Development of the Operating Room Professional Nurses Core Competency Evaluation Scale

Abstract

Objective To develop the Operating Room Professional Nurses Core Competency Evaluation Scale so as to provide an evaluation criterion for career planning and promotion evaluation of operating room nurses. Methods From January 2017 to March 2017, we built item pool of the scale by literature study and consulted 5 experts to form the questionnaire. From April 2017 to October 2017, we selected 443 operating room nurses attending 2017 National Operating Room Nursing Annual Meeting by convenient cluster sampling. The reliability and validity test were carried out for the original questionnaire. Items of the questionnaire were adjusted based on results to the final edition of operating room professional nurses core competency evaluation scale. Results The final edition of the scale included 5 dimensions and 45 items involving professional development ability (12 items) , professional cooperation ability (12 items) , professional management ability (10 items) , perioperative assessment ability (6 items) and basic professional ability (5 items) . The KMO of the questionnaire was 0.975. The Cronbach's α of the scale was 0.983 and Cronbach's α of the dimensions was 0.848-0.973. Conclusions The scale has good reliability and validity. Its content can provide a reference object for career planning of operating room nurses and an evaluation criterion for promotion evaluation of operating room nurses. The quantization of evaluation results can be a basis for operating room personnel training. Key words: Operating rooms; Professional nurses; Core competency evaluation; Scale