Development of emergency nursing care competency scale for school nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

School nurses perform vital student emergency services at school, and assessing their emergency nursing care competency is critical to the safety and quality of care students receive. The purpose of the study was to develop a scale for measuring school nurses' competency.

Methods

This was an instrument development and validation study. It was conducted according to the revised DeVellis scale development process coupled with the application of the International Council of Nurses' Nursing Care Continuum Competencies Framework. Eight experts specializing in school health and emergency care evaluated the content validity, while 386 school nurses evaluated the scale. The validity evaluation comprised factor analysis, discriminative validity analysis according to differ

SUBMITTER: Yoon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8045335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature