Pretraining performance of nurses
| Nurses’ characteristics | Knowledge score, mean (SD) | Skills, n (%) correct |
| Ward posted | ||
| Paediatric wards | ||
| Neonatal intensive care unit | 5.82 (1.40) | 16 (73) |
| Paediatric intensive care unit | 5.11 (1.05) | 4 (44) |
| Paediatric ward | 5.87 (0.99) | 4 (50) |
| Cardiac intensive care unit | 4.67 (1.21) | 0 (0) |
| Gynaecology ward | 5.29 (2.29) | 5 (29) |
| Privilege gold | 6.00 (0.76) | 4 (50) |
| Special bed unit | 3.44 (1.51) | 3 (33) |
| Education | ||
| General nursing and midwifery | 5.20 (1.79) | 27 (44) |
| Diploma-general nursing and midwifery | 5.71 (1.11) | 3 (43) |
| Registered nurse registered midwife | 5.83 (1.17) | 5 (83) |
| Auxiliary nurse midwifery | 5.50 (0.58) | 1 (25) |
| BSc (Nursing) | Not applicable | 0 (0.0) |
| Appointment type | ||
| Contractual | 5.28 (1.66) | 27 (42) |
| Permanent | 5.33 (1.68) | 9 (60) |
| Experience | ||
| 0–5 years | 5.16 (1.80) | 16 (37) |
| 6–10 years | 5.13 (1.30) | 9 (60) |
| 11–15 years | 5.33 (1.41) | 5 (56) |
| 16 years or more | 5.92 (1.68) | 6 (50) |