The determinants and consequences of adult nursing staff turnover: a systematic review of systematic reviews.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nurses leaving their jobs and the profession are an issue of international concern, with supply-demand gaps for nurses reported to be widening. There is a large body of existing literature, much of which is already in review form. In order to advance the usefulness of the literature for nurse and human resource managers, we undertook an overview (review of systematic reviews). The aim of the overview was to identify high quality evidence of the determinants and consequences of turnover in adult nursing.

Methods

Reviews were identified which were published between 1990 and January 2015 in English using electronic databases (the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, CINAHL plus and SCOPUS) and forward

SUBMITTER: Halter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5732502 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature