Research Article
Work Interruption Experienced by Nurses during Medication Administration Process and Associated Factors, Northwest Ethiopia
Table 1
Sociodemographics, work environment, and perceptual characteristics of participants.
| Variables | Frequency | Percent |
| Gender | | | Male | 140 | 50.4 | Female | 138 | 49.6 | Age | | | ≤25 years | 34 | 12.2 | 26–30 years | 190 | 68.3 | 31–40 years | 43 | 15.5 | >40 years | 11 | 4.0 | Marital status | | | Single | 166 | 59.7 | Married | 95 | 34.2 | Divorced/widowed | 17 | 6.1 | Educational status | | | Diploma | 61 | 21.9 | B.S. | 217 | 78.1 | Professional experience | | | ≤5 years | 163 | 58.6 | 6–10 years | 88 | 31.7 | >10 years | 27 | 9.7 | Perceived risk of WIs | | | Perceived as no/low risk | 162 | 58.3 | Perceived as high risk | 116 | 41.7 | Unit type | | | Pediatric | 78 | 28.1 | Medical | 73 | 26.3 | Surgical | 75 | 27.0 | Gynecology | 23 | 10.4 | Ophthalmology | 29 | 8.3 | Day of week | | | Weekday | 197 | 70.9 | Weekend | 81 | 29.1 | Shift of day | | | Regular | 203 | 73.0 | Night | 75 | 27.0 | Time of medication round | | | 10 AM | 66 | 23.7 | 12 PM | 68 | 24.5 | 2 PM | 69 | 24.8 | 6 PM | 15 | 5.4 | 10 PM | 15 | 5.4 | 12 AM | 15 | 5.4 | 2 AM | 15 | 5.4 | 6 AM | 15 | 5.4 |
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