Basic Competence of Intensive Care Unit Nurses: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Table 2

Characteristics of nurses ().

Background factors	Nurses
	Mean	SD	Min	Max
			%
Age ()	38	9.9	22	62
Gender ()
Female/male	356/65		84.6/15.4
Education ()
Nurse (Bachelor of Health Care)	227		52.9
Specialist nurse	95		22.1
Nurse	82		19.1
Others	25		5.8
Work experience (years) as a nurse in intensive and critical care ()	9.1	8.1	0.02	36
Other work experience as a nurse in health care ()	5.4	7.2	0	37
Continuing education in intensive care nursing ()
Yes	73		17.3
No	350		82.7
Participation in intensive care conferences and education days ()
Yes	307		71.7
No	121		28.3
Independent information retrieval of intensive and critical care nursing ()
Yes	400		93.9
No	26		6.1
Use of nursing journals in information retrieval of intensive and critical care nursing ()
Yes	367		86.0
(i) International scientific journals	67		18.3
(ii) National scientific journals	141		38.4
(iii) Professional journals	352		95.9
No	62		14.0
Work motivation (1–10) ()	8.1	1.5	2	10
Autonomy in nursing (1–10) ()	8.1	1.2	2	10
Special responsibility areas in the ICU ()
Yes	326		76.2
No	102		23.8