Objective To develop the evaluation scale of nursing decision-making ability for acute and critical in-fectious diseases,and to test its reliability and validity.Methods Based on the Tanner clinical judgment mode,the fi-nal draft of the scale was formed through literature analysis,semi-structured interview,Delphi method and pre-sur-vey.From March to April 2023,434 nurses who had participated in the treatment of acute and severe infectious diseases in 5 hospitals in Shaanxi Province were selected for investigation.SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0 software were used for pro-ject analysis,validity analysis and reliability analysis of the survey data.Results The nursing decision-making ability scale for acute and critical infectious diseases with 4 dimensions and 27 items was formed.4 common factors were extrac-ted from exploratory factor analysis,and the cumulative variance contribution rate was 72.537%.The results of confirm-atory factor analysis showed that the overall fit of the scale model was good.The level content validity index of the scale was 0.926,and the level content validity index of the item was 0.810~1.000.The Cronbach'sαcoefficient of the scale was 0.958,the Cronbach's α coefficient of each dimension was 0.856~0.945,and the broken half reliability was 0.842,the broken half reliability of each dimension was 0.767~0.902.Conclusion The nursing decision-making ability scale for acute and critical infectious diseases has good reliability and validity,and it could be used as a valid tool to assess nurses'decision-making ability of acute and severe infectious diseases.
Infectious DiseaseAcute and Critical ConditionNursing Decision-MakingScaleReliabilityValidity