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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on staff turnover at long-term care facilities : a qualitative study
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Yaraghi, Niam, Henfridsson, Ola and Gopal, Ram (2022) Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on staff turnover at long-term care facilities : a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 12 (12). e065123. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065123 ISSN 2044-6055.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065123
Abstract
Objective The objective of this research was to explore the lived experiences of long-term care facilities’ staff during the COVID-19 pandemic and examine if and how the pandemic played a role in their decision to leave their jobs.
Design Qualitative study using thematic analysis of semistructured interviews. Interview transcripts were analysed using coding techniques based in grounded theory.
Participants A total of 29 staff with various roles across 21 long-term care facilities in 12 states were interviewed.
Results The pandemic influenced the staff’s decision to leave their jobs in five different ways, namely: (1) It significantly increased the workload; (2) Created more physical and emotional hazards for staff; (3) Constrained the facilities and their staff financially; (4) Deteriorated morale and job satisfaction among the staff and (5) Increased concerns with upper management’s commitment to both general and COVID-19-specific procedures.
Conclusions Staff at long-term care facilities discussed a wide variety of reasons for their decision to quit their jobs during the pandemic. Our findings may inform efforts to reduce the rate of turnover in these facilities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RT Nursing |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-, Nursing home care , Nursing homes -- Employees -- Psychological aspects | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | BMJ Open | ||||||
Publisher: | BMJ | ||||||
ISSN: | 2044-6055 | ||||||
Official Date: | 15 December 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 12 | ||||||
Number: | 12 | ||||||
Article Number: | e065123 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065123 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 February 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 February 2023 |
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