Reporting Misconduct of a Coworker to Protect a Patient: A Comparison between Experienced Nurses and Nursing Students

Table 4

A comparison between the severity of the misconduct and the indices of internal and external whistleblowing for the undergraduate nursing students and the nurses, in the two vignettes.

	Possible range	Undergraduate nursing students ()		Nurses (3)
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Vignette 1-colleague
Severity of the misconduct	1–7	6.59	0.90	6.86	0.47	2.41*
Internal whistleblowing	2–8	6.31	1.39	5.95	1.44	−1.61
External whistleblowing	2–8	4.38	1.59	4.11	1.62	−1.08
Vignette 2-manager
Severity of the misconduct	1–7	6.74	0.56	6.89	0.39	1.95*
Internal whistleblowing	2–8	6.74	1.18	6.55	1.33	−0.99
External whistleblowing	2–8	5.21	1.75	4.89	1.81	−1.14

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