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Early-career Registered Nurses’ Participation in Hospital Quality Improvement Activities
We surveyed 2 cohorts of early-career registered nurses from 15 states in the US, 2 years apart, to compare their reported participation in hospital quality improvement (QI) activities. We anticipated differences between the 2 cohorts because of the growth of several initiatives for engaging nurses in QI. There were no differences between the 2 cohorts […]
Intersection of Migration and Turnover Theories-What Can We Learn?
The purpose of this article was to compare the concepts of an integrated nursing turnover theory with the concepts of one international migration framework. 2014 Brewer, C. S. & Kovner, C. T. Nursing Outlook. 62(1), 29-38. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2013.09.002. Read the article
Changing Trends in Newly Licensed RNs
Recent changes in U.S. health care and economics may influence the demand for nurses and the work choices of newly licensed RNs (NLRNs). We sought to compare the work lives of two cohorts of NLRNs licensed six years apart. Response rates were 58% and 47%, respectively, for the 2004–05 cohort (N = 774) and the […]
What Does Nurse Turnover Rate Mean and What is the Rate?
Date Posted: 2014-08-25Registered nurse (RN) turnover is an important measure widely used in health-care workforce analyses. While at the same time there is a lack of consistency in the definition of turnover. These inconsistent definitions would finally result in various turnover rates. In this article we try to answer what does nurse turnover rate mean and what […]
Early career nurses’ experiences of verbal abuse from other nurses.
Based on the data collected in 2011 from 1,407 nurses who were a nationally representative sample of nurses who were licensed for the first time in 2004 and 2005, this study reported the verbal abuse that early career nurses experienced from other nurses. 2014 Kovner, C.T. Budin, W., & Brewer, C.S. Nursing in the 21st […]
Exploring direct and indirect influences of physical work environment on job satisfaction for Early-Career Registered Nurses Employed in Hospitals.
This study explored explored direct and indirect influences of physical work environment on job satisfaction in a nationally representative sample of 1,141 early-career registered nurses. In the fully specified model, physical work environment had a non-significant direct effect on job satisfaction. The path analysis used to test multiple indirect effects showed that physical work environment […]
