Factors Affected Requirement for Career Transition of Registered Nurse in Surin Hospital

Abstract

Background: Requisition for transfer and career transition of registered nurses in Surin hospital has been increasing by year. Achieving causes and factors affected this requirement may benefit for nurse administrators to manage and develop nurse administrative system as well as nurse’s job planning to respond nurse’s requirement and optimize satisfaction of both practitioner and administrator which leads to hospital improvement goal to achieve the organizational excellence.
Objective: To study requirement for transfer and career transition of registered nurses in Surin hospital including factors affected the requirement.
Study design: Descriptive study
Subject and Method: The subjects were 451 registered nurses in charged of patient’s ward at Sunn Hospital with at least three years of working experience. The subjects were selected by purposive sampling random sampling. The questionnaires had two sections: demographic data and factors affected requirement for career transition. The questionnaire was collected from March 1st to May 31st 2008. Statistical analysis of descriptive data presented in percentage, mean, standard deviation and Chi-square test.
Result: There were 62.3 percent of registered nurses had required for career transition. The first three factors affected the requirement were income and benefit (3.18+0.76), workload (3.04+0.94) and work shift (2.95+0.82) respectively.
Conclusion: The result of this study will benefit for nurse administrator to determine the appropriate nurse job description and optimal human resource management. Nurse administrator should also encourage nurse continuing education and training program to in charged nurses to enhance staff’s proficiency and advancement in career opportunity for further job sustainability and job responsibility. These will result in nurse’s satisfaction in their career.
Key words: Career transition, Workload, Career opportunity