The Relationship Between Work Environment Satisfaction and Retention Intention Among Nursing Administrators in Taiwan

Area of Science:

• Healthcare Management
• Nursing Administration
• Organizational Psychology

Background:

• Nursing administrators are vital for healthcare quality.
• Taiwan faces a decade-long nursing manpower shortage impacting administrators.
• Administrators must maintain care quality amidst understaffing.

Purpose of the Study:

• To investigate the link between work environment satisfaction and nursing administrator retention in Taiwan.
• To identify key factors influencing nursing administrator retention.

Main Methods:

• Cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey.
• Data collected from nursing administrators in Taiwan.
• High response rate (95.57%) from 1,829 distributed questionnaires.

Main Results:

• Overall work environment satisfaction averaged 3.59.
• Highest satisfaction in safe practice environments (3.83), lowest in informatics (3.38).
• Administrator tenure and all eight work environment domains significantly predicted retention; support and caring was the strongest predictor.

Conclusions:

• Administrator position tenure correlates with retention.
• The support and caring domain is critical for junior administrator retention.
• Recommendations include developing strategies to enhance junior administrators' career prospects and satisfaction.