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- Educators and employers struggle to assess nursing competency, but understanding its measurement can help address these challenges.
- Participants in the study completed high-fidelity simulations scored with a detailed 41-item instrument, analyzed for its underlying structure.
- The analysis revealed five distinct factors accounting for 56% of the variance in competency, indicating a clear yet interconnected approach to defining dimensions of safe nursing practice.
Article Abstract
Background And Purpose: Educators, employers, and regulatory agencies face substantive challenges in evaluating nursing competency. Evidence on what competency is and how to measure it can mitigate the challenges.
Methods: Participants ( = 67) completed three high-fidelity simulation tests. Each video-recorded test was scored by three raters using a 41-item instrument. Exploratory factor analysis was used to define the latent structure of the instrument.
Results: A five-factor solution accounted for 56% of the variance, minimized negative loadings, and minimized the number of cross-loadings. The factors were minimally correlated (each < .30).
Conclusions: The factors, , and , represent integrated dimensions of competency that can be linked to specific tasks underlying safe practice.
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