Relationship research between work-family conflict,occupational commitment and turnover intention of registered nurses in the top-three hospitals of Anhui

Objective: To know the turnover intention of registered nurses in top-three hospitals of Anhui,and analyze the relationships between work-family conflict,occupational commitment and turnover intention for providing the basis in decreasing the turnover rate of nurses and stabilizing the nurse team.Methods: A total of 880 registered nurses were investigated using the work-family conflict scale,competency inventory for registered nurse scale and turnover intention scale.Results: The result of single factor analysis showed that the turnover intention of registered nurses in top-three hospitals was lower than that in grade two hospitals(P<0.01),the score of which in common nurse was higher than that in head nurse(P<0.01),and the scores of which in personnel agent and contract nurses were higher than that in formal nurse(P<0.01).The lower the professional title,the higher the dissatisfaction,the worse the health condition and the lower the professional interest and income,the higher the turnover intention score was(P<0.01).The turnover intention scores in department of pediatrics and emergency medicine were higher than that in other departments(P<0.01).The total scores of work-family conflict and each dimension were positively related to the turnover intention(P<0.01).The total scores of occupational commitment and each dimension were negatively related to the turnover intention(P<0.01).Multivariate analysis showed that the opportunity commitment,family-work conflict,normative commitment,emotional commitment,professional interest,hospital type and annual income were the influencing factors in turn,and the influencing rate of those was is 59.0%(R²=0.590,P<0.01).Conclusions: The nursing managers should take intervention measures to decrease the family-work conflict,and improve occupational commitment for reducing the turnover rate and stabilizing nursing team.