Occupational Stress and Turnover Intentions: Implication for Nursing Management

Occupational Stress and Turnover in Nursing

Abstract

Most of the time, individuals have to endure many kinds of occupational stressors at their workplaces that challenge their serene and skilled personalities, disturbing their aptitude. Therefore, a person may quit their employment, which is their turnover intention. Objective: To assess the occupational stress and turnover intention: implications for nursing management. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research study design was used. The study used a purposive sampling technique. The study population was staff nurses, and the sample size was 133. Results: The study reported that the occupational stress to the staff nurses in the field, those who mostly agreed were 70% and strongly agreed were 20%, and 10% were uncertain about stress in their working setup. Most staff nurses agreed that nurses leave their jobs and turn over to the next hospital, which was 80%, and strongly agreed 10%, and those nurses who compromise on the field were 10%. Conclusions: The study concluded that most nurses have high occupational stress and turnover intention. Therefore, it’s the responsibility of the management to provide a favourable or soothing environment by lowering workload and providing several staff nurses by the related departments, which helps the staff nurses to lower their occupation stress and thus limit turnover intentions in the hospital setup.