Reasons for the Intention to Leave among Nurses Working in Internal Medicine and Surgery Departments of Slovenian Hospitals – A Cross Sectional Study
Brigita Skela-Savič
Department for Health Care Sciences, Angela Boškin Faculty of Health CareJesenice, Slovenia
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, Walter Sermeus
Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy, Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenLeuven, Belgium
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, Mateja Bahun
Department for Nursing Care, Angela Boškin Faculty of Health CareJesenice, Slovenia
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, Sanela Pivač
Department for Nursing Care, Angela Boškin Faculty of Health CareJesenice, Slovenia
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und Tit Albreht
Healthcare System Centre, National Institute of Public HealthLjubljana, Slovenia
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01. Sept. 2025
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Artikel-Kategorie: Original scientific article
Online veröffentlicht: 01. Sept. 2025
Seitenbereich: 160 - 166
Eingereicht: 19. Mai 2025
Akzeptiert: 25. Juli 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjph-2025-0021
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The results by variable and the differences between respondent groups in terms of the intention to leave the hospital or stay_
| Emotional exhaustion | 931 | 23.62 (10.589) | 28.14 (9.479) | 18.90 (9.544) | 15.338 (<0.001) |
| Current job | 1.003 | 2.96 (0.733) | 2.64 (0.699) | 3.29 (0.616) | −15.427 (<0.001) |
| Decision to work in nursing | 988 | 2.89 (0.791) | 2.62 (0.748) | 3.11 (0.754) | −10.228 (<0.001) |
| 790 | 2.73 (0.675) | 2.43 (0.630) | 3.05 (0.552) | −14.983 (<0.001) | |
| Management resolve problems in patient care that I report. (ordinal 1–4) | 998 | 2.57 (0.882) | 2.26 (0.865) | 2.89 (0.781) | −11.927 (<0.001) |
| Overall grade on patient safety in my department. (ordinal 1–5) | 999 | 3.54 (0.858) | 3.38 (0.897) | 3.70 (0.780) | −5861 (<0.001) |
| Overtime hours per month (continues) | 853 | 16.53 (15.237) | 18.70 (15.652) | 14.17 (14.359) | 4.367 (<0.001) |
| Quality of nursing care in department (ordinal 1–4) | 1005 | 3.03 (0.746) | 2.88 (0.790) | 3.19 (0.656) | −6.876 (<0.001) |
| Readiness of patients for discharge (ordinal 1–4) | 1004 | 2.87 (0.664) | 2.74 (0.706) | 3.01 (0.583) | −6.546 (<0.001) |
| Undone necessary activities (continues) | 1003 | 1.69 (0.244) | 1.66 (0.245) | 1.73 (0.233) | −4.958 (<0.001) |
Logistic regression model for intention to leave the hospital for nurses in internal medicine and surgery departments of Slovenian hospitals_
| “YES, I will leave the current hospital within a year because of job dissatisfaction.” | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| −1.020 | 0.265 | 14.874 | 1 | 0.361 | 0.215 | 0.605 | ||
| −0.604 | 0.155 | 15.181 | 1 | 0.547 | 0.403 | 0.741 | ||
| Overall grade on patient safety | 0.210 | 0.164 | 1.638 | 1 | 0.201 | 1.234 | 0.894 | 1.703 |
| 0.452 | 0.115 | 15.486 | 1 | 1.572 | 1.255 | 1.969 | ||
| −0.919 | 0.230 | 15.972 | 1 | 0.399 | 0.254 | 0.626 | ||
| −0.047 | 0.011 | 18.789 | 1 | 0.954 | 0.934 | 0.974 | ||
| 0.021 | 0.007 | 8.047 | 1 | 1.021 | 1.007 | 1.037 | ||
| Decision to work in nursing | −0.317 | 0.166 | 3.626 | 1 | 0.057 | 0.729 | 0.526 | 1.009 |
| Quality of nursing care in department | 0.060 | 0.190 | 0.101 | 1 | 0.750 | 1.062 | 0.732 | 1.541 |
| Readiness of patients for discharge | −0.002 | 0.194 | 0.000 | 1 | 0.992 | 0.998 | 0.682 | 1.460 |
| Undone necessary activities | 0.262 | 0.297 | 0.774 | 1 | 0.379 | 1.299 | 0.725 | 2.327 |
| Constant | 7.020 | 1.280 | 30.071 | 1 | <0.001 | 1119.11 | ||