Designing and validating an evaluation tool for nurse educators regarding core competencies
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core competencies, evaluation, nurse educator, nursing instituteAbstract
Using standardized evaluation tool for core competencies of nurse educator is essential to prepare faculty member. This study was aimed to design and validate an evaluation tool for nurse educators core competencies based on literature review. Also, Assessing the validity of the proposed tool by panel of experts and assessing the reliability of the proposed tool. Methodological design was used to carry out this study on two group "Jury group" was recruited for testing the face and content validity of the preliminary tool, this group consists of (35) members selected from different fields in nursing and "nurse educators" group working at two selected technical institutes of nursing Which affiliated to Ain-Shams Specialized Hospital and Ain-Shams University Hospitals. Data collection tool included Opinionnaire sheet for validity of the proposed tool, questionnaire sheet for eliciting the importance of preliminary tool from the viewpoint of nurse educator and developed evaluation tool. The results revealed that a majority agreement of jury group regarding face and content validity. Also a majority agreement of nurse educator regarding importance of proposed tool items of. Construct validity is measured by exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Eigen value. It proved to be high reliability through intra-rater and inter-rater testing.
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