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

Table 4

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

	Accuracy communication among nurses				Accuracy communication between nurses and physicians
	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)	𝛽	t(P)
constant	2.385	.000	2.952	.000	2.798	.000	3.34	.000
LPN (RN=0)	−0.994	.000	−0.801	.001	−0.217	.416	0.007	.977
Education	−0.059	.663	0.024	.855	−0.055	.721	0.058	.678
Nights (Day=0)	0.493	.002	0.549	.000	0.562	.001	0.647	.000
Evenings	0.295	.184	0.311	.142	0.408	.104	0.4	.080
Rotating	0.693	.027	0.577	.057	1	.005	0.724	.028
Expertise	0.03	.520	0.044	.319	−0.025	.629	−0.016	.744
Experience	−0.02	.705	−0.008	.880	−0.009	.883	0.024	.675
Environment			−0.202	.000			−0.241	.000
Unit B (unit A=0)			−0.098	.583			−0.116	.544
Unit C			0.121	.517			0.375	.065
Unit D			0.1	.600			0.399	.055
F(P)		5.026 (.000)		5.345 (.000)		2.790 (.010)		5.235 (.000)
𝑅^2		.231		.342		.141		.334
Δ𝑅^2		.231		.111		.141		.193