Table 1.
The results by variable and the differences between respondent groups in terms of the intention to leave the hospital or stay.
| Independent variables | Dependent variables | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | M (SD) | Leave the hospital YES M (SD) | Leave the hospital NO M (SD) | t (p) | |
| Burnout (ordinal 0–6) | |||||
| Emotional exhaustion | 931 | 23.62 (10.589) | 28.14 (9.479) | 18.90 (9.544) | 15.338 (<0.001) |
| Aspects of satisfaction (ordinal 1–4) | |||||
| Current job | 1.003 | 2.96 (0.733) | 2.64 (0.699) | 3.29 (0.616) | −15.427 (<0.001) |
| Decision to work in nursing | 988 | 2.89 (0.791) | 2.62 (0.748) | 3.11 (0.754) | −10.228 (<0.001) |
| Professional aspects of job (ordinal 1–4) | 790 | 2.73 (0.675) | 2.43 (0.630) | 3.05 (0.552) | −14.983 (<0.001) |
| Management and patient safety | |||||
| Management resolve problems in patient care that I report. (ordinal 1–4) | 998 | 2.57 (0.882) | 2.26 (0.865) | 2.89 (0.781) | −11.927 (<0.001) |
| Overall grade on patient safety in my department. (ordinal 1–5) | 999 | 3.54 (0.858) | 3.38 (0.897) | 3.70 (0.780) | −5861 (<0.001) |
| Overtime hours per month (continues) | 853 | 16.53 (15.237) | 18.70 (15.652) | 14.17 (14.359) | 4.367 (<0.001) |
| Quality of nursing care in department (ordinal 1–4) | 1005 | 3.03 (0.746) | 2.88 (0.790) | 3.19 (0.656) | −6.876 (<0.001) |
| Readiness of patients for discharge (ordinal 1–4) | 1004 | 2.87 (0.664) | 2.74 (0.706) | 3.01 (0.583) | −6.546 (<0.001) |
| Undone necessary activities (continues) | 1003 | 1.69 (0.244) | 1.66 (0.245) | 1.73 (0.233) | −4.958 (<0.001) |
[i] Note 1. n – Number of answers, M – Mean (4-point scale), SD – Standard deviation, t – t test, r – bivariate correlation coefficient, p -P-value. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
[ii] Note 2. The data on various aspects of the job have already been published (31).
Table 2.
Logistic regression model for intention to leave the hospital for nurses in internal medicine and surgery departments of Slovenian hospitals.
| “YES, I will leave the current hospital within a year because of job dissatisfaction.” | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | S.E. | Wald | df | Sig. | Exp(B) | 95% C.I. for EXP(B) | ||
| Lower | Upper | |||||||
| Satisfaction with current job | −1.020 | 0.265 | 14.874 | 1 | <0.001 | 0.361 | 0.215 | 0.605 |
| Management resolve problems in patient care | −0.604 | 0.155 | 15.181 | 1 | <0.001 | 0.547 | 0.403 | 0.741 |
| Overall grade on patient safety | 0.210 | 0.164 | 1.638 | 1 | 0.201 | 1.234 | 0.894 | 1.703 |
| Emotional exhaustion | 0.452 | 0.115 | 15.486 | 1 | <0.001 | 1.572 | 1.255 | 1.969 |
| Professional aspects of job | −0.919 | 0.230 | 15.972 | 1 | <0.001 | 0.399 | 0.254 | 0.626 |
| Age | −0.047 | 0.011 | 18.789 | 1 | <0.001 | 0.954 | 0.934 | 0.974 |
| Overtime hours per month | 0.021 | 0.007 | 8.047 | 1 | 0.005 | 1.021 | 1.007 | 1.037 |
| Decision to work in nursing | −0.317 | 0.166 | 3.626 | 1 | 0.057 | 0.729 | 0.526 | 1.009 |
| Quality of nursing care in department | 0.060 | 0.190 | 0.101 | 1 | 0.750 | 1.062 | 0.732 | 1.541 |
| Readiness of patients for discharge | −0.002 | 0.194 | 0.000 | 1 | 0.992 | 0.998 | 0.682 | 1.460 |
| Undone necessary activities | 0.262 | 0.297 | 0.774 | 1 | 0.379 | 1.299 | 0.725 | 2.327 |
| Constant | 7.020 | 1.280 | 30.071 | 1 | <0.001 | 1119.11 | ||