VALIDATION OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR EVALUATING OF NURSING SPECIALISTS’ COMMITMENT IN THE ISSUES OF HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT FORMING AND IMPROVING

The aim is to develop and evaluate the reliability of the questionnaire for the assessment nurses’ professional commitment in the developing and improving safe environment in the hospital. Materials and methods: the questionnaire was developed based on the Nursing Safety and Quality of Patient Care Guidelines and the Schnall's Patient-Safety Attitudes, Skills and Knowledge (PS-ASK). Questionnaire validation included language and adaptation, expertise, pilot testing and the development of the final version. The questionnaire reliability was based on to calculate internal consistency correlations using Cronbach’s coefficient a. Results and discussion: linguistic adaptation did not reveal significant differences in the translated versions of the questionnaire. Marginal adjustments were made by the expert's commission to the phrasing of questions and their answers in order to facilitate understanding. The pilot test was attended by 50 nurses. The Cronbach coefficient was calculated for each study area and ranged from 0.457 to 0.898. Despite the low a Cronbach’s alpha indices on the scale, the attitude of the personnel to the manipulations of a safe environment, the overall Cronbach's alpha for the entire questionnaire is 0.823. Conclusions : According to the study, the developed questionnaire showed a satisfactory level of reliability and internal consistency. Thus, this questionnaire can be used to assess nurses' professional commitment in the developing and improving safe environment in the hospital.

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