One in five practice nurses plans to quit, survey shows
Better pay, mentoring and appointing a nurse manager is key to retaining these nurses, say Australian researchers
One-fifth of practice nurses intend to leave general practice due to low job satisfaction, a new study suggests.
Nursing researchers from the University of Wollongong have surveyed 90 practice nurses, nearly all female, working in the South Western Sydney Primary Health Network to gauge their job satisfaction and intention to stay or leave general practice nursing.
They found one in five of the nurses (average age 40) would like to leave general practice nursing and 15% were actively looking for a job outside general practice.
Some 40% of nurses were not happy with their pay and 32% felt they were not fairly remunerated for the work they did.
