Competency Inventory for Registered Nurses in Macao: Instrument validation

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 893-900

  Liu, Ming ^a   Yin, Lei ^a   Ma, Estela ^b   Lo, Siuha ^c   Zeng, Lingxia ^d  

^a MACAO POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (Macao)

^b Hospital Conde S Januario   (China)

^c Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competency Inventory for Registered Nurses; Confirmatory factor analysis; Construct validity; Instrument validation; Macao; Nursing competency

Indexed keywords

EID: 61649126468     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04936.x     Document Type: Article

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