Table 3. Patient safety competencies of school clinical instructors (N = 38).
| Variables | Categories | N (%) | Patient safety competency | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total score | Attitude | Skill | Knowledge | ||||||||||||
| M±SD | t/F | p | M±SD | t/F | p | M±SD | t/F | p | M±SD | t/F | p | ||||
| Age (year) | ≤ 30 | 17 (44.7) | 4.08±0.39 | 0.15 | .860 | 4.43±0.42 | 0.51 | .608 | 4.11±0.46 | 0.19 | .827 | 3.15±0.69 | 0.03 | .968 | |
| 31–35 | 15 (39.5) | 4.08±0.40 | 4.52±0.29 | 4.05±0.60 | 3.14±0.67 | ||||||||||
| ≥ 36 | 6 (15.8) | 3.98±0.36 | 4.34±0.45 | 3.96±0.42 | 3.22±0.73 | ||||||||||
| Educational level | BSN | 10 (26.3) | 4.11±0.49 | 0.27 | .762 | 4.37±0.43ab | 3.33 | .048 | 4.20±0.55 | 0.55 | .583 | 3.17±0.87 | 0.06 | .939 | |
| MSN | 24 (63.2) | 4.07±0.35 | 4.55±0.33b | a<b | 4.00±0.51 | 3.17±0.60 | |||||||||
| PhD | 4 (10.5) | 3.94±0.36 | 4.08±0.27a | 4.10±0.36 | 3.04±0.71 | ||||||||||
| Clinical career | Novice & Advanced beginner | 13 (34.2) | 3.87±0.34 | 1.91 | .147 | 4.33±0.35 | 0.72 | .546 | 3.80±0.50 | 2.15 | .112 | 3.01±0.46 | 2.30 | .095 | |
| Competent | 16 (42.1) | 4.15±0.39 | 4.53±0.38 | 4.16±0.49 | 3.22±0.73 | ||||||||||
| Proficient | 5 (13.2) | 4.18±0.43 | 4.53±0.47 | 4.34±0.43 | 2.80±0.89 | ||||||||||
| Expert | 4 (10.5) | 4.21±0.31 | 4.43±0.35 | 4.18±0.48 | 3.83±0.14 | ||||||||||
| Teaching career | Novice | 18 (47.4) | 4.17±0.45 | 1.52 | .227 | 4.50±0.38 | 1.50 | .233 | 4.19±0.59 | 0.87 | .468 | 3.33±0.76 | 0.98 | .412 | |
| Advanced beginner | 14 (36.8) | 3.97±0.27 | 4.43±0.36 | 3.94±0.42 | 3.01±0.48 | ||||||||||
| Competent | 5 (13.2) | 4.06±0.28 | 4.51±0.32 | 4.05±0.36 | 3.07±0.79 | ||||||||||
| Proficient | 1 (2.6) | 3.49±0.00 | 3.71±0.00 | 3.62±0.00 | 2.50±0.00 | ||||||||||
| Education on patient safety |
Received | 22 (57.9) | 4.23±0.34 | 3.49 | < .001 | 4.54±0.33 | 1.80 | .080 | 4.26±0.47 | 3.05 | .004 | 3.38±0.61 | 2.55 | .015 | |
| Not received | 1 6(42.1) | 3.84±0.33 | 4.33±0.41 | 3.80±0.44 | 2.85±0.65 | ||||||||||
Novice: ≤12 months, Advanced beginner: 13–36 months, Competent: 37–72 months, Proficient: 73–120 months, Expert: ≥121 months, Values with different small alphabetic letters (a, ab, b) as superscripts are significantly different by the Scheffe’s F test (p<0.05).