Development and psychometric testing of the nursing research self-efficacy scale (NURSES)

Journal of Nursing Measurement

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 4-22

  Swenson Britt, Evelyn ^a   Berndt, Andrea ^b  

^a University Health System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective research efficacy; Instrument development; Knowledge translation; Nursing research self efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880003517     PISSN: 10613749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/1061-3749.21.1.4     Document Type: Article

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