Recent Findings from Jilin University Has Provided New Data on Nursing (Retirement planning: the perceptions of pre-retirement nurses within different hospitals in China)

2019 DEC 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- Investigators publish new report on Nursing. According to news reporting from Jilin, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This study explored the perceptions of senior Chinese nurses working in different hospital types, about retirement planning; and compared the results from two hospitals. A recent review indicates that nurses with inadequate retirement planning could be faced with a retirement crisis.”

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Jilin University, “In China, hospitals are classified into different levels, and salaries, job satisfaction and the turnover of nurses varies among these levels. These factors may also influence nurses’ perceptions of retirement planning. In a descriptive, qualitative design, 27 semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with nurses who were between 50 and 60 years old and recruited from two hospitals in China from April to September 2018. The interviews were transcribed and analysed thematically. Four main themes emerged from the interviews, namely, the understanding of pre-retirement nurses of retirement planning, the attitudes of pre-retirement nurses towards retirement planning, factors influencing nurses’ retirement planning and the retirement planning activity of nurses. Most nurses participating in this study did not know much about retirement planning, but they all agreed on its importance. We identified the influencing factors of retirement planning and several differences regarding the perceptions of nurses about retirement planning in different hospitals. In this cohort of nurses, planning for a good retirement was thought to be important; however, their readiness for retirement and the influences around planning for retirement were varied in type and scope. Governments and employing hospitals should develop reasonable measures and policies to support nurses in their understanding of the benefits of retirement planning and help them to prepare for retirement. Information about retirement planning should be made available and options for planning explained.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Any systematic hurdles to retirement planning should be mitigated or eliminated.”

For more information on this research see: Retirement planning: the perceptions of pre-retirement nurses within different hospitals in China. International Nursing Review, 2019;():. International Nursing Review can be contacted at: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - http://www.wiley.com/; International Nursing Review - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1466-7657)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting H. Li, Basic Nursing Division, School of Nursing, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Z. Xing, Y. Li, Z. Wan, D. Sun, M. Zhao and J. Sun.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12560. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Publisher contact information for the journal International Nursing Review is: Blackwell Publishing Inc, 350 Main St, Malden, MA 02148, USA.

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