Table 3.
Organizational Factors and Nurse-Reported Hazardous Drug Spills
| Spill Reported N= 51 (26%) |
Spill Not Reported N=199 (74%) |
P value* | |||
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Safety Organizing Scale | 5.2 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 1.0 | .03 |
| Nurse Participation in Practice Affairs | 2.8 | 0.9 | 3.1 | 0.9 | .05 |
| Nurse Manager Ability, Leadership, Support | 3.3 | 1.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | .04 |
| Collegial Nurse-Physician Relations | 3.8 | 0.9 | 4.0 | 0.8 | .15 |
| Staffing and Resource Adequacy | 3.3 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 1.0 | .50 |
| Nursing Foundations for Quality of Care | 4.1 | 0.4 | 4.3 | 0.6 | .09 |
| Supportive Medical Assistant Relations | 3.6 | 1.0 | 3.9 | 0.87 | .15 |
| Barriers to Protective Equipment Use | 3.0 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 0.5 | .03 |
| Nursing Workload | 10.0 | 12.0 | 8.0 | 6.0 | .29 |
| Years of Oncology Experience | 13.0 | 9.6 | 13.0 | 9.5 | .66 |
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| Ownership | N | Percent | N | Percent | P value† |
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| Non-Profit | 27 | 52.9 | 114 | 59.4 | .41 |
| Private, For-Profit | 24 | 47.1 | 78 | 40.6 | |
*
p values obtained from independent sample t-tests.
†
p values obtained from Likelihood Ratio Chi-square tests. SD: standard deviation.