A confirmatory factor analysis of the Clinical Nursing Practice Environment Scale with hospital registered nurses in Taiwan

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 20, Issue 15-16, 2011, Pages 2344-2354

  Pai, Hsiang Chu ^a   Lee, Sheuan ^a   Chang, Ting ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN TAIWAN   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Clinical nursing practice environment scale; Exploratory factor analysis; Instrument development; Second order confirmatory factor analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; TAIWAN;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; TAIWAN;

EID: 79960359332     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2010.03544.x     Document Type: Article

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