Table 1.
Study hospital structural and nursing characteristics (N=564)
| Kaiser (n=25) | Non-Magnet (n=483) |
Magnet (n=56) |
Kaiser vs. Non-Magnet |
Kaiser vs. Magnet |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital Characteristics | Mean (SD)* | P value | |||
| Number of beds | 252 (105) | 261 (197) | 398 (195) | 0.8193 | <0.001 |
| High technology status, n (%) | 3 (12) | 209 (43.3) | 39 (69.6) | 0.002 | <0.001 |
| Nonprofit ownership, n (%) | 25 (100) | 381 (78.9) | 56 (100) | 0.010 | -- |
| State, n (%) | <0.001 | <0.001 | |||
| New Jersey | 0 (0) | 52(10.8) | 18(32.1) | ||
| Pennsylvania | 0 (0) | 123 (25.5) | 11 (19.6) | ||
| Florida | 0 (0) | 124 (25.7) | 17 (30.4) | ||
| California | 25 (100) | 184 (38.1) | 10 (17.9) | ||
| Teaching status, n (%) | 0.249 | 0.392 | |||
| Major | 2 (8) | 34 (7) | 9 (16.1) | ||
| Minor | 14 (56) | 194 (40.2) | 23 (41.1) | ||
| Nonteaching | 9 (36) | 255 (52.8) | 24 (42.9) | ||
| Hospital nursing characteristics | |||||
| Nurse Work Environment (PES-NWI) | 2.85 (.15) | 2.65 (.22) | 2.86 (.18) | <0.001 | 0.7572 |
| Staffing, patients per nurse | 4.03 (.69) | 5.10 (1.1) | 4.82 (.73) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Proportion of nurses with at least a BSN | .50 (.12) | .39 (.14) | .46 (.12) | <0.001 | 0.1685 |
| Skill mix (RNs/all licensed staff) | .81 (.05) | .75 (.07) | .75 (.04) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Supplemental nurse staffing | .04(.03) | .05 (.05) | .04(.05) | 0.5772 | 0.4720 |
| Proportion of medical-surgical unit | .18(.09) | .17(.09) | .16(.07) | 0.6744 | 0.3581 |
| Proportion of intensive care unit nurses | .14(.09) | .17(.09) | .17(.06) | 0.1404 | 0.1059 |
| Proportion of non-U.S. educated nurses | .27(.16) | .14(.15) | .15(.11) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
| Age in years | 44.26(3.03) | 44.88(3.23) | 43.26(2.85) | 0.8227 | 0.5339 |
| Years of experience at current hospital | 11.35(2.01) | 11.38(2.96) | 11.47(2.91) | 0.9545 | 0.8420 |
| Proportion of female nurses | .91(.05) | .93(.05) | .94(.04) | 0.0765 | 0.006 |
*
unless indicated otherwise as the n and percentage under Hospital Characteristics.
BSN = Bachelor of Science in Nursing; PES-NWI = Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index; RNs = registered nurses.