Influence Factors Of Job Satisfaction And Turnover Intention Of ICU Nurses And Their Interaction Process

Background:The shortage of nurses has become a threat of global healthproblems.The mobility of nurses is high,and the job satisfaction of nurses is lowwhich make the loss of nurses.Domestic studes usually on evaluation of nurses arepoorly get targeted in such studies,although their job attribute deserves more attention.Objective:To evaluate the job satisfaction level of the ICU nurses, understand the realexperience and reflection of ICU, job satisfaction, and turnover intention, and makesense of influence factors and their interaction process.Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are applied to achievethe goal described above..Results: The level of ICU nurse's job satisfaction is low, high working pressure,heavy work load, and unique work condition are the major affect factors. The turnoverintention is effected not only by job satisfaction ,but also by nurse's own individualcharacteristic.Conclusion: The relationship between ICU nurses' job satisfaction and their turnoverintention could be (l)high job satisfaction with low turnover intention; (2) low jobsatisfaction with high turnover intention; and (3) low satisfaction with low turnoverintention. From this, we could conclude that the relations between nurses' jobsatisfaction and their turnover intention might solely depend on nurses' individualcharacteristic.