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(HealthDay News) — Nurses primarily end health care employment due to systemic features of their employer, according to a study published online April 9 in JAMA Network Open.
K. Jane Muir, PhD, RN, from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues examined the top contributing factors to registered nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021 in New York and Illinois. The analysis included survey responses from 7,887 nurses who recently ended healthcare employment after a mean of 30.8 years.
The researchers found that planned retirement was the leading factor (39%), but nurses also cited burnout or emotional exhaustion (26%), insufficient staffing (21%), and family obligations (18%) as other...
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