This study aimed to investigate predictors of turnover intention of home visiting nurses at 16 public health centers in Busan. There are two groups of independent factors: non-work related (i. e., age, educational level, working duration as nurses in hospitals, and certificate), and work related factors (i. e., working duration as nurses in public health centers, working duration as home visiting nurse, position, number of households visited per week, workload, cooperation among staff, support by supervisors. supply of vehicles, and supply of materials).
Data were collected with self-administrated questionnaires which consisted of 4 items of non-work related factors, 9 items of work related factors, and 1 item of turnover intention to other department. Data were analyzed using an univariate logistic regression and multiple logistic regression.
According to the results, heavy workload (Yes vs No. OR-4.31, 95% CI=1.16-16.04) was the most powerful predictor on the turnover intention.
In conclusion, this result was similar to those of other studies on the predictors of turnover intention of clinical nurses at hospitals. To decrease the turnover intention among home visiting nurses at public health centers in Busan, alleviating the workload is needed.
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