Benchmarking nurse outcomes in Australian Magnet® hospitals: cross-sectional survey

BMC Nursing

Table 1 Demographics

	N	%	Mean (SD)
Gender	2004
Female	1724	86.03
Male	203	10.13
I’d prefer not to say	77	3.84
Age (range 20–72)	1885		39.17 (11.38)
Under 25	212	11.25
25–34	547	29.02
35–44	484	25.68
45–54	439	23.29
55–64	180	9.55
65–74	23	1.22
Didn’t respond	119	5.91
Nursing grade^a	2004
Grade 5	1256	62.67
Grade 6	433	21.61
Grade 7	301	15.02
Grade 8	14	0.70
Highest nursing qualification	1965
Industry qualification (hospital-acquired)	150	7.63
Vocational education sector qualification (e.g. technical college)	140	7.12
Undergraduate degree	1040	52.93
Postgraduate certificate/diploma (university level)	473	24.07
Masters and above	162	8.24
Didn’t respond	39	1.95
Years in current facility (range 0–43)	1953		6.74 (6.61)
Less than 2 years	464	23.76
2 – under 5 years	444	22.73
5 – under 10 years	567	29.03
10 – under 20 years	352	18.02
20 years and over	126	6.45
Didn’t respond	51	2.54

^aNursing levels and titles differ between the 7 Australian jurisdictions. Grades were standardised to equate to the Queensland model, where increasing grade denotes increasing seniority and/or specialisation. Grade 5 = base grade registered nurse, Grade ¹⁴6 is usually more advanced specialty skills, Grade 7 is an advanced practice nurse e.g. nurse unit manager, clinical nurse consultant, senior clinical specialist, nurse educator or nurse researcher. Grade 8 is a nurse practitioner

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