Intensive Care Unit Nurses: Critical Thinking Skills and Caring Behaviors : Table 3

Table 3: Differences in critical thinking skills according to personal characteristics (N=352).
*p<.05, ***p<.001
Note: ICU = Intensive Care Unit.

Variable

Critical-Thinking

Inference

Recognition of Assumptions

Deduction

Interpretation

Evaluation of Argument

Mean±SD

t/F

Mean±SD

t/F

Mean±SD

t/F

Mean±SD

t/F

Mean±SD

t/F

Mean±SD

t/F

Position title

2.444

1.872

1.986

1.512

1.683*

0.641

Non-managers

270

32.04±7.43

5.45±2.61

7.49±2.31

7.06±1.94

6.35±2.58

5.69±2.18

Managers

29.79±6.78

4.84±2.45

6.91±2.25

6.70±1.72

5.83±2.04

5.51±2.41

Clinical ladder

4.981***

2.136

3.128

1.776

3.690

1.512

(1)N

31.84±7.56

5.61±2.57

7.16±2.40

7.35±1.76

6.44±2.45

5.42±2.19

(2)N1

31.25±6.82

5.22±2.60

7.25±2.46

6.90±2.16

6.33±2.64

5.71±2.18

(3)N2

33.06±7.86

5.89±2.74

7.77±2.18

7.07±1.94

6.60±2.33

5.88±2.21

(4)N3

100

32.04±6.74

5.16±2.57

7.70±2.19

7.04±1.76

6.33±2.41

5.88±2.16

(5)N4

27.37±7.18

4.60±2.20

6.49±2.20

6.41±1.89

5.02±2.21

4.92±2.30

Scheffe’s test

(3)>(5), (4)>(5)

Total ICU seniority

2.187

3.474*

1.501

1.857

1.264

0.591

(1)<1

30.50±8.17

4.35±2.21

7.31±2.83

6.96±2.16

6.50±2.58

5.38±2.23

(2)1 - 5

158

32.27±6.70

5.56±2.55

7.34±2.10

7.22±1.79

6.47±2.52

5.68±2.19

(3)6 - 9

31.92±8.21

5.63±2.75

7.73±2.40

6.80±2.10

5.92±2.44

5.85±2.37

(4)≥10

29.83±7.02

4.74±2.42

6.97±2.38

6.66±1.71

6.01±2.33

5.44±2.16

Scheffe’s test

(2)>(1), (3)>(1), (2)>(4), (3)>(4)