A new scale for disaster nursing core competencies: Development and psychometric testing

Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 11-19

  Al Thobaity, Abdulellah ^a,b   Williams, Brett ^a   Plummer, Virginia ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Competence; Disaster; Management; Principal component analysis; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DISASTER; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIKERT SCALE; NURSE; NURSING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PURPOSIVE SAMPLE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAUDI ARABIA; SELF REPORT; VALIDITY; VARIMAX ROTATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISASTER MEDICINE; FEMALE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING EDUCATION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISASTER MEDICINE; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NURSES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAUDI ARABIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84958101783     PISSN: 15746267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aenj.2015.12.001     Document Type: Article

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