Age, a diploma in nursing and work experience as a nursing teacher showed a signficant connection to multi-disciplinarity in teaching. Teachers of 40 years or under had less multi-disciplinarity in teaching than 51–60 year old teachers (p = 0.006). Teachers with more than one diploma had more multi-disciplinarity in teaching than those with a diploma in nursing (p = 0.045). Nursing teachers with approach to knowledge acquisition than those without publications
(p = 0.003) or publications in other areas than science (p = 0.003). f % Teachers with other publications also showed a narrower approach to knowledge acquisition compared with those with scientific publications (p = 0.003) (Table 5).
A teacher's further education, research and development activities and publication activities showed a connection to a traditional approach to teaching. Teachers who had not undergone further education during the past year had a more traditional approach to teaching than teachers who had. Teachers acting as leaders and members of research teams had a less traditional approach to teaching than those without research activities (p = 0.030). Teachers with scientific publications had a less traditional approach to teaching than those without publications (p = 0.048) or other publications (p = 0.024) (Table 5).
A teacher's publication activity was significantly connected to multi-disciplinarity in teaching, the selectivity of research for teaching and a positive attitude to research.
Multi-disciplinarity in teaching had a significantly less influence on teachers without publications compared with those with other publications (p = 0.036). Selection of research for teaching had more influence on those with scientific publications compared with those without publications (p = 0.018). A positive attitude to research was higher in those teachers with other than scientific publications compared with those without publications (p = 0.012) (Table 5).