title: Nurse residency graduates' commitment to their first positions.
abstract: Between 27% and 53% of new graduates change jobs during the first year of work. One program to address this issue is a national nurse residency program, in which the University of Kansas Hospital has enrolled new graduates since 2003. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among job satisfaction, reasons for staying, and satisfaction with the nurse residency program to job commitment and retention of nurses who completed the program.
authors: University of Kansas Hospital, and University of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA. rsetter@kumc.edu
authors: Robyn
authors: R
authors: Setter
authors: Marci
authors: M
authors: Walker
authors: Lynne M
authors: LM
authors: Connelly
authors: Tammy
authors: T
authors: Peterman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009042:Motivation; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011594:Psychometrics; D013192:Staff Development / Q000379:methods*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D055815:Young Adult