The purpose of this study is to investigate the nursing work environment, job embeddedness, and intention of retention of nurses. The subjects of this study were 132 nurses who agreed to participate in the study among the general hospital nurses in B city. The data collection period was from February 01, 2018 to February 15, 2018. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS Win 21.0 program. By the general characteristics of the participants, in nursing work environment there were differences in sex(t=-5.551, p<.001), total clinical career(F=4.434, p=.002), job position(t=2.549, p=.012), working department(F=4.298, p=.001), salary level(F=9.009, p<.001), future hope working period(F=4.661, p=.002), job turnover experience for one year(F=9.818, p<.001), and job satisfaction(F=15.013, p<.001). There was statistically significant difference in job embeddedness according to the future hope working period(F=6.499, p<.001), job turnover experience for one year(F=3.449, p=.019), and job satisfaction(F=15.900, p<.001). Intention of retention was significant difference according to the total clinical career(F=2.602, p=.039), hospital beds(F=2.779, p=.044), future hope working period(F=3.638, p=.008), and job satisfaction(F=4.848, p=.003). The nursing work environment of the subjects was 2.46 ± 0.39, the degree of job embeddedness was 2.96 ± 0.47, and the degree of intention of retention was 5.21±.77. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between the nursing work environment and the job embeddedness(r=.673, p<.001), and intention of retention(r=.314, p<.001), between the job embeddedness, and intention of retention(r=.410, p<.001).