Why Are Healthcare Providers Leaving Their Jobs? A Convergent Mixed-Methods Investigation of Turnover Intention among Canadian Healthcare Providers during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Nursing Reports, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 14(3), P. 2030 - 2060

Published: Aug. 21, 2024

Background: Staffing shortages across the healthcare sector pose a threat to continuity of Canadian system in post-COVID-19 pandemic era. We sought understand factors associated with turnover intention as well providers’ (HCPs) perspectives and experiences related both organizational professional turnover. Method: A convergent questionnaire mixed-methods design was employed. Descriptive statistics ordinal logistic regressions were used analyze quantitative data ascertain intention. Thematic analysis qualitative open-field textbox HCPs’ Results: Quantitative analyses revealed that 78.6% HCPs surveyed (N = 398) reported at least 25% likelihood regarding their organization, 67.5% reporting profession. Whereas regression models significant impact years worked, burnout, support on for organizations, age, sex, contributed leaving Patterns meaning drawn from participants’ responses organized according following four themes: (1) Content stay, (2) Drowning no one cares, (3) Moral stressors, (4) Wrestling costs benefits. Conclusions: Many described weighing benefits organization or profession during COVID-19 pandemic. Although challenging working conditions, moral burnout may play role intention, there is ample room intervene support.

Language: Английский

Moral injury, coping strategies, and supports among Canadian public safety personnel

Journal of Military Veteran and Family Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 11(3), P. 53 - 68

Published: June 1, 2025

LAY SUMMARY Public safety personnel (PSP), like police officers, firefighters, and paramedics, often face stressful situations at work in which their moral values are violated. These experiences place PSP risk for injury. Moral injury is a type of mental health experience that can greatly affect how someone feels behaves. This study aimed to understand whether relates different coping methods supports may regularly use. The results showed organizational support, spiritual well-being, self-compassion, social support were each associated with less will help inform prevention intervention strategies experiencing

Language: Английский

Vulnerability: An Interpretive Descriptive Study of Personal Support Workers’ Experiences of Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ontario, Canada

Healthcare, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 12(23), P. 2474 - 2474

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Personal support workers (PSWs) are important healthcare providing essential services to thousands of Canadians. PSWs face many challenges that were exacerbated in the context COVID-19 pandemic. In this study we explore experiences working through pandemic Ontario long-term care (LTC) homes by focusing on vulnerability such workers.

Language: Английский