Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
© 2018 Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem. The introduction of non-technical skills during nursing education is crucial to prepare nurses for the clinical context and increase patient safety. We found no instrument developed for this purpose. Objectives: to construct, develop and validate a non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing. Method: methodological research. Based on the literature review and experience of researchers on non-technical skills in healthcare and the knowledge of the principles of crisis resource management, a list of 63 items with a five-point Likert scale was constructed. The scale was applied to 177 nursing undergraduate students. Descriptive statistics, correlations, internal consistency analysis and exploratory factor analysis were performed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the scale. Results: scale items presented similar values for mean and median. The maximum and the minimum values presented a good distribution amongst all response options. Most items presented a significant and positive relationship. Cronbach alpha presented a good value (0.94), and most correlations were significant and positive. Exploratory factor analysis using the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin test showed a value of 0.849, and the Bartlett’s test showed adequate sphericity values (χ2=6483.998; p=0.000). One-factor model explained 26% of the total variance. Conclusion: non-technical skills training and its measurement could be included in undergraduate or postgraduate courses in healthcare professions, or even be used to ascertain needs and improvements in healthcare contexts.
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Publisher
University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing Organisation
Volume
26
First Page
e3042
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Keywords
Crisis resource management, Healthcare, Non-technical skills, Nursing, Nursing students, Psychometric qualities
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Recommended Citation
Pires, Sara Martins Pereira; Monteiro, Sara Otília Marques; Pereira, Anabela Maria Sousa; Stocker, Joana Novaes Machado; Chaló, Daniela de Mascarenhas; and de Melo, Elsa Maria de Oliveira Pinho, "Non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing: Construction, development and validation" (2018). All Works. 2521.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/2521
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Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series