Table 1 Descriptive statistics regarding different healthcare settings
All settings n = 19,340 | Acute care and rehabilitation hospitals n = 8179 | Psychiatric hospitals n = 4464 | Nursing homes n = 3860 | Home care organizations n = 3860 | |||||||
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
Sex | Women | 15,816 | 83% | 6690 | 83% | 3150 | 72% | 3320 | 87% | 2656 | 95% |
Men | 3205 | 17% | 1366 | 17% | 1216 | 28% | 485 | 13% | 138 | 5% | |
Language region | German-speaking | 14,871 | 83% | 6301 | 80% | 4124 | 93% | 2361 | 76% | 2085 | 82% |
French-speaking | 2715 | 15% | 1609 | 20% | 101 | 2% | 608 | 20% | 397 | 16% | |
Italian-speaking | 406 | 2% | 0 | 0% | 213 | 5% | 146 | 5% | 47 | 2% | |
Profession | Registered nurses | 8185 | 48% | 4086 | 56% | 1901 | 50% | 929 | 27% | 1269 | 52% |
Nurse assistants with a formal education | 3537 | 21% | 831 | 11% | 348 | 9% | 1588 | 46% | 770 | 32% | |
Nurse assistants without formal education | 1228 | 7% | 94 | 1% | 47 | 1% | 734 | 21% | 353 | 14% | |
Midwives | 170 | 1% | 170 | 2% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
Medical-technical professionals | 523 | 3% | 523 | 7% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | |
Medical-therapeutical professionals | 1509 | 9% | 656 | 9% | 694 | 18% | 159 | 5% | 0 | 0% | |
Physicians | 1101 | 7% | 649 | 9% | 413 | 11% | 39 | 1% | 0 | 0% | |
Employees in administration and research | 440 | 3% | 269 | 4% | 100 | 3% | 16 | 1% | 55 | 2% | |
Employees in Social Services | 353 | 2% | 31 | 0% | 296 | 8% | 26 | 1% | 0 | 0% | |
Leadership position | Upper-management level | 280 | 2% | 98 | 1% | 79 | 2% | 30 | 1% | 73 | 3% |
Middle-management level | 706 | 4% | 269 | 4% | 266 | 6% | 110 | 3% | 61 | 2% | |
Lower-management level | 1945 | 11% | 800 | 10% | 467 | 11% | 453 | 13% | 225 | 8% | |
Without management responsibilities | 15,295 | 84% | 6601 | 85% | 3361 | 81% | 2952 | 83% | 2381 | 87% | |