Abstract:
Concerns associated with the complex issue of nurses‟ turnover remains to be a challenge to
healthcare leaders in every health institution. Turnover in health care institutions has
considerable challenges on customer service levels (Alem Getie, 2015).
The development and success of any institution depends on its personnel. Turnover in health
care organizations has substantial challenge on customer service levels and cause training and
expatriation losses cost. In light of current concerns over nursing shortages, nurses‟ turnover
intent is a topic of great importance. The healthcare community needs to be concerned about
nursing turnover intention and the effect on the predictable nursing shortage. The evaluation
of nursing turnover intention and the association between turnover intention and various
predictors needs to be determined. To comprehend the factors of nurses‟ turnover intention
can help the top management in designing effective strategies to overcome the issue.
Aim: To determine the level of intention to turn over among nurses and factors associated
with turnover intention among nurses.
Method: A quantitative exploratory and descriptive design was used. Data was collected
from May 2019 to June 2019 by using a structured questionnaire. A total of 44 respondents
filed the questionnaire with the response rate of 97.7%. Descriptive statistics were used and a
P value of 0.05 was found.
Result: Findings suggested that (67.4%) of respondents indicated a turnover intention from
their current health care institution. The results also revealed that three factors showed strong
significant association with turnover intention which are poor payment indicated by the p
value of 0.002, poor training opportunities with the p value of 0.000 as well as low job
satisfaction as shown by a p-value of 0.005.
Conclusion: Nurses are valuable to the health care institution to provide quality care. If the
health care institution want to decrease nurses‟ turnover, then it is important to understand
factors which increase nurses‟ turnover intentions. The results of this study suggests that
interventions should be carried out to reduce the nurses‟ turnover intention at Muhima
District Hospital.
