Table 2.

Nurse Characteristics and Nurse Value-Added (NVA), N = 957

Variables	NVA
Education: Associate degree	0.364 (0.23)
Education: Bachelor degree or higher	0.554* (0.04)
Expertise level: CNII	−0.004 (0.99)
Expertise level: CNIII/CNIV	0.657* (0.03)
Tenure at hospital	0.036 (0.08)
Age	−0.003 (0.75)
Sex: male	0.298 (0.32)
R-squared	0.070

Note. Shown are regression coefficients from an ordinary least squares regression NVA and nurse characteristics using the sample of N = 957 nurses; the model also included unit level fixed effects; the estimates are adjusted for correlated errors at the unit level.

Robust p-values are in parentheses,

^*<.05.