title: Nurses' intentions to leave nursing in Finland.
abstract: The shortage of nurses is a problem in many countries. We examined how factors related to wage, work, job satisfaction/dissatisfaction, and workplace or demographic factors were associated with nurses' intentions to switch from health care to non-health-care roles. Wage and share of income from shift work were negatively and statistically significantly related to nurses' intention to leave the health care sector. However, some non-pecuniary variables, such as Possibility for Specialisation gained a positive, statistically significant association with job satisfaction and thereby decreased intention to change work sector. Therefore, not only economic factors influence the labour supply of nurses.
authors.affiliation: Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, 33014 Tampere, Finland. terhi.kankaanranta@uta.fi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kankaanranta
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rissanen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009726:Nurses / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires