Development and validation of Nurse Managers’ Empowering Behavioral Scale for staff nurses

Abstract

Abstract Aim In this study, we developed and verified the Nurse Managers’ Empowering Behavioral Scale for Staff Nurses (NMEB‐SN). Design A cross‐sectional survey. Methods The NMEB‐SN was developed based on the staff nurses’ perspectives. Nurses working in 10 hospitals in Japan were surveyed using a questionnaire to test the scale's validity using construct and criterion‐related validity and reliability using internal consistency and test–retest method. There were 1,146 eligible participants included in the process. Results The scale items resulted in five subscales comprising of 48 items altogether. The goodness‐of‐fit indices for confirmatory factor analysis were CFI = 0.903 and RMSEA = 0.076. The correlation with external criteria for criterion‐related validity was near the expected standard. Further, Cronbach's α coefficient was 0.95–0.97 for each subscale and 0.99 for the overall scale. The reliability and validity of the developed NMEB‐SN were verified for staff nurses in Japan.

Keywords

• behaviour rating scale
• empowerment
• nurse managers
• nursing
• reliability
• validity