Table 1 Academic and professional characteristics (N = 639).

From: Psychometric properties of the nursing critical thinking in clinical practice questionnaire in clinical nurse educators

Employment contract

N (%)

Permanent

278 (43.50)

Non-permanent

360 (56.34)

‘Missing’

1 (0.16)

Experience, years

 < 1

5 (0.8)

 1–5

125 (19.6)

 6–10

120 (18.8)

 11–15

113 (17.7)

 16–20

119 (18.6)

 > 21

157 (24.6)

Academic level

 Three-year undergraduate degree

108 (16.9)

 Four-year undergraduate degree

3 (0.5)

 Specialty

3 (0.5)

 Postgraduate certificate

115 (18.0)

 Master’s degree

407 (63.7)

 Doctoral degree

3 (0.5)