The effect of nurses' perception of employee health and safety culture on intention to leave

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of nurses' perceptions of employee health and safety culture on turnover intention. The descriptive and relationship-seeking study design was carried out with the participation of 551 nurses. The data were gathered using a diagnostic form that included the participants' descriptive information and occupational characteristics, as well as the "Employee Health and Safety Culture Scale" and the "Intention to Leave Scale." In the evaluation of data, descriptive statistical methods (mean, standard deviation, median, frequency, percentage, minimum, maximum), Shapiro-Wilk test, Student-t test, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way analysis of variance, Dunn-Bonferroni test, Spearman correlation, and Linear regression analysis were used. It was determined that the total mean score of the employee health and safety culture scale of the nurses participating in the study was high (3.72±0.59), and the total mean score of the intention to leave scale was moderate (2.57±0.98). It was discovered that perception levels of employee health and safety increased with age, and that perception levels of the employee health and safety culture of high school graduate nurses were low. The male gender, the 18-25 age range, and single nurses were shown to have a high intention to leave. The intention of nurses to leave their jobs is not affected by their educational level. It was determined that there was a weakly statistically significant negative correlation between the participants' total mean scores on the Intention to Leave Scale and their total mean scores on the sub-dimensions of the Employee Health and Safety Culture Scale. According to the results of the regression analysis; It was determined that the perception of employee health and safety culture in nurses affected the intention to leave the job by 10.8%, while the variables of Management Policies, Prevention of Violence and Food Safety affected the intention to leave the job by 9.6%.