the profession … lack of support from managers’: What nurses from an e‐cohort study said
Author(s) -
Tuckett Anthony,
WintersChang Peta,
Bogossian Fiona,
Wood Michael
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12245
Subject(s) - cohort , pace , nursing , dialogic , economic shortage , work (physics) , medicine , value (mathematics) , qualitative research , health care , social support , psychology , social psychology , political science , sociology , government (linguistics) , mechanical engineering , pedagogy , linguistics , philosophy , social science , geodesy , machine learning , computer science , law , engineering , geography
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.