Development of Nursing Skill Rating Scale of Intravenous Therapy for Community Nurses and the test of its reliability and validity / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective:To develop Nursing Skill Rating Scale of Intravenous Therapy for Community Nurses and to test its reliability and validity.Methods:Refer to the 2019 Infusion Nursing Society Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, Nursing Technical Operation Specification of Intravenous Therapy, through literature review, expert group meeting and pre-survey, the Nursing Skill Rating Scale of Intravenous Therapy for Community Nurses was formed, and 260 community nurses of 20 communities in Dalian were investigated by convenience sampling method from May to June 2020 to test the reliability and validity. Results:The Nursing Skill Rating Scale of Intravenous Therapy for Community Nurses included five dimensions (theoretical knowledge, skill operation, management ability, complication treatment, health education) with 18 items, cumulative variance contribution rate was 50.510%. The scale-content validity index was 0.92. The item-level content validity index were from 0.76 to 1.00. The total Cronbach α coefficient of questionnaire was 0.857. The test-retest reliability was 0.948. Conclusions:The Nursing Skill Rating Scale of Intravenous Therapy for Community Nurses has good reliability, validity and strong applicability. It could be applied for the nursing skill level of intravenous therapy for community nurses.