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. 2022 Feb;35(1):48-56.
doi: 10.1177/09514848211010427. Epub 2021 Apr 29.

Meaningful moves: A meaning-based view of nurses' turnover

A R Elangovan  1 , Anirban Kar  2 , Claudia Steinke  3
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Meaningful moves: A meaning-based view of nurses' turnover

A R Elangovan et al. Health Serv Manage Res. 2022 Feb.

Abstract

Nurses' turnover is a major global problem with significant service and cost implications. Although sizeable research inquiries have been made into the antecedents, the dynamics, and the consequences of nurses' turnover, there is still a lack of fine-grained understanding of the psychological states that reflect the cumulative impact of different antecedents and immediately precede nurses' intentions to quit either from their unit/organization and/or their profession. This paper introduces and develops a meaning-based view of nurses' turnover. This perspective distinguishes between meaning in work (based on the nurses' relationship with their work) and meaning at work (based on the nurses' relationship with their work environment) and explain the implications of high/low meaning in and at work on nurses' turnover. This meaning-based view of nurses' turnover offers nurses, administrators and policy makers a deeper and a more nuanced understanding of turnover and promises more tailored remedies for the turnover problem.

Keywords: meaning at work; meaning in work; meaning-based view of nurses’ turnover; nurses' turnover.

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Declaration of conflicting interests: The author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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