Constructing nurse's ability of scientific research assessment system

Abstract

Objective To construct a scientific and objective assessment to value nurse's ability of scientific research in order to provide an objective unified standard and operable method to value nurse's ability of scientific research and provide a standard for medical institutions to select nurses of scientific research. Methods After searching literatures and interviewing 7 experts, Delphi method was used to construct primary variables of nurse's ability of scientific research. Then a second interview was given to each of 18 experts. The variables were weighted using analytic hierarchy process. Results Variables to assess nurse's ability of scientific research included 2 first grade indices, 9 second grade indices and 35 third grade indices. Questionnaire return rates for two rounds of interviews were 84.00% (21/25) and 85.71% (18/21), respectively. Degree of authority Cr was 0.938. Scores of variables' importance ranged at 4.06-4.96. Ratios of full scores ranged at 33.33%-94.44%. Variable coefficients ranged at 0.05-0.25. The weight coefficients of 3 first grade indices (scientific research accumulation, explicit ability of scientific research, and intrinsic ability of scientific research) were 0.475 and 0.525, respectively. Conclusions The nurse's ability of scientific research assessment system based on Delphi method and analytic hierarchy process is scientific and objective. This system combines quantitative and qualitative variables. It thus can calculate the ability of nurse's scientific research according to the three grade indices. It is operable to be used to assess the ability of nurse's scientific research. Key words: Nurses; Research ability; Aassessment system; Delphi method; Analytic hierarchy process