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Nursing issues
Cross-sectional study
Nine per cent of nurses across Europe report intent to leave their profession, with burnout among the associated personal and professional factors
  1. Michael Simon
  1. Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
  1. Correspondence to: Dr Michael Simon
    Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield Campus Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK; m.simon{at}soton.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/eb-2013-101321

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    Commentary on: Heinen MM, Van Achterberg T, Schwendimann R, et al. Nurses’ intention to leave their profession: a cross sectional observational study in 10 European countries. Int J Nurs Stud 2013;50:174–84.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed

    Implications for practice and research

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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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    • Competing interests None.