Revealing a gap in the clinical competence of nursing staff in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study with the Ms. Olsen test

Table 8 Correlations between clinical competence and background variables

Background variable	Clinical competence¹¹ Total (n = 337)		Clinical competence¹¹ RN (n = 95)		Clinical competence¹¹ PN (n = 242)
Background variable	Correlation coefficient	p	Correlation coefficient	p	Correlation coefficient	p
Gender¹	0.034	0.540	0.120	0.249	-0.011	0.870
Age in year	0.187^**	0.001	0.207^*	0.044	0.178^**	0.006
Education²	-0.067	0.217	0.046	0.656	-0.055	0.393
Profession³	-0.066	0.231	-0.050	0.631	-0.018	0.783
Work place⁴	0.039	0.473	0.102	0.102	0.018	0.776
Ownership⁵	-0.086	0.115	-0.140	0.178	-0.056	0.388
Position type⁶	0.057	0.295	-0.056	0.591	0.099	0.125
Position size in %	-0.080	0.146	-0.037	0.722	-0.079	0.225
Years in elderly care	0.118^*	0.031	0.205^*	0.046	0.074	0.252
Years in current work place	0.104	0.058	0.087	0.404	0.104	0.109
Mother tongue⁷	0.331^**	0.000	0.350^**	0.001	0.322^**	0.000
Working language⁸	0.395^**	0.000	0.415^**	0.000	0.386^**	0.000
Selfevaluation of clinical competence⁹	0.005	0.928	0.218^*	0.034	-0.066	0.313
Continuing education during worktime (days/year)	-0.059	0.281	-0.008	0.942	-0.077	0.236
Continuing education outside work (days/year)	-0.132^*	0.016	0.007	0.946	-0.185^**	0.004
Finnish Current Care Guidelines¹⁰	-0.078	0.154	-0.097	0.351	-0.063	0.328
Swedish Current Care Guidelines¹⁰	0.194^**	0.000	0.330^**	0.001	0.143^*	0.026
Google¹⁰	-0.085	0.118	-0.206^*	0.045	-0.032	0.624

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)
** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
Classification of the categories on ordinal level:
¹Gender: 1 = Male; 2 = Female
²Education: 1 = Practical Nurse; 2 = Specialist vocational in elderly care; 3 = Bachelor in Social work; 4 = Bachelor in Nursing; 5 = Master in Nursing
³Profession: 1 = Career; 2 = PN; 3 = Social worker; 4 = RN; 5 = Head or Leader
⁴Work place: 1 = Sheltered housing; 2 = Institutional care
⁵Ownership: 1 = Municipality; 2 = Private (for profit and non-profit)
⁶Position type: 1 = Occasionally; 2 = Temporary; 3 = Permanent
⁷Mother tongue: 1 = Finnish 2 = Swedish
⁸Working language: 1 = Finnish; 2 = Swedish
⁹Self-evaluation of clinical competence: 1 = Really weak; 2 = Weak Really; 3 = Pretty good; 4 = Good; 5 = Really good;
¹⁰National guidelines & Google: 1 = Never; 2 = Every month; 3 = Every week; 4 = Every day
¹¹Clincal competence: 1 = Has clinical competence; 0 = No clinical competence

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