According to the “Nursing Career Resolution Survey” from Pathway Medical Staffing, sixty-one percent of nurse case managers and non-bedside nursing professionals plan to look for a new job in 2011, which was up seven percent from last year.

In December 2010 Pathway Medical Staffing surveyed nurse case managers and non-bedside nurses in the second annual “Nursing Career Resolution” survey. Respondents represented nurses from 31 states, two countries and a variety of non-bedside nursing disciplines. Some of the other key findings in the survey revealed:

More nurses looking for jobs closer to home with a better schedule.

Interestingly we discovered that nurses’ motivation for finding a new job has shifted slightly from last year.  Fewer nurses planned to find a new job for monetary gain, better benefits or more of a challenge than cited in the 2010 survey. The two motivating factors that increased the most from 2010 to 2011 were finding a job that is closer to home (up 21% from last year) and finding a job with a better schedule (up 33% from last year).

More nurses plan to semi-retire and look for project work in 2011.

This year’s survey also revealed nine percent of nurses surveyed plan to semi-retire and look for project or temporary work in 2011.  This figure is up by seventy percent from last year.

Nurses desire more autonomy and less micro-management.

Forty-three percent of nurses indicated that an opportunity for more autonomy and less micro-management would be motivation enough to change jobs.  This was closely followed by a chance to try a new area of nursing (35%) and finding a job that embraces the role of nursing more than their current job (31%).

Job seekers and healthcare employers can download the full Nursing Career Resolution Survey results for more details.

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