Nurses' retention and hospital characteristics in New South Wales, CHERE Discussion Paper No 52



NURSES’ RETENTION AND HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS IN NEW SOUTH WALES

Table 4. Results of probit estimation of RN retention probabilities*

VARIABLE

COEF.

P-VALUE

COEF.

P-VALUE

constant

-2.937

0.000

-2.553

0.000

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

male

-0.191

0.000

-0.182

0.000

age

0.164

0.000

0.157

0.000

age squared

-0.002

0.000

-0.002

0.000

foreign born

0.037

0.340

0.061

0.126

UK born

-0.122

0.008

-0.110

0.018

NZ born

-0.039

0.667

-0.028

0.752

foreign citizen

-0.090

0.089

-0.088

0.099

not permanent resident

-0.564

0.209

-0.590

0.216

WORK CHARACTERISTICS

work hours

0.006

0.022

0.006

0.013

work hours squared (00s)

-0.005

0.084

-0.005

0.055

post basic qualifications

0.045

0.076

0.048

0.060

years registered

0.022

0.000

0.021

0.000

years registered squared(0s)

-0.005

0.002

-0.005

0.004

unemployment rate

0.012

0.001

0.004

0.391

activity surgical

0.057

0.047

0.054

0.064

activity psych

0.011

0.762

-0.001

0.989

job clinical

0.095

0.001

0.103

0.000

job managerial

-0.049

0.434

-0.037

0.548

HOSPITAL CHARACTERISTICS

acute separations (excl babies)

0.008

0.096

non acute separations (excl babies)

0.027

0.195

baby separations

-0.077

0.076

separations (excl babies)/nurse

-0.004

0.065

baby separations/nurse

0.027

0.097

emergency admissions/nurse

0.009

0.004

bed days

-0.003

0.042

%non acute bed days

-0.002

0.052

ANDRG wt

-0.232

0.020

high cost procedures/nurse

-0.555

0.003

cost per non acute bed day

1.781

0.027

wait time

0.052

0.060

length of stay

0.000

0.472

non VMO expenditure

0.069

0.001

nurse EFT

-0.180

0.631

non nurse clinical EFT

-0.586

0.001

non clinical EFT

-0.240

0.078

VMO expenditure

-0.300

0.045

sample size

16393

16393

pseudo R2

0.048

0.052

Log likelihood value

-7700.739

-7669.826

observed probability

0.805

0.805

mean predicted probability

0.805

0.805

probability predicted at means

0.815

0.816

proportion correctly predicted:**

not working in 1997

0.545

0.561

working in 1997

0.685

0.679



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