Sharifa Al-Qaaydeh, Madeline Lassche, Christopher I Macintosh
University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Journal of pediatric nursing 2012 OctPediatric nursing clinical often causes feelings of fear, thus hindering students' performance. This sparked the creation of the "pediatric nursing student clinical comfort and worry assessment tool," which can be utilized to identify worry-provoking elements before and after pediatric clinical rotations. The purpose of this study is to describe the development and psychometric testing of this tool. Psychometric tests used to assess data quality, reliability, and construct validity demonstrated that the pediatric nursing student clinical comfort and worry assessment tool can be used to evaluate nursing students' comfort and worry in pediatric nursing clinical rotations. Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Sharifa Al-Qaaydeh, Madeline Lassche, Christopher I Macintosh. Exploratory factor analysis of the pediatric nursing student clinical comfort and worry assessment tool. Journal of pediatric nursing. 2012 Oct;27(5):e39-43
PMID: 22710150
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