Table 1.
Characteristics of the study group (n = 581)
| Variables | “Do you intend to emigrate from Poland to another country to take up work there?” n (%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Total | |
| Total | 172 (100) | 409 (100) | 581 (100) |
| Please, specify whether you have worked abroad as a nurse: | |||
| Yes | 44 (26) | 28 (7) | 72 (12) |
| No | 110 (64) | 361 (88) | 471 (81) |
| Occupation other than a nurse [caretakers of the elderly (n = 26), nursing assistant (n = 6), seasonal work or catering facilities (n = 6)] | 18 (10) | 20 (5) | 38 (7) |
| Please, indicate one major phenomenon which makes practising the profession of a nurse in Poland hardly attractive | |||
| Low remuneration in comparison with great responsibility and social expectations | 132 (77) | 291 (71) | 423 (73) |
| Great mental and physical load caused by an insufficient number of personnel in relation to the number of patients | 24 (14) | 63 (16) | 87 (15) |
| Low level of social respect for people practising the profession of a nurse | 16 (9) | 55 (15) | 71 (12) |
| Sex | |||
| Women | 149 (87) | 386 (94) | 535 (92) |
| Men | 23 (13) | 23 (6) | 46 (8) |
| Age, years | |||
| 20–25 | 21 (12) | 19 (5) | 40 (7) |
| 26–31 | 31 (18) | 38 (9) | 69 (12) |
| 32–37 | 31 (18) | 66 (16) | 97 (17) |
| 38–43 | 43 (25) | 131 (32) | 174 (30) |
| 44–49 | 27 (16) | 96 (24) | 123 (21) |
| 50+ | 19 (11) | 59 (14) | 78 (13) |
| Place of residence | |||
| Village | 22 (13) | 86 (21) | 108 (19) |
| City with less than 20 k inhabitants | 22 (13) | 56 (14) | 78 (13) |
| City with less than 50 k inhabitants | 18 (10) | 63 (15) | 81 (14) |
| City with 50–100 k inhabitants | 25 (14) | 53 (13) | 78 (13) |
| City with 500 k to 1 m inhabitants | 41 (24) | 82 (20) | 123 (21) |
| City above 1 m inhabitants | 44 (26) | 69 (17) | 113 (20) |
| Marital status | |||
| Married | 97 (56) | 302 (74) | 399 (68) |
| Informal relationship | 43 (25) | 54 (13) | 97 (17) |
| No relationship | 32 (19) | 53 (13) | 85 (15) |
| Net earnings (PLN) per month ($US 1 = 3.7 PLN) | |||
| Under 2,000 | 55 (32) | 81 (20) | 136 (23) |
| 2,000–3,000 | 88 (51) | 219 (54) | 307 (53) |
| 3,000–4,000 | 20 (12) | 71 (17) | 91 (16) |
| 4,000–5,000 | 7 (4) | 29 (7) | 36 (6) |
| 5,000 or above | 2 (1) | 8 (2) | 10 (2) |
| Assessment of own material standing | |||
| Very bad | 9 (5) | 6 (2) | 15 (2) |
| Bad | 55 (32) | 41 (10) | 96 (17) |
| Satisfactory | 83 (48) | 185 (45) | 268 (46) |
| Good | 24 (14) | 161 (39) | 185 (32) |
| Very good | 1 (1) | 16 (4) | 17 (3) |
| Number of workplaces | |||
| One | 108 (63) | 281 (69) | 389 (67) |
| Two | 50 (29) | 97 (24) | 147 (25) |
| Three | 13 (7) | 28 (6) | 41 (7) |
| Four or more | 1 (1) | 3 (1) | 4 (1) |
| Place of employment (multiple choice question) | |||
| Public hospital | 135 (79) | 271 (66) | 406 (70) |
| Not public hospital | 21 (12) | 49 (12) | 70 (12) |
| Public primary healthcare | 16 (9) | 41 (10) | 57 (10) |
| Not public primary healthcare | 22 (13) | 64 (16) | 86 (15) |
| Working years (mean = 17.66; standard deviation = 9.88; median = 19; mode = 20; n mode = 37) | |||
| Up to one year | 13 (8) | 15 (4) | 28 (5) |
| 1–5 | 39 (23) | 38 (9) | 77 (13) |
| 6–10 | 15 (9) | 33 (8) | 48 (8) |
| 11–15 | 23 (13) | 50 (12) | 73 (13) |
| 16–20 | 29 (17) | 77 (19) | 106 (18) |
| 21–25 | 23 (13) | 85 (21) | 108 (19) |
| 26–30 | 18 (10) | 65 (16) | 83 (14) |
| 31–35 | 9 (5) | 39 (10) | 48 (8) |
| 36–40 | 1 (1) | 7 (2) | 8 (1) |
| Hospital ward profile (multiple choice question) | 143 (100) | 303 (100) | 446 (100) |
| ICU | 33 (23) | 47 (16) | 80 (18) |
| Surgical, including cardiac surgery, oncological surgery, neurosurgery, trauma and general surgery | 19 (13) | 37 (12) | 56 (13) |
| Internal medicine | 15 (10) | 31 (10) | 46 (10) |
| Cardiology | 11 (8) | 22 (7) | 33 (7) |
| Operating theatre | 9 (6) | 22 (7) | 31 (7) |
| Paediatric | 9 (6) | 24 (8) | 33 (7) |
| Other | 120 (84) | 47 (16) | 167 (37) |