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

Table 4

Statistically significant background factors in relation to basic competence.

Background factor	value	Regression coefficient	Standard error	Mean of ICCN-CS-1	SD
Age ()	<0.0001^1	0.02	0.002
Education ()	<0.0001^2
Nurse (Bachelor of Health Care)				4.07	0.38
Specialist nurse				4.39	0.32
Nurse				4.35	0.36
Others				4.04	0.43
Work experience (years) as a nurse in intensive and critical care ()	<0.0001^3	0.02	0.002
Other work experience as a nurse in health care ()	0.0004^1	0.01	0.003
Continuing education in intensive care nursing ()	<0.0001^3
Yes				4.35	0.40
No				4.15	0.39
Participation in intensive care conferences and education days ()	<0.0001^3
Yes				4.30	0.35
No				3.92	0.39
Independent information retrieval of intensive and critical care nursing ()	0.0001^3
Yes				4.21	0.39
No				3.90	0.43
Use of nursing journals ()	<0.0001^3
Yes				4.23	0.38
No				4.00	0.43
Autonomy in nursing care (1–10) ()	<0.0001^1	0.16	0.01
Special responsibility areas in the ICU ()	<0.0001^3
Yes				4.28	0.36
No				3.90	0.39

¹Linear regression.
²One-way analysis of variance; Tukey’s adjusted values; nurse (BHC) versus specialist nurse (); nurse (BHC) versus nurse (); specialist nurse versus others (); nurse versus others ().
³Two-independent-sample -test.