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Implications for practice and research
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The association between leaving intentions and burnout gives policymakers and nurse managers the opportunity to pay attention to burnout and its precursors as potential drivers of professional leaving.
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The study has the same limitations of many cross-sectional studies by focusing on work life and omitting contextual factors such as economic and family background.
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Future studies should consider actual leaving rather than intentions, adopt more developed models of organisational leaving1 and prospective designs.
Context
Nursing shortages are a recurrent problem in healthcare systems worldwide. Two basic mechanisms are considered to maintain and develop a sufficient nursing workforce: first, increasing the inflow of personnel into the active nursing workforce (eg, through training or immigration) and second, …
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