The Organizational Trust and its Relation to Staff Nurse Retention in their job

Background : Higher organizational performance and competitiveness are linked to trust in the workplace. Also, it improves patient care and institutional operations. It improves nurses' job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and productivity, encourages cooperation, effective communication, and compensates for their inadequate skills. Aim: assessing the organizational trust and its relation to staff nurse retention in their job. Research design: A descriptive correlational research design was used. Setting : The study was conducted at the Health Insurance Hospital in Minia city, Egypt. Subjects: The sample included all staff nurses working at Health Insurance Hospitals. Their total numbers were 222 nurses. Tools : two self-administrated tools: Tool (I): Organizational Trust Scale: included two parts: Part 1: Socio-demographic data &Part 2: Organizational Trust Scale and Tool (II): Staff Nurse Retention Scale: Intent to Stay. Results : half of the nursing staff had high level of organization trust, and more than half had moderate level. On the other hand more than two third had moderate level of intension to stay. Conclusion: There were positive correlation between organization trust of nursing with their intension to stay and it’s domains. Recommendation: to keep staff nurses in the hospital, job involvement needs to be more included, decrease workload, promote support and, quality & safety, and increase job satisfaction.