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deficiency essential core competencies could jeopardize safety patients adopting outcomebased approach set minimally required core competencies nursing students developed ensure quality nursing education determination point measure competency needed importantly competence indicators nursing students used curriculum development planning learning outcome evaluation purpose study develop competency inventory measure learning outcomes baccalaureate nursing students test psychometric properties psychometric testing conducted convenience sample 599 nursing students 2011 principal axis factor analysis performed 52item scale determine construct validity cronbachs alpha used measure internal consistency principal axis factoring method identified six factors direct oblimin rotations including pattern matrix structure matrix ethical responsibility general clinical skills lifelong learning clinical biomedical science caring critical thinking reasoning exploratory factor analysis yielded instrument 43items six factors accounting 6984 variance scores competency inventory nursing students cins factors ranged 091 098 study shows competency inventory nursing students satisfactory psychometric properties could useful instrument measuring learning outcomes nursing student competence indicators show merit assessing learning outcomes nursing students nursing education however crossvalidation scale another sample also needed