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The Multidimensional Nursing Generations Questionnaire: development, reliability, and validity assessments.
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Management; May2017, Vol. 25 Issue 4, p287-296, 10p, 1 Diagram, 5 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Purpose To develop and perform reliability and validity assessments of the international Multidimensional Nursing Generations Questionnaire. Background There are three generations of nurses in the European workforce. There is little research on the characteristics of these generations and the ways in which to manage them professionally, and no instrument has yet been developed to measure these aspects specifically. Methods With results from previous studies, 69 nursing generations-oriented items were created in English, translated into Italian and Finnish, and pretested to form the basis of an instrument that was tested between September and October 2014 on a sample of Finnish and Italian nurses ( n = 1302) using principal component analysis and Cronbach's alpha. Results Fifty-four items and eight components (Cronbach's α range: 0.61-0.81) were identified in the instrument: (1) conflicts between generations; (2) patient safety view; (3) relationships between generations; (4) working as a multigenerational team; (5) orientation to change; (6) presenteeism and job propensity; (7) intention to leave, and (8) flexibility and availability. Conclusions The instrument showed acceptable preliminary psychometric properties and satisfactory internal consistency. Implications for nursing management The Multidimensional Nursing Generations Questionnaire is a useful tool to measure the characteristics of different generations of nurses and to develop management strategies tailored to those generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
CHI-squared test
STATISTICAL correlation
EMPLOYMENT
TEST validity
EXPERIMENTAL design
FACTOR analysis
INTERGENERATIONAL relations
JOB satisfaction
LABOR turnover
MATHEMATICAL models
RESEARCH methodology
NURSING services administration
PATIENT safety
PROFESSIONAL employee training
PUBLIC hospitals
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SURVEYS
TEAMS in the workplace
EMPLOYEES' workload
PILOT projects
THEORY
PEER relations
EDUCATIONAL attainment
MULTITRAIT multimethod techniques
CROSS-sectional method
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DATA analysis software
PRESENTEEISM (Labor)
HOSPITAL nursing staff
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09660429
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122859286
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12465