Impacts of Nursing Work Environment on Turnover Intentions: The Mediating Role of Burnout in Ghana

Table 1

Nurses’ perception about their professional practice environment.

PES-NWI subscales	Frequency	Percent	Min	Max	Mean	SD
Nurse manager ability, leadership, and support
Dissatisfied	140	60.3
Satisfied	92	39.7	11	44	21.98	3.56
Collegial nurse-physician relations			7	28	15.17	4.19
Poor	137	59.1
Good	95	40.9
Staffing and resource adequacy			7	28	15.47	3.78
Inadequate	129	55.6
Adequate	103	44.4
Nurses’ participation in hospital affair			3	12	7.03	1.68
Dissatisfied	118	50.9
Satisfied	114	49.1
Nursing foundation for quality of care			4	16	8.71	2.07
Availability	89	38.4
Non-availability	143	61.6
Total PES score			32	128	65.87	9.68
Dissatisfied	100	43.1
Satisfied	132	56.9

(Field Data, 2017). PES: Practice Environment Scale, NWI: Nursing Work Index, SD: Standard Deviation. Turnover intention of the RN.