Effects of Nurses’ Perceptions of Patient Safety Rules and Procedures on Their Patient Safety Performance: The Mediating Roles of Communication about Errors and Coworker Support

Table 1

Sample demographic characteristics (N = 1,053).

Variables	Category	n	%	M	SD
Gender (n = 1,046)	Male	56	5.4
	Female	990	94.6
Age (n = 1,046)	20–29	606	57.9
	30–39	254	24.3
	40–49	146	14.0
	≥50	40	3.8
Employment status (n = 1,012)	Permanent	964	95.3
	Temporary	48	4.7
Work unit (n = 1,033)	Medical, surgical, or medical-surgical	454	44.0
	Critical care	188	18.2
	Perioperative	65	6.3
	Others^a	346	33.5
Hospital tenure in years				7.1	7.4
Unit tenure in years				3.9	4.4

Note. M, mean; SD, standard deviation. Sample size varied because of missing data. ^aOthers included emergency department, rehabilitation, pediatrics, obstetrics, psychiatry, outpatient, urology, labor and delivery, and multiple units.