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KMID : 0379720140280030590
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Journal of Korean Community Health Nursing Academic Society
2014 Volume.28 No. 3 p.590 ~ p.604
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Development of Nursing Competence Scale for Graduating Nursing Students
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Joo Ga-Eul
Sohng Kyeong-Yae
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a nursing competence scale for soon to be graduate nursing students and to verify its validity and reliability.
Methods: This study is a methodological study for development of a scale. Based on literature review and group discussion of 13 professional experts, 40 preliminary items were developed and the content validity was verified. Psychometric testing was performed and data were collected from 141 soon to be graduate nursing students of a university. Construct validity was verified by factor analysis and reliability was calculated.
Results: The analyses resulted in a scale named the Nursing Competence Scale for Graduating Nursing Students (NCS-GNS), consisting of 30 items covering eight categories: nursing professionalism, integrated nursing through critical thinking, communication skills, nursing leadership, respect for life, stress management, nursing research, and core nursing skills. For the entire scale, the explained variance was 66.72% and Cronbach’s alpha was 0.906.
Conclusion: NCS-GNS was developed and its validity and reliability were verified. This scale can be used to evaluate nursing competence for graduating nursing students.
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KEYWORD
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Nursing students, Clinical competence, Professional competence, Validation studies
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