Lecturer, School of Nursing, Social Work and Applied Health Studies, University of Hull, Hull, UK;Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing, Social Work and Applied Health Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
Abstract:
The development of instruments to measure clinical competence in nursing shows little evidence of a systematic approach and studies of reliability and validity are absent. The present study was carried out using data on practice assessment collected in the course of a post-registration nursing programme. The data were analysed for internal consistency and intra-rater reliability. The instrument used to assess practice in the present study is highly internally consistent and there is evidence to support intra-rater reliability. However, further development and testing of the instrument is required.