Health Care : Current Reviews

Abstract

The Relationship between Head-Nurse’s Managerial Skills and Nurses’ Turnover Intention in Private Hospitals

Nasiripour AA, Tabibi SJ and Mokhtari R

Background: Nurses` Turnover Intention is one the most important problems of human recourses management in a hospital setting. Aim: To determine the relationship of head nurse’s managerial skills and nurse employees’ turnover intention in Tehran private hospitals. Materials and Methods: The population of this study includes the whole nurses of Tehran private hospitals (N= 10.000). The samples has been considered 370 people based on Morgan table sampling. Cluster method has been used in this study. Firstly, Tehran has been divided into 5 zones (areas) of north, south, east, west and centre. Then, 3 hospitals have been chosen randomly in each zone (area) and 30 questionnaires were distributed among the nurses in accessible and available manner in each hospital and then they were collected. The Regression have been used for testing of the hypothesis of the research. Results: There was a positive coefficient which is between technical, humane, perceptional variants has connection with turnover intention`s variant. The positive coefficient of technical variant (-4.07), human variant (-4.83) and perceptional variant (-2.84) with turnover intention`s variant demonstrated that this relationship is positive and significant. Conclusion: Nursing management can play an important role in decreasing of nurse employees` turnover intention by particular concern and attention of the ones who are responsible in nurse training.