Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Underpin the Pandemic Nurses’ Turnover Intention Model to Examine Nurse Turnover Intentions in The Bahamas During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theory Paper

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https://doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v28i0.459

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Nurse turnover, Nurse retention, Job Demands-Resources Model

Abstract

Nurse turnover can affect the accessibility of healthcare services, quality of patient care, and nurse well-being. Various individual and contextual factors have been found to predict nurse turnover. A growing body of evidence now suggests the emergence of another potential predictor─fear related to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 also known as COVID-19. To limit consequences, stakeholders must collaboratively develop empirically supported interventions to reduce nurse turnover. The purpose of this paper is to explain the novel use of the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model as a theoretical underpinning of the empirically supported Pandemic Nurses’ Turnover Intention (PNTI) model which is used to examine factors influencing nurses’ turnover intentions in The Bahamas during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author Biographies

Shamel Yvonne Rolle Sands, University of Alberta

PhD (c), Faculty of Nursing Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, University of The Bahamas

Christine Covell, University of Alberta

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing

Vera Caine, University of Alberta

Full Professor, Faculty of Nursing

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