The Composition and Case Study of the Nurses’ Voluntary Turnover Cost in China

Abstract

Nurses have the largest number of members of the four medical personnel, and the stability of the nurses is directly related to the quality of medical service, but countries around the world are faced with the high turnover rate of nurses. At present, Chinese research on the issue of nurses' resignation mainly focuses on the analysis of the variables and causes of nurses' resignation, while there is little research related to the turnover costs of nurses which the managers focus on most. All these problems lead to the fact that there is still no consensus and cognition on composition and measurement methods of turnover costs and the harm of the organizations. Based on the literature research, this paper summarizes the composition and measurement of the voluntary turnover cost of Chinese nurses and draws the main constituent elements and feasible measurement methods of the nurses' voluntary turnover cost. Furthermore, this paper takes a military hospital in Beijing as an example and shows the composition and measurement methods of turnover cost by the actual measurement of the nurses' turnover costs in this hospital. Hope this paper can provide some reference for the future theoretical research and medical practice.