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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 23.
Published in final edited form as: AAOHN J. 2009 Apr;57(4):149–157. doi: 10.3928/08910162-20090401-04

Table 1. Work-Related Demographics (N = 655).

%
Type of work setting
 Education 34.5
 Acute care hospital 22.3
 Physician’s office, public health clinic, or
  freestanding ambulatory care center
9.0
 Long-term care facility 9.0
 Other 5.8
 Company, corporation, or work site 4.0
 Psychiatric facility 0.3
 Correctional facility 0.6
Currently work as a bedside nurse
 Yes 27.6
 No 56.2
Currently work in a management or supervi-
 sory position
 Yes 68.4
 No 20.2
Time spent in direct patient care activities
 None 11.2
 < 25% 17.1
 25% to 49% 23.7
 50% to 74% 28.2
 ≥ 75% 15.4
Schedule usually worked in main nursing job
 Regular daytime 61.8
 Regular night shift 0.6
 Regular evening shift 0.8
 Irregular schedule arranged by employer 8.2
 Irregular schedule arranged by
  employee
3.2
 Two-shift rotation (days/nights) 4.9
 Three-shift rotation (days/evening/nights) 1.4
 Other 5.8
Usual length of shift in main nursing job (hr)
 < 8 1.8
 8 72.4
 10 9.6
 12 7.5
 > 12 4.3
Times per month worked mandatory or un-
 planned overtime in main nursing job
 Never 16.2
 1 to 2 34.2
 3 to 4 22.4
 5 to 6 7.2
 7 to 8 3.4
 > 8 10.2
Average hours of overtime (combined)
 worked per month
 No overtime 20.9
 1 to 16 38.5
 17 to 24 11.8
 25 to 39 7.5
 40 to 56 5.8
 57 to 80 4.1
 > 80 4.0
Have other job(s) for pay in addition to main
 nursing job
 Yes 30.2
 No 67.0
Average hours worked per week in all jobs
 combined
 ≤ 20 4.1
 21 to 40 30.1
 41 to 60 53.9
 61 to 80 6.9
 ≥ 81 2.4
Philippine Nurses Association region
 National capital region (metropolitan
  Manila)
17.4
 I: Ilocos region 6.4
 II: Cagayan region 4.7
 III: Bataan region 2.7
 IV: Aurora region 2.9
 V: Albay region 3.4
 VI: Aklan region 8.9
 VII: Bohol region 3.5
 VIII: Leyte region 2.7
 IX: Basilan region 2.1
 X: Agusan region 20.9
 XI: Davao region 10.1
 XII: Cotabato region 13.0

Note. For each category, “missing” constitutes remainder of percentage to total 100%.