Building bridges of excellence: a comprehensive competence framework for nurses in hospice and palliative care—a mixed method study

Table 3 The characteristic of the 13 interviewed female nurses

No	Age	Education level	Marriage	Department^a	Years of HPC experience	Transcripts word count
1	31	Master	Unmarried	Oncology	1	12,585
2	40	Bachler	Married	Pain management	10	7164
3	29	Bachler	Unmarried	Oncology	3	16,486
4	29	Bachler	Unmarried	Oncology	5	7640
5	36	Bachler	Married	Oncology	5	6578
6	34	Bachler	Married	Oncology	6	4662
7	27	Short Cycle	Married	HPC	5	3985
8	30	College	Married	HPC	5	11,831
9	23	College	Unmarried	HPC	3	4482
10	27	College	Unmarried	HPC	4	7214
11	27	Bachler	Unmarried	HPC	3	7173
12	23	Bachler	Unmarried	HPC	1	4104
13	25	College	Married	HPC	4	7571

^aThe HPC departments were joint with internal medicine department or admitting patients of internal medicine department

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