Development of clinical professional performance questionnaire for undergraduate nursing students

Objective To develop an instrument to measure the clinical professional performance of undergraduate nursing students.Methods The initial questionnaire was formed on the basis of literature review.Then it was revised by expert counseling and was used to evaluate 345 undergraduate nursing students.Discrimination test,homogeneity test,and exploratory factor analysis were conducted to select items.The reliability and validity of the final questionnaire was tested.Results The final questionnaire consisted of 28 items in 5 dimensions,including application of nursing process(5 items),clinical practice and adherence to ethical principles(6 items),health education(4 items),communication(5 items)and critical thinking(8 items).Cronbach's α of the questionnaire was 0.937,and Cronbach's α of each subscale ranged from 0.822 to 0.881.The content validity index of the initial questionnaire was 0.94.The factor structure of the final questionnaire was ideal and five factors were extracted by principal component analysis,which could explain 61.976% of the total variance.Conclusion The final questionnaire has good reliability and validity.It can be used as an instrument to evaluate clinical professional performance of undergraduate nursing students.