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AIM: This study aimed to determine the influence of personal factors such as grit, calling, and resilience on nurses' retention intention in South Korean general hospitals. BACKGROUND: The global shortage and high turnover rate of nurses have become significant concerns with no clear solutions for increasing retention. INTRODUCTION: Determining the factors related to the f general hospital nurses and retention intention is important for solving the problem of inadequate nursing personnel and improving the quality of nursing services. METHODS: This study was a descriptive survey of 221 nurses working at a general hospital in South Korea from July 2021 to February 2022. Data were collected using self-reported online questionnaires, with measurement tools focusing on grit, calling, resilience, and retention intention. The STROBE checklist was used for reporting this study. RESULTS: The average retention intention score was 5.35 ± 1.52 out of 8 points. Significant correlations were found between retention intention and grit, calling, and resilience. The factors influencing retention intention were job satisfaction, calling, marital status, and total career length, explaining 31.9% of the variance. CONCLUSIONS: To enhance nurses' intention to remain at general hospitals, their job satisfaction and sense of a calling should be improved. Further research should be conducted to identify factors that influence retention intention, particularly among groups with low job retention, with consideration of individual characteristics that might affect retention intention. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND HEALTH POLICY: Increasing nurses' retention intention would alleviate the nursing shortage, help hospitals retain competent nurses, reduce turnover-related costs, and improve organizational efficiency. Resolving the nursing shortage is critical for improving patient safety and nursing service quality at general hospitals.
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AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To analyse and describe the changes in the image of nurses perceived by the public pre- and post-COVID-19 in Korea. BACKGROUND: Nurses play an important role in disaster situations such as COVID-19. In such disaster situations, we aim to confirm the image of nurses projected in the mass media and promote the professionalism of nurses through the image of nurses as professionals. DESIGN: Qualitative media keyword networks analysis. METHODS: To understand the change in the image of nurses pre- and post-COVID-19, the big data program TEXTOM was used to collect data. From 19 January to 31 May 2020, data were set as 'post-COVID-19', and 1 year before 18 January 2020, data were set as 'pre-COVID-19'. The keywords from 9533 articles were refined, frequency analysed and social networks analysed using TEXTOM and MS office excel, and the analysis results were visualised using UCINET 6 and the NetDraw program. RESULTS: As for keywords related to nurses pre-COVID-19, those with the most frequent appearance and the highest networking degree in centrality were 'work', 'older adults', 'care', 'time', 'care worker', 'caring labor'. As for keywords related to nurses post-COVID-19, those that appeared most often and had the highest degree of centrality networking were 'COVID-19', 'USA', 'China', 'check', 'patient', 'work'. CONCLUSION: This study shows that the public image of nurses has changed more positively after COVID-19 due to the media. Individual nurses and nursing organizations should pay attention to the deficiency in the image of nurses and provide a way to reform the public image of professional nurses. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The effects of global crises such as COVID-19 on nurses were confirmed, and information delivered through the media was an important way to improve the nursing profession.
