Competency standards for critical care nurses: Do they measure up?

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 32-39

  Fisher, Murray J ^a   Marshall, Andrea P ^a,b   Kendrick, Tina S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competencies; Competency standards; Construct validity; Critical care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MODEL; NURSING DISCIPLINE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL CARE; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, NURSING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIALTIES, NURSING;

EID: 33645454588     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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