Nurses’ Job Preferences: A Systematic Review of Discrete Choice Experiments

作者：Ting Cao, Huan Chen, Shi Chen, Xinyu Chen, Xianying Lu, Dingxi Bai, Yuhang Li, Zihao Song, Chaoming Hou, Jing Gao · 发表于：International Nursing Review · 年份：2025 · DOI：10.1111/inr.70117 · 被引用次数：4 · 研究领域：Economic and Environmental Valuation、Nursing education and management、Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes

AIM: To systematically review the research on the application of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in nurses' job preferences. BACKGROUND: As essential frontline healthcare professionals, nurses experience disproportionately high turnover rates globally. This persistent challenge undermines workforce stability, compromises patient care quality, and increases organisational costs. Understanding the underlying factors that influence nurses' job preferences is therefore critical to developing effective recruitment and retention strategies. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) provide a robust methodological framework for quantifying these preferences and revealing how nurses value different job attributes. METHODS: Ten electronic databases were systematically searched from inception until March 1, 2025. Two researchers independently used the purpose, respondents, explanation, findings, and significance (PREFS) checklist to evaluate the quality of the included studies. Thematic analysis was used to classify the attributes of nurses' job preferences into broad categories and subcategories; the frequency, significance, relative importance, and willingness-to-pay of each attribute in the included studies were analyzed. RESULTS: Twenty-one articles spanning nine countries were included, with a total of 140 individual attributes extracted and divided thematically into three broad categories and eight subcategories. Existence needs, including income, working environment, job stability, ...