Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Study: Job dissatisfaction causes RNs to leave the profession
Workplace dissatisfaction is a key reason why many nurses are leaving the profession for retirement or other careers, according to a study that used data from a survey of more than 35,000 nurses nationwide. More than 27% of non-working RNs cited stressful work environments, 23.4% cited physical demands, 20% inadequate staffing and 20% inconvenient work schedules. The study found 4.2% of the 2.9 million RNs in the U.S. were working at non-nursing jobs and 12.1% weren't working at all. Click here to read more.
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with all due respect, job dissatisfaction is the reason MOST people leave their jobs... i'm surprised they needed to do a study to figure that one out!!!
Yes, academics do often study the obvious. But then, what is signifcant here is not that RNs are leaving their JOBS due to dissatisfaction, but that they are leaving their PROFESSION.
RN's are probably leaving the profession due to lack of respect for what we do, the physical demands of the job and the toll it takes on our bodies, working weekends, holidays...I could go on and on. I love being a nurse and I love taking care of patients but after 20 years in the profession I don't see things getting better. We are expected to do more with less. If I had to do it over again I would be a teacher.
I have been a nurse since 1994 and have seen the ugly head of politics be the standard by which nurses are judged. The paperwork seems to be the most important part of our job-not if we assessed our patient and started an intervention to restore health-not if we car about our patients-not if we do more with less. The world of nursing has changed drmatically in the last 10 years-I'm out of here. I would like to work in a profession where you are judged on the quality of work-not if you filled every piece of paper in correctly.Elaine S
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