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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Nurs Stud. 2021 Jan 19;115:103841. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2020.103841

Table 2:

Infection prevention and control staffing and personnel characteristics by urban/rural location, weighted estimates

Total Urban Rural p-value

%

Type of Employment
 Full-time 83.0 81.9 89.5 0.024
 Part-Time 14.1 15.3 6.7 0.005
Clinical Licensure
 RN/NP 93.6 93.9 92.3 0.52
 LPN/LVN 3.0 2.4 6.8 0.023
Level of Education
 Associates 22.5 19.4 40.8 <0.001
 Bachelors 55.3 57.0 45.4 0.014
 Masters and above 16.4 18.1 6.4 <0.001
IPC Training or Certification
 Specific IPC training/certification received 63.9 65.7 53.2 0.009
 No specific IPC training 36.1 34.3 46.8 0.009
Responsibilities in Addition to IPC*
 Supervision of Clinical Services/Patient Coordination 63.0 65.1 51.0 0.002
 Quality Improvement 59.5 60.3 54.8 0.22
 Education/Training 55.5 56.7 48.2 0.06
 Clinical Administration/Management 54.5 55.3 49.9 0.24
 No one in charge of IPC at the agency 5.5 5.0 8.3 0.14

Mean (SD) p-value

Time Devoted to IPC, Hours 8.4 (30.25) 8.7 (27.46) 6.7 (14.52) 0.34

% p-value

Most Time-Consuming IPC Activities*
 Staff Education 85.7 86.6 80.7 0.07
 Collecting/reporting infection data 81.7 81.2 84.5 0.33
 Monitoring staff adherence to policy 72.1 73.1 66.4 0.13
 IPC policy development 26.7 26.0 31.0 0.22
 Monitoring staff vaccinations 16.1 16.5 13.7 0.39
 Vaccination of patients 14.8 13.7 21.2 0.028

IPC, infection prevention and control; LPN, licensed professional nurse; LVN, licensed vocational nurse; RN, registered nurse; NP, nurse practitioner. All data shown are weighted. % are column percentages. p-values are significant at α<0.05. Totals varied due to missing data or skip patterns. Column totals may not add to 100% due to:

*

response choices were select all that apply, or

responses were mutually exclusive but Other and Don’t Know categories are not shown.