Replication data for: Factors associated with nurses leaving their hospital team: a protocol for a cohort study using routinely collected data

This study is part of a project that aims to lay the foundation for developing a tool to help hospitals identify potential retention issues at an early stage and select appropriate interventions. The first study within this project was an integrative review, which showed that although many studies have investigated factors associated with nurse retention or turnover, the focus has primarily been on individual and organizational factors, with less attention paid to team-level factors.

However, it is expected that team factors—such as team climate, leadership, teamwork, and communication—also play a significant role in nurse retention. A second observation from the literature is that many analyses assume that individual-level observations are independent of team-level observations, whereas it is likely that individual and team-level factors are interrelated, and that the team context influences the retention of individual nurses.