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Developing job crafting skills among nurses can be a proactive strategy to mitigate these issues, leading to a more engaged and committed workforce. The aim of this study was to analyze nurses\u2019 job crafting and its relationship with the intention to stay at their working hospitals or to leave the nursing profession. Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted with a sample of 284 registered nurses using a self-reported online questionnaire with the standardized Spanish version of the Job Crafting Scale. Mann\u2013Whitney U and Kruskal\u2013Wallis nonparametric tests were used to determine statistically significant differences between two or more different groups for the job crafting variable, respectively. The Spearman correlation coefficient was calculated to explore the relationships between variables. Results: Mean scores obtained for the Job Crafting Scale indicated that nurses in the study had a high level of job crafting. Nurses with lower scores for the \u2018Decreasing hindering job demands\u2019 subscale had a significantly lower intention to stay at their workplace. Greater \u2018Decreasing hindering job demands\u2019 scores were significantly associated with a lower intention to leave the nursing profession. Lower nurses\u2019 intention to leave the nursing profession was significantly associated with a greater intention to stay at hospitals. Conclusions: Improving \u2018Decreasing hindering job demands\u2019 job crafting skills to \u201cdecrease hindering job demands\u201d through workload management, time management training, supportive supervision, resource availability, autonomy encouragement, promotion of team collaboration, and mental health support. It could lead to greater retention of nurses in their workplaces and in the nursing profession. Nursing managers and leaders should consider improving the job crafting skill \u201cDecrease Hindering Job Demands\u201d among nurses as a potential strategy for effective retention of nurses to address the challenges of the global nursing shortage.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nursrep14040249","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,12]],"date-time":"2024-11-12T09:36:51Z","timestamp":1731404211000},"page":"3436-3444","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["The Influence of Job Crafting on Nurses\u2019 Intent to Stay: A Cross-Sectional Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8367-9220","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"M\u00aa Carmen","family":"Rodr\u00edguez-Garc\u00eda","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain"},{"name":"Research Group CTS-1127 Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Almeria, 04120 Almeria, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"\u00c1ngeles","family":"Ramos-Mart\u00ednez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Distrito Sanitario Almer\u00eda, Servicio Andaluz de Salud, Junta de Andaluc\u00eda, 04120 Almeria, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3842-9449","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Celia","family":"Cruz-Cobo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of C\u00e1diz, 11009 C\u00e1diz, Spain"},{"name":"Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation of C\u00e1diz (INiBICA), 11009 C\u00e1diz, Spain"},{"name":"Research Group on Nutrition, Molecular, Pathophysiological and Social Issues, University of C\u00e1diz, 11009 C\u00e1diz, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,11,11]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"46958017724944","DOI":"10.1177\/0046958017724944","article-title":"Nurses\u2019 burnout: The influence of leader empowering behaviors, work conditions, and demographic traits","volume":"54","author":"Mudallal","year":"2017","journal-title":"INQUIRY"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"12","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ijnurstu.2016.01.007","article-title":"Characteristics of shift work and their impact on employee performance and well-being: A literature review","volume":"57","author":"Ball","year":"2016","journal-title":"Int. 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