Abstract:
This study investigated the environment of registered nurses in hopes of gaining an
understanding of turnover intentions. Registered nurses from Eastern Kansas were surveyed to
gain perspective on perceptions of workplace bullying, abusive supervision, and workplace
autonomy in an attempt to understand what may be contributing to turnover. Variables were
selected and explored with the oppression theory framework. The goal is to create solutions that
will help retain talent in the Nursing field. There were 33 registered nurses who participated in
this study. Nurses were surveyed on peer to peer hostility, physician support, abusive
supervision, job characteristics, turnover intentions, and burnout. The results indicate that
abusive supervision had the strongest relationship with the turn over intentions
(b = .67, p <.001). Generalization of the results should be cautioned as the sample size was low
and convenience sampling was used.
