Table 7.

Regressing Nurse Continuity and Nurse Staffing Variables on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPUs) (N = 840)^a

Outcome	Predictor	Coefficient	SE	z	P > [z]
HAPUs	Nurse Continuity	.35	.39	0.90	0.37
	Experience	−.09	.40	−0.23	0.82
	BSNb	−.14	.37	−0.38	0.70
	Load (patient- to-nurse ratio)	−.06	.12	−0.47	0.64
	Eight-hour shifts	.22	.30	0.73	0.46
	Very part-time	1.09	1.24	0.88	0.38
	Whppdc	−.00	.05	−0.02	0.98

^aAnalytic dataset contains episodes with and without HAPUs (matched controls) using the patient characteristics, units, and patient age as the similarity measure

^bBSN = Bachelor of Science in Nursing

^cWhppd = Worked hours per patient day