Orn-Anong Wichaikhum

TL;DR: The nurse work environment is a significant feature contributing to nurse retention in Thai university hospitals and improving the work environment for nurses may lead to lower levels of job dissatisfaction, intention to leave, and burnout.

TL;DR: Improving nurse work environments and nurse staffing in Thai hospitals holds promise for reducing nurse burnout, thus improving nurse retention at the hospital bedside as well as potentially improving the quality of care.

TL;DR: A positive correlation with patient outcomes, such as patient identification errors, pressure ulcers, communication errors and patient complaints and with nurse outcomes of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization was found and a negative correlation between extended work hours and job satisfaction as a whole, intent to stay and organizational productivity was found.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that it is essential that nurses understand and be actively involved in national health policy development and that some of them had been involved directly in formulating health policy but most of them thought that they had not be involved directly.

TL;DR: The overall quality of nursing care and nursing competency was perceived to be at a high level, whereas nursing practice environment was at a favourable level, which provides important evidence for the use of measures and strategies to enhance the quality of Nursing care.