Table 2.
Reflection text results
| Nurses with less than 5 years of neonatal nursing experience (n = 24) | Nurses with 5 or more years of neonatal nursing experience (n = 19) | |||||
| Three-Staged Recognition | Sensuous recognition | Presentative recognition | Conceptual recognition | Sensuous recognition | Presentative recognition | Conceptual recognition |
| Average line length (number of characters) | 333.6 | 271.9 | 105.9 | 396.5 | 282.1 | 105.4 |
| Total number of sentences | 197 | 163 | 87 | 178 | 129 | 63 |
| Average sentence length (number of characters) | 87.6 | 71.9 | 57.7 | 85.3 | 76.2 | 63.7 |
| Number of words | 1491 | 1182 | 484 | 1422 | 959 | 381 |
| Number of word types | 929 | 688 | 321 | 952 | 599 | 277 |
| Noun | 934 | 732 | 327 | 914 | 626 | 256 |
| Common noun | 518 | 337 | 167 | 471 | 289 | 136 |
| Pronoun | 41 | 51 | 10 | 46 | 40 | 9 |
| Adverbial noun | 75 | 28 | 4 | 47 | 26 | 6 |
| Verb formed by adding “suru” to a noun | 198 | 185 | 102 | 261 | 160 | 72 |
| Adjective verb stem | 47 | 84 | 32 | 42 | 68 | 25 |
| Other | 55 | 47 | 12 | 47 | 43 | 8 |
| Verb | 368 | 295 | 120 | 338 | 220 | 92 |
| Stand-alone verb | 368 | 295 | 120 | 338 | 220 | 92 |
| Part of speech other than noun or verb | 189 | 155 | 37 | 170 | 113 | 33 |
| Stand-alone adjective | 48 | 20 | 3 | 39 | 35 | 4 |
| Common adverb/postpositional particle connection | 75 | 65 | 18 | 80 | 48 | 10 |
| Other part of speech | 66 | 70 | 16 | 51 | 30 | 19 |