Migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from Slovakia: A study on drivers
Nurses are an essential resource in health systems. However, the shortage of skilled nursing workforce is a global phenomenon with negative consequences – many factors, including individual, occupational, and socio-political aspects, influence nurse migration. Thus, the aim is to explore the migrati...
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| description | Nurses are an essential resource in health systems. However, the shortage of skilled nursing workforce is a global phenomenon with negative consequences – many factors, including individual, occupational, and socio-political aspects, influence nurse migration. Thus, the aim is to explore the migration intentions of nurses and nursing students, forcing them to seek work abroad. An online survey was conducted among nurses and nursing students as part of the APVV and VEGA projects. The questionnaire focused on the essential characteristics of the respondents and staffing approaches in hospitals in Slovakia. Data were obtained from a survey of 752 hospital nurses and 423 university nursing students. The statistical analysis consisted of factor and correspondence analysis. The findings highlight the factors influencing the migratory sentiments of nursing students and working hospital nurses. They are organization of work, staff remuneration, employee benefits, workroom equipment, shortage of nurses, bureaucracy, communication and relations with colleagues, superiors, and patients, training and career development, material and spatial security, instrumentation, digitization of work, the prestige of the medical profession, and current situation in the Slovak Republic. The paper identifies and evaluates groups of push factors of migration intentions – satisfaction/dissatisfaction with hospital working conditions. The results of the factor analysis indicate that such factors as material and spatial security, communication and relations with colleagues, work organization, lack of personnel, bureaucracy, the prestige of the medical profession, and the current situation in Slovakia affect their working conditions and pleasure.
AcknowledgmentThis study is elaborated within the framework of the projects APVV č. 19-0579 “Personnel management processes setup in hospitals and its impact on the migration of physicians and nurses to work abroad” and VEGA č. 1/0691/22 “Economic aspects of emigration of university graduates in health care departments in the context of the sustainability of staffing of health care facilities in the Slovak Republic.” |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a43e151b95e140a48165192630fc8e972024-03-12T10:35:40ZengLLC "CPC "Business Perspectives"Problems and Perspectives in Management1727-70511810-54672024-03-0122153454810.21511/ppm.22(1).2024.4319742Migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from Slovakia: A study on driversVeronika Mozolová0https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2326-1425Magdaléna Tupá1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4532-2292Ph.D. Student, Department of Management and Human Resources Development, Faculty of Social and Economic Relations, Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín, SlovakiaIng. PhD., Associate Professor, Department of Management and Human Resources Development, Faculty of Social and Economic Relations, Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín, SlovakiaNurses are an essential resource in health systems. However, the shortage of skilled nursing workforce is a global phenomenon with negative consequences – many factors, including individual, occupational, and socio-political aspects, influence nurse migration. Thus, the aim is to explore the migration intentions of nurses and nursing students, forcing them to seek work abroad. An online survey was conducted among nurses and nursing students as part of the APVV and VEGA projects. The questionnaire focused on the essential characteristics of the respondents and staffing approaches in hospitals in Slovakia. Data were obtained from a survey of 752 hospital nurses and 423 university nursing students. The statistical analysis consisted of factor and correspondence analysis. The findings highlight the factors influencing the migratory sentiments of nursing students and working hospital nurses. They are organization of work, staff remuneration, employee benefits, workroom equipment, shortage of nurses, bureaucracy, communication and relations with colleagues, superiors, and patients, training and career development, material and spatial security, instrumentation, digitization of work, the prestige of the medical profession, and current situation in the Slovak Republic. The paper identifies and evaluates groups of push factors of migration intentions – satisfaction/dissatisfaction with hospital working conditions. The results of the factor analysis indicate that such factors as material and spatial security, communication and relations with colleagues, work organization, lack of personnel, bureaucracy, the prestige of the medical profession, and the current situation in Slovakia affect their working conditions and pleasure. AcknowledgmentThis study is elaborated within the framework of the projects APVV č. 19-0579 “Personnel management processes setup in hospitals and its impact on the migration of physicians and nurses to work abroad” and VEGA č. 1/0691/22 “Economic aspects of emigration of university graduates in health care departments in the context of the sustainability of staffing of health care facilities in the Slovak Republic.”https://www.businessperspectives.org/images/pdf/applications/publishing/templates/article/assets/19742/PPM_2024_01_Mozolova.pdfjob satisfactionlabor migrationmigration intentionsnursesnursing studentspull and push factors |
| spellingShingle | Veronika Mozolová Magdaléna Tupá Migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from Slovakia: A study on drivers Problems and Perspectives in Management job satisfaction labor migration migration intentions nurses nursing students pull and push factors |
| title | Migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from Slovakia: A study on drivers |
| title_full | Migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from Slovakia: A study on drivers |
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| title_sort | migration intentions of nurses and nursing students from slovakia a study on drivers |
| topic | job satisfaction labor migration migration intentions nurses nursing students pull and push factors |
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