Predictors of specialty certification among paediatric hospital nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Aims and objectives

To evaluate differences in hospitals' proportion of specialty certified nurses and to determine whether and to what extent individual nurse characteristics and organisational hospital characteristics are associated with a nurse's likelihood of having specialty certification.

Background

Prior research has shown that patients in hospitals with high proportions of specialty certified nurses have better outcomes including lower mortality and fewer adverse events, yet less is known about what motivates nurses to obtain specialty certification.

Methods and design

Cross-sectional study of paediatric nurses in 119 acute care hospitals. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to determine the association between individual nurse characteristics, o

SUBMITTER: Lasater KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7880550 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature