Development of the core competence evaluation scale for in ophthalmic specialty nursing and its tests of reliability and validity
Objective To develop the evaluation scale of core competence in ophthalmic nursing,and test its relia-bility and validity.Methods Based on the literature review,semi-structured interview,and group discussion,the en-try pool of the core competence evaluation scale for ophthalmic nursing was preliminarily developed.The initial scale was formed through expert letter consultation and pre-survey.A total of 210 ophthalmic nurses from 10 Class ⅢGrade A hospitals in Jiangxi province were investigated to test the reliability and validity of the scale.from and Feb-ruary to March 2023.Results There were 51 items in the evaluation scale of core competency of ophthalmology nurs-ing.Six common factors were extracted by exploratory factor analysis,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 77.380%.The content validity index of total table level was 0.820,and the content validity index of item level was from 0.887 to 1.000.The total Cronbach's α coefficient of the scale was 0.982,and the split-half reliability was 0.875,and the retest reliability was 0.980.Conclusion The evaluation scale of core competence of ophthalmic nurs-ing has good reliability and validity,and can be used as an evaluation tool to evaluate the level of core competence of clinical ophthalmic nursing workers and ophthalmic nurses.