Job demands and resources as drivers of exhaustion and leaving intentions: a prospective analysis with geriatric nurses.

Background: Nurses show a high prevalence of exhaustion and increased leaving intentions. With this study, we integrate established research about turnover intention with recent burnout literature and present a theoretical model that combines both. The aim of this study was to examine job demands (time pressure, social conflicts) and resources (job control, supervisor support, task identity, person-organisation fit) as drivers and health and age as moderators for the relationships between exhaustion and nurses' organisational and professional leaving intentions.

High Job Demands and Low Job Control Increase Nurses' Professional Leaving Intentions: The Role of Care Setting and Profit Orientation.

We investigated how two types of care setting (home care and nursing home) and type of ownership (for-profit vs. public/non-profit) of geriatric care services interacted in influencing registered nurses' intention to give up their profession. In prior research, employment in for-profit-organizations, high job demands, and low job control were important antecedents of nurses' intent to leave.