Nurse Manager Practice Environment and Its Influencing Factors: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Scores for NM PE with different demographic characteristic.

Variables		Overall scores for nursing manager practice environment (mean ± SD)	t/F value	value
Hospital grade	Grade II hospital	223.30 ± 34.977	4.404	0.001
	Grade III hospital	239.32 ± 25.212
Hospital geographic location	District capital	240.17 ± 23.817	3.882	0.001
	Small city	228.77 ± 33.636
Gender	Male	234.71 ± 23.984	−0.305	0.761
	Female	236.79 ± 27.808
Age (years)	≤30	226.31 ± 45.256	3.042	0.049
	31–45	238.78 ± 26.704
	>45	232.40 ± 26.925
Working years	<5	239.83 ± 30.564	0.054	0.984
	6–10	236.66 ± 37.421
	11–15	235.99 ± 30.940
	>15	236.92 ± 24.690
Marital status	Married	237.50 ± 27.476	2.542	0.080
	Unmarried	224.62 ± 28.915
	Widowed/divorced	224.75 ± 27.854
Highest education	Junior college or below	227.67 ± 30.745	0.887	0.413
	Bachelor’s degree	236.88 ± 28.112
	Master’s degree and above	238.26 ± 23.053
Position title	Senior nurse	233.68 ± 35.725	0.361	0.781
	Supervisor nurse	237.59 ± 27.475
	Associate professor of nursing	235.36 ± 26.199
	Professor of nursing	241.71 ± 31.245
Weekly working hours(h)	≤40	239.68 ± 26.185	3.087	0.047
	41–59	237.81 ± 26.576
	≥60	228.17 ± 33.131
Training experience in higher ranked hospitals	Yes	232.48 ± 28.819	−3.508	0.001
	No	242.04 ± 25.143

Statistically significant.