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Table 2 Professions and degrees of professional experience in the study sample

From: Measuring hygiene competence: the picture-based situational judgement test HygiKo

Profession

Frequency

in %

Professional Experience in Years

M (SD)

Freq. in %

Medical Student

40.8

5.6 (0.85)

 

Medical Doctor

4.8

7.0 (8.49)

 

Trainee Nursea (f/m)

34.7

2.2 (1.00)

First year: 41.7

Third year: 58.3

Nurse (f/m)

19.0

14.3 (13.81)

 

Trainee operating room technician (ORT)b

0.7

1.0 (0)

First year: 100

  1. a In Germany, nursing education is a vocational college training, which is not rooted at a university. Trainee nurses spent three years at a vocational school for theoretical and practical education (2,100 h). Additionally, trainee nurses serve 2,500 h at a teaching hospital for practical training
  2. b In Germany, ORT education is based at a vocational college as well. The theoretical education covers 1,600 h, the practical training includes 3,000 h at a teaching hospital