Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing  2011;20(1):74-82

Effect of Shiftwork Nurses' Fatigue on Job Stress and Turnover Intention: Mediating Role of Job Stress.

Kyung Hee LEE 1 ; Ji Yong KIM

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Keywords

Fatigue; Psychological stress; Employee turnover

Country

Republic of Korea

Language

Korean

Abstract

PURPOSE: This study investigated how shift work nurses' fatigue influences job stress and turnover intention, and how job stress mediates the relationship between fatigue and turnover intention. METHODS: As a descriptive research design, the data were collected from 203 shift work nurses in a city. It was analyzed using the SPSS/WIN 14.0 and AMOS 5.0. RESULTS: fatigue and job stress in shift work nurses influenced turnover intention. Job stress worked as a partial mediation between fatigue and turnover intention. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to reduce fatigue and job stress for reducing turnover intention in strategies of hospital manpower.