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| | Meaning unit | Code | Subcategory | Category |
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| Motivation | Having some say over daily working hours, duties and long-term shift arrangements is an important motivator | Ability to control working hours | Influence over working hours | Organization characteristics |
| ITL | The desire for a job that does not require that almost all off-duty time be used for recovery. A job without weekend or night shifts that allows me to spend weekends and holidays with my family and friends | Call for work that enables private and family life | Working hours affect private and family life | Organization characteristics |
| Turnover | I was no longer able to cope with constantly changing working hours and shifts, the sense that I never had time to get everything done, to do the job I was supposed to be doing | Unsustainable scheduling | Difficulty to combine work with private life | Organization characteristics |
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| Motivation | That, as a nurse, you have the time and opportunity to develop knowledge and skills. A career ladder: which paths and opportunities are open to me? A good salary. Responsive managers that take matters seriously | Opportunities for professional development in nursing | Development and challenges | Work characteristics |
| ITL | Nursing is a demanding and responsible career that can be burdensome at times. Even at home, it can be difficult to stop thinking about work | Demanding and distressing work | Emotional and physically distressing work | Work characteristics |
| Turnover | There is no time to be the nurse I want to be. Sometimes I am completely drained after having responsibility for almost 50 patients | No chances to perform the care I believe in | No opportunity for nursing care | Work characteristics |
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| Motivation | The most important factor for engendering commitment and motivation is a pleasant work climate: understanding and helpful colleagues, and a manager who is responsive, fair, sympathetic, humble and capable of leading the team | Pleasant work climate | Well-functioning team collaboration | Relationships at work |
| ITL | Does not enjoy the job because of the high workload and poor climate between colleagues, and between colleagues and management | Bad collegial climate | Lack of teamwork | Relationships at work |
| Turnover | I had no possibilities to influence my work situation and the work environment was too hierarchical | Hierarchies in healthcare | Hierarchical collegial structure | Relationships at work |
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| Motivation | I consider appreciation of the work one does to be vital to wellbeing. The most important factor is an adequate salary. This is why I have worked as a travel nurse for the last two and a half years. This provides me with a good salary. I can influence my own working hours and I am appreciated at work every day | Good and fair salary | Fair salary | Recognition |
| ITL | In my current workplace, there is little possibility to affect my salary even if I continuously develop my competence and take on greater responsibility | Little opportunity to affect salary | No influence on the salary | Recognition |
| Turnover | The working hours and high workload cause ill health. I no longer wish to work for the regional health authority because of the poor pay and dreadful salary development | Poor pay and salary development | Not the right salary for the job performed | Recognition |
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| ITL | The stress of my job affects me physically. I don’t want to become ill with stress. I would like to have a job without responsibility for other people’s health. The responsibility is too great | Worries about the own health | Fear of developing health issues | Health issues |
| Turnover | Stress and the dreadful working conditions, with such weak leadership, made me ill […]. I didn’t see how I could ever be well as long as I remained in the profession | Didn’t think I could stay and get well | Health negatively affected | Health issues |
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