Nurses in long-term care who feel engaged in the workplace and proud of what they do appear less likely to leave their jobs and have an easier time accepting a lower salary, finds a study by Chinese researchers published in Contemporary Nurse.
The researchers surveyed more than 1,200 nurses working at nursing homes in 27 cities across China about their job fulfilment, job autonomy, feelings of burnout, pay satisfaction and whether or not they planned to change jobs in the next year.
Results also showed that those who felt more fulfilled in their roles as caregivers were less likely to experience job burnout or indicate plans to leave their jobs.
“This research suggests that more attention should be paid to instilling nursing students’ nursing values, altruism and identification with and commitment to their profession, as a way to help better prepare nurses to deal with job burnout in professional practice,” the authors wrote. They add that increasing autonomy, creating more advancement opportunities, ensuring reasonable workload and moderating work stress may also help reduce nurse burnout and turnover levels.
From the August 2019 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
