Hye-Sook Park, Seokmin Kang, Sungyeun Kim
A longitudinal study of the effect of individual and socio-cultural factors on students' creativity
Frontiers in psychology
develop tool measuring competency conducting health education evaluate psychometric properties population entrylevel nurses generic instrument developed specifically measuring competency health education essential competency nurses existing scales either insufficient psychometric evaluation designed specifically senior nurses evaluate curricula courses designed entrylevel nurses educators require instrument measuring improvement core competency baseline determine whether minimum level ability achieved item development survey instrument used data collection study based results literature review selfevaluated health education competency scale developed study used survey 457 nursing students two nursing schools 165 clinical nurses medical centre south taiwan 2016 participants randomly divided two equal groups one group analysed exploratory factor analysis varimax rotation one group analysed confirmatory factor analysis factor analysis yielded fourfactor assessment pedagogy motivation empowerment solution 18 items accounted 759 variance total scale subscales good reliabilities construct validity coefficients measuring competency entrylevel nurses health education competency scale good data fit sound psychometric properties proposed scale used assess health education competency college nursing students practising nurses furthermore provide educators valuable insight minimum competencies required entrylevel nurses deliver quality health care clients guide practice clientbased teaching