Publication date: Apr 01, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the global nursing shortage, leading to increased turnover intentions among nurses due to heightened workplace stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction. This study investigates the mediating effects of burnout and job satisfaction on the relationship between professional identity, occupational stress, and nurses’ turnover intentions. Additionally, it explores the impact of socio-demographic factors on these relationships in the post-pandemic era. A cross-sectional study of 338 nurses across 4 hospitals in Israel was conducted between June 2023 and January 2024. Self-reported questionnaires were utilized to measure turnover intention using the Turnover Intention Scale, with professional identity and occupational stress as predictors and burnout and job satisfaction as mediators. A fixed effect path analysis approach was employed to assess the hypothesized mediation model, controlling for hospital-level variance and socio-demographic variables. The findings revealed that professional identity was negatively associated with burnout (β = -0. 26, p
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| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | Burnout |
| disease | MESH | Occupational Stress |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |
| disease | MESH | Burnout Professional |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Etoperidone |