The North Carolina Study of Home Care and Hospice
Nurses was a mail survey, conducted in 2006, of registered
nurses listed in the licensing database of the North Carolina
Board of Nursing as working in home care or hospice
in non-administrative positions. The questionnaire can be
obtained from the author upon request. SAS 9.2 (SAS Institute,
Cary, NC, USA) was used to calculate percentages,
ratios, and confidence intervals. Complete details of the
study design have been published previously4). This study
was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Weber
State University.