Nurses compose over a third of the workforce
in hospitals, providing clinical and nursing care around the clock often in a
collaborative multidisciplinary approach. The competence of nursing students is
related to the quality of nursing care they provide, their cooperation with
individuals from other disciplines and services, and, ultimately, patient
health and safety. Inasmuch the professional standards of nurses rely on their
competency, evaluating nurses’ competence is an important and fundamental issue
in healthcare.
The research developed and validated a
70-item scale that quantifies core competences of graduating baccalaureate
nurses in Korea. Each item was rated on a 5-point Likert scale. The strengths
of the KNCCS are its conformity to the standards and criteria for the
accreditation of baccalaureate nursing education programs proposed by the
Korean Accreditation Board of Nursing; its contemporary and perspective content;
and its congruence with the core competencies valued in other countries. This
paper provide evidence of content validity of the scale that is based on the
evaluation of seven content experts. We validated the scale by measuring its
reliability and validity after pilot testing the scale on 528 novice nurses
recently employed in nine major hospitals in Korea. Parameters of reliability
and validity we used were internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and
content validity. However, future studies assessing construct validity and
criterion validity of the scale are still required. And the need to continually
review and refine the scale must not be overlooked if it is to be an accurate
measure of the effectiveness of baccalaureate nursing education programs in a
constantly changing environment.
Article by Sanghee
Kim,et al,from Yonsei University, South Korea
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