1. Developing an instrument to assess empowering nurse leader communication behaviours.
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Hopkinson, Susan G., Glaser, Dale, Napier, Cheryl, and Trego, Lori L.
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EXPERIMENTAL design , *RESEARCH , *NURSES' attitudes , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *COMMUNICATIVE competence , *RESEARCH methodology , *MILITARY nursing , *RESEARCH methodology evaluation , *CROSS-sectional method , *MULTIPLE regression analysis , *LEADERS , *PEER relations , *SELF-efficacy , *PSYCHOMETRICS , *SURVEYS , *NURSES , *QUESTIONNAIRES , *RESEARCH funding , *FACTOR analysis , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *CHI-squared test , *INTERPROFESSIONAL relations , *DATA analysis software , *LONGITUDINAL method ,RESEARCH evaluation - Abstract
Aim: The overall purpose of the study was to develop an instrument to assess empowering nurse leader communication behaviours. Background: Effective communication by nurse leaders promotes empowerment, yet communication assessments are often broad in nature without specifying precise behaviours. Methods: An instrument development process was used to identify empowering nurse leader communication behaviours. Nurses working in United States military health care facilities (n = 240) provided responses to 47 pilot items, along with a 12‐item psychological empowerment instrument to test for concurrent criterion validity. Results: After review of item performance, 12 items were deleted. An exploratory factor analysis supported either a 2‐ or 3‐factor model, with confirmatory factor analyses conducted to validate the underlying latent variables of empowering and limiting behaviours. The final nurse leader communication assessment consists of 2 factors consisting of 20 positive items (empowering subscale) and 15 negative items (limiting subscale). Conclusion: The final 2‐factor assessment supports the theoretical premise of the empowering and limiting behaviours. Further testing may provide further dimensional clarity. Implications for nursing management: Use of the assessment can provide a basis for the development of training for individual nurse leaders or for facility nurse leaders as a collective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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