4 Nursing Research and Practice Table 1: Descriptive statistics of categorical demographic data (N = 173). Frequencya Percent Demographics Gender (n = 173) Female Male Region (n = 173) New England Middle Atlantic South Atlantic East South Central West South Central East North Central West North Central Mountain Paciﬁc Highest level of nursing education (n = 173) Diploma Associate’s degree Bachelor’s degree Master’s degree Currently enrolled in advanced degree (n = 173) Yes No Current area of practice (n = 171)b Clinical setting (n = 154) Full-time Part-time Education (n = 31) Full-time Part-time Administration (n = 26) Full-time Part-time Research (n = 2) Full-time Part-time Mentoring relationship (n = 173) Total yes Formal Informal Both None Role in mentoring relationship (n = 170) Mentor Prote´ge´ Both None Choose nursing again (n = 172) Yes No 150 23 16 48 16 14 12 15 16 8 28 11 61 70 31 48 125 114 40 16 15 19 7 1 1 136 25 71 40 37 32 24 77 37 145 27 86.70 13.30 9.20 27.70 9.20 8.10 6.90 8.70 9.20 4.60 16.20 6.40 35.30 40.50 17.90 27.70 72.30 65.90 23.10 9.20 8.70 11.00 4.00 0.60 0.60 78.60 14.50 41.00 23.10 21.40 18.50 13.90 44.50 21.40 83.80 15.60