You conduct a study to investigate the relationship between Medical-Surgical clinical competency and number of simulation hours in the medical-surgical rotation among undergraduate nursing students. You assess 25 students for two variables: 1) Medical-surgical clinical competency exam where higher numbers are indicative of more competency; and 2) The number of simulation hours received in the med-surg rotation. You compute a Pearson correlation between the answers to your two variables, and find that r = -0.62.

the correlation significant at a two-tailed of .05

How do you interpret your findings in terms of the nature and direction of the association between medical clinical competency and simulation hours?

How much variance is shared between the two variables ? Enter as a percentage.