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(HealthDay News) — Despite high self-reports of resiliency, many nurses intend to leave the career, according to a study published online June 14 in BMC Health Services Research.
Saija Sihvola, from University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio, and colleagues conducted an online survey of 437 registered nurses to assess nurses’ resilience, job satisfaction, intentions to leave and quality of care.
The researchers found that the nurses had a mean resiliency score of 3.92. More nurses had considered leaving nursing during the pandemic (16%) than before (2%). The mean score of requiring factors of the work was 2.56, while the mean overall job satisfaction score was 5.8.
Resilience affected nurses’ job satisfaction, which also influenced...
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