Research Article
Nurse Manager Practice Environment and Its Influencing Factors: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study
Table 1
Sociodemographic data of the investigated nurse managers.
| Variables | N = 405/means | Percentage/standard deviation |
| Hospital grade | Grade II hospital | 66 | 16.3 | Grade III hospital | 339 | 83.7 |
| Hospital geographic location | District capital | 282 | 69.6 | Small city | 123 | 30.4 |
| Gender | Male | 17 | 4.2 | Female | 388 | 95.8 |
| Age (years) | ≤30 | 13 | 3.2 | 31–45 | 286 | 70.6 | >45 | 106 | 26.2 |
| Working years | <5 | 6 | 1.5 | 6–10 | 35 | 8.6 | 11–15 | 103 | 25.4 | >15 | 261 | 64.4 |
| Marital status | Married | 380 | 93.8 | Unmarried | 13 | 3.2 | Widowed/divorced | 12 | 3.0 |
| Highest education | Junior college or below | 15 | 3.7 | Bachelor’s degree | 340 | 84.0 | Master’s degree and above | 50 | 12.3 |
| Position title | Senior nurse | 25 | 6.2 | Supervisor nurse | 243 | 60 | Associate professor of nursing | 130 | 32.1 | Professor of nursing | 7 | 1.7 |
| Weekly working hours(h) | ≤40 | 40 | 9.9 | 41–59 | 311 | 76.8 | ≥60 | 54 | 13.3 |
| Training experience in higher ranked hospitals | Yes | 226 | 55.8 | No | 179 | 44.2 |
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