Purpose To explore nurses' perceptions of the nature of nursing work as a factor that
contributes to attrition from the profession. Design A nonpurposive sample of nurses from the …

Human and financial costs generated by nurse shortages, within a context of increasing
numbers of patients requiring nursing care, demonstrate the potential significance of this …

Objective: To identify the range of positions to which registered nurses moved when they left
the profession and to explore the perceptions of respondents about the skills and …

Background. The desire to care for people, a family history of professional health care work,
and security in career choice are documented reasons for entering nursing. Reasons for …

This paper reports on an exploratory study undertaken in New South Wales, Australia which
sought to identify the positions nurses go on to when they leave nursing and the skills and …

Many nurses leave nursing and never return. Others return after a period of time. Given the
global shortage of nurses a better understanding of these movements is needed. The …

Aim To systematically provide an overview of the qualitative evidence available on the
motivations for nurses to leave the nursing profession. Design A qualitative systematic …

Background: There is ample evidence that modern nurses are under strain and that
interventions to support the nursing workforce have not recognised the complexity inherent …

Aim The aim of this article was to report on the analysis of qualitative, open text data,
received from a national on‐line survey of what factors Generation Y New Zealand …

Aim and objectives. To explore nurses' perceptions of the reality of practice based on data
from the Nurses and Midwives e‐cohort Study which examined the workforce characteristics …