PMID- 22356798
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121030
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1873-491X (Electronic)
IS  - 0020-7489 (Linking)
VI  - 49
IP  - 7
DP  - 2012 Jul
TI  - The Nurses Self-Concept Instrument (NSCI): assessment of psychometric properties 
      for Australian domestic and international student nurses.
PG  - 880-6
LID - 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.01.016 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Professional self-concept is a critical driver of job satisfaction. 
      In Australia, as international nursing enrolments rise, nursing is increasingly 
      characterised by a professional body of international nurses who may differ from 
      domestic Australian nurses in their nursing self-concept. At present, no 
      psychometrically sound instrument for assessing nursing self-concept for 
      Australian domestic and international nursing students is available. PURPOSE: The 
      purpose of this study was to: (1) develop an instrument (the Nurses' Self-Concept 
      Instrument (NSCI)) to measure the professional self-concept of domestic and 
      international nursing students in Australia, and (2) test the psychometric 
      properties of this newly developed instrument. METHOD: A literature review was 
      conducted to generate the initial dimension and item pools to measure nurses' 
      professional self-concept (NSCI). Two stakeholders examined the content and face 
      validity of dimensions and items. Analysis was performed on data collected from 
      253 undergraduate nursing students in a large public university in Sydney, 
      Australia, and consisted of domestic (n=218) and international (n=35) nursing 
      students. Internal reliability was assessed using Cronbach's Alpha. Confirmatory 
      factor analysis (CFA) was used to assess the construct validity of the NSCI. 
      RESULTS: The resulting NSCI consisted of 14 items across four self-concept 
      domains: care, leadership, staff relations, and knowledge. The CFA supported the 
      hypothesised factor structure of the self-concept model. All reliabilities were 
      acceptable for both domestic and international students (ranging from r=.78 to 
      .93). CONCLUSIONS: The NSCI was shown to be a valid and reliable tool for 
      assessing Australian domestic and international student nurses' professional 
      self-concept. This instrument may also enable those responsible for recruitment 
      of students into nursing courses to assess students' professional self-concept 
      and implement appropriate strategies to foster the growth of lifelong career 
      development.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Angel, Elizabeth
AU  - Angel E
AD  - Educational Excellence and Equity (E(3)) Research Program, Centre for Educational 
      Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia. L.Angel@uws.edu.au
FAU - Craven, Rhonda
AU  - Craven R
FAU - Denson, Nida
AU  - Denson N
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20120220
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Nurs Stud
JT  - International journal of nursing studies
JID - 0400675
SB  - IM
MH  - Australia
MH  - Foreign Professional Personnel
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Psychometrics
MH  - Students, Nursing/*psychology
EDAT- 2012/02/24 06:00
MHDA- 2012/10/31 06:00
CRDT- 2012/02/24 06:00
PHST- 2011/04/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/01/20 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/01/29 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/02/24 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/02/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/10/31 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0020-7489(12)00045-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.01.016 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Nurs Stud. 2012 Jul;49(7):880-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2012.01.016. Epub 
      2012 Feb 20.