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Title: Assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management: design and validation of a tool, the NURSPeM
Author: Fuster-Linares, Pilar
Alfonso-Arias, Cristina
Gallart Fernández-Puebla, Albert
Rodriguez Higueras, Encarnación
García-Mayor, Silvia
Font-Jimenez, Isabel
Llauradó Serra, Mireia
Keywords: Ensenyament de la infermeria
Administració de medicaments
Anàlisi factorial
Psicometria
Nursing education
Administration of drugs
Factor analysis
Psychometrics
Issue Date: Apr-2022
Publisher: MDPI
Abstract: Objective: The objective was to design and validate a tool for assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management. Methods: A descriptive instrumental study was conducted involving construct definition, development of the tool, analysis of the content validity, and psychometric evaluation. Consensus regarding the content was obtained through a two-round Delphi process, and the resulting tool (the NURSPeM) was administered to nursing students to examine its internal consistency, temporal stability, and construct validity, the latter through exploratory factor analysis. Results: Thirteen experts participated in the Delphi process, which yielded a tool comprising two questionnaires: (1) Self-perceptions about safe medication management (27 items) and (2) the frequency and learning of drug-dose calculation (13 items). The tool's psychometric properties were then examined based on responses from 559 nursing students. This analysis led to the elimination of three items from questionnaire 1, leaving a total of 24 items distributed across seven dimensions. All 13 items in questionnaire 2 were retained. Both questionnaires showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.894 and 0.893, respectively) and temporal stability (ICC = 0.894 and 0.846, respectively). Conclusions: The NURSPeM is a valid and reliable tool for assessing nursing students' self-perceptions about safe medication management. It may be used to identify areas in which their training needs to be enhanced, and to evaluate the subsequent impact of new teaching initiatives.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084663
It is part of: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, vol. 19, num.8
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/218671
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084663
ISSN: 1661-7827
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