The Impact of Nursing Characteristics and the Work Environment on Perceptions of Communication

Table 3

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis predicting openness of communication (𝑛=135).

	Open communication among nurses				Open communication between nurses and physicians
	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)
Constant	5.542	.000	4.983	.000	3.007	.000	0.361	.375
LPN(RN =0)	0.637	.042	0.325	.245	0.141	.724	−0.47	.072
Education	0.14	.419	0.018	.908	0.454	.049	0.189	.197
Nights(day=0)	0.021	.914	−0.098	.572	0.033	.897	−0.119	.475
Evenings	−0.49	.087	−0.473	.061	−0.315	.400	−0.477	.048
Rotating	−0.6	.137	−0.213	.553	0.052	.922	−0.036	.916
Expertise	0.006	.917	0.001	.982	0.08	.302	−0.029	.569
Experience	0.009	.891	−0.035	.567	0.071	.425	0.125	.035
Environment			0.274	.000			0.797	.000
Unit B (Unit A= 0)			0.13	.537			0.088	.659
Unit C			−0.594	.009			0.397	.064
Unit D			−0.578	.011			0.493	.022
F(P)		1.580 (.148)		5.225 (.000)		1.481 (.180)		19.396 (.000)
𝑅^2		.084		.331		.079		.646
▵𝑅^2		.084		.247		.079		.567