[Factors associated with long-term retention among nurses in an intensive care unit]. / Factores relacionados con la larga permanencia laboral de las enfermeras en las unidades de cuidados intensivos.

OBJECTIVE: To identify which factors motivate nurses with more than 10 years' experience in the ICU of the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante to stay in the unit and to analyze the reasons for leaving in nurses who left this ICU after more than 10 years. METHOD: We performed a descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study. Thirty-two nurses who had worked in the ICU for more than 10 years completed a written questionnaire. In the 18 nurses that had left the ICU, the reasons for leaving were determined. The results are expressed in relative frequencies and percentages. RESULTS: Twenty nurses (62%) continued to work in the ICU because they liked the service and five (16%) because they had not been able to work in a position they liked more. Of the nurses who had left the ICU after 10 or more years, 67% had done so to work on a fixed shift. CONCLUSIONS: Most of the nurses who had worked for more than 10 years in the ICU stayed because they liked the service, while most of those who left did so to work fixed shifts.

Factores relacionados con la larga permanencia laboral de las enfermeras en las unidades de cuidados intensivos / Factors associated with long-term retention among nurses in an intensive care unit

Objetivos. Identificar qué factores motivan a las enfermeras con más de 10 años de experiencia en la Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos (UCI) del Hospital General Universitario de Alicante a continuar en ella y analizar, en las enfermeras que se trasladaron desde esta UCI tras más de 10 años, las causas que motivaron ésta decisión. Método. Estudio descriptivo, observacional y transversal. Treinta y dos enfermeras de UCI con más de 10 años de antigüedad en ella cumplimentaron un cuestionario escrito; para 18 enfermeras que se habían trasladado de UCI tras más de 10 años en ella, se determinaron sus características y el motivo que las llevó a solicitar el traslado. Los resultados se expresan en frecuencias relativas y porcentajes. Resultados. El 62% de las enfermeras (20) continuaban en la UCI porque les gustaba el servicio y el 16% (5) por nohaber podido salir a un puesto que les gustase más. El 67% de las enfermeras que se habían trasladado tras 10 años o más de ejercicio en la UCI lo había hecho por trabajar en un turno fijo. Conclusiones. La mayoría de las enfermeras con más de 10 años de antigüedad en UCI continúa en ella porque les gusta el servicio; la mayor parte de las enfermeras que salieron de UCI tras más de 10 años lo hizo para trabajar en un turno fijo

Objective. To identify which factors motivate nurses with more than 10 years’ experience in the ICU of the Hospital General Universitario de Alicante to stay in the unit and to analyze the reasons for leaving in nurses who left this ICU after more than 10 years.Method. We performed a descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study. Thirty-two nurses who had worked in theICU for more than 10 years completed a written questionnaire. In the 18 nurses that had left the ICU, the reasons for leaving were determined. The results are expressed in relative frequencies and percentages.Results. Twenty nurses (62%) continued to work in the ICU because they liked the service and five (16%) becausethey had not been able to work in a position they liked more. Of the nurses who had left the ICU after 10 or moreyears, 67% had done so to work on a fixed shift.Conclusions. Most of the nurses who had worked for more than 10 years in the ICU stayed because they liked theservice, while most of those who left did so to work fixed shifts