Linking Nurses’ Job Embeddedness and Self-Efficacy to Locus of Control

Locus of control is associated with self-efficacy and job embeddedness which empowers individuals to feel confident in their decisions and engage in organizational activities. This topical review provides evidence for a proposed conceptual model to increase retention of nurses by linking locus of control, self-efficacy and job embeddedness. This approach may facilitate the process of hiring individuals who have an internal drive to be successful. Efforts to train those with an external locus of control to become more internally oriented may be possible and promote retention. Implications of including these concepts in nursing education may improve nursing leader awareness of how self-efficacy and job embeddedness, in association with locus of control, may improve nursing retention.