Table 1

Characteristics of hospital-based nurse respondents (N=3986)

	N	%
Practice setting
Medical and surgical	2439	61.2
Intensive care unit	1547	38.8
RN education
BSN or higher	3215	80.7
Non-BSN	771	19.3
RN years of experience
0–5 years	1637	41.1
6–10 years	779	19.5
11–15 years	437	11.0
>15 years	1132	28.4

BSN, bachelor’s of science in nursing; RN, registered nurse.