Development and Validation of a Tool for Evaluating Core Competencies in Nursing Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy

Abstract

Purpose: This study was done to develop tool to evaluate the core competencies regarding nursing cancer patients on chemotherapy, and to verify the reliability and efficacy of the developed tool. Methods: A tool to evaluate the core competencies was developed from a preliminary tool consisting of 112 items verified by expert groups. The adequacy of the preliminary tool was analyzed and refined to the final evaluation tool containing 76 items in 8 core competencies and 18 specific competencies. The evaluation tool is in the form of a self-report, and each item is evaluated according to a 3-point scale. From September 22 to October 14, 2011, 349 survey responses were analyzed using SPSS 20.0 and the WINSTEPS program that employs the Rasch model. Results: Results indicated that there were no inappropriate items and the items had low levels of difficulty in comparison with the knowledge levels of the study participants. The results of factor analysis yielded 18 factors, and the reliability of the tools was very high with Cronbach's α= .97. Conclusion: The results of this study can be used for training and evaluation of core competencies for nursing cancer patients, and for standardizing nursing practices associated with chemotherapy.

Development of Integrated Supportive Care Nursing Competence Scale for Cancer Survivors

“…Nurses voluntarily participate in educational and research activities and develop their expertise to provide quality, integrated, supportive care to cancer survivors. These competencies have also been suggested in previous studies [20,25]. Nurses are required to acquire the professional knowledge and skills necessary for cancer survivor integrated supportive care and provide the latest nursing intervention by integrating valid and grounded information.…”

“…Studies related to cancer survivor care targeting domestic nurses are scarce, except for those that investigated the practice of cancer survivor care by oncology nurses [17]. Finding a study that developed a scale to measure the cancer survivor supportive care competence of domestic nurses was difficult, and the existing scale developed to measure the care competence for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy has limitations in evaluating the cancer survivor supportive care competence because it does not consider the aspect of care after treatment [25]. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the attributes of cancer survivor supportive care competence of nurses, develop a measurement scale, and test the validity and reliability of the developed scale.…”

Psychometric Properties of the Korean Version of the Environmental Health Literacy Scale

“…If the factor loading value is applied as an absolute standard to interpret the analysis result, essential items or the original content of the instrument might be lost. Hence, researchers should consider each item’s features and properties in the process of factor analysis [ 22 , 27 , 28 ]. As a result, it was judged appropriate to classify two items into Factor 1, considering the relevance and properties of the items.…”

Constipation among Korean older adults in long-term care facilities: A scoping review

“…Hong and Gu [37] showed that although a tool for measuring stool consistency exists, there is no tool for measuring symptoms or the time required to defecate; therefore, a scale developed by the researcher was used. Additionally, the CAS is a self-report tool that records subjective symptoms and signs of constipation [44], which is difficult to apply to institutionalized older adults, many of whom have cognitive impairment. Frank et al [19] showed that institutionalized older adults had difficulty interpreting questionnaire items and recalling relevant information because of physical, cognitive, and emotional factors.…”