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Development and Psychometric Testing of the Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Skill Acquisition Tool
Teresa Shellenbarger1, Aaron M Sebach
1About the Authors Teresa Shellenbarger, PhD, RN, CNE, CNEcl, ANEF, was distinguished university professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, when research for this article was conducted. She is now executive director, National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation. Aaron M. Sebach, PhD, DNP, MBA, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, CP-C, CLNC, CNE, CNEcl, SFHM, is associate professor and director of graduate nursing programs, Wilmington University, New Castle, Delaware. The authors acknowledge with thanks the content experts who reviewed the Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Skill Acquisition Tool and Dr. Kyle Johnson for his statistical analysis consultation. For more information, contact Dr. Shellenbarger at tshellenbarger@nln.org .
Aim:
This article reports the development and psychometric testing of an instrument to measure academic clinical nurse educator skill acquisition.
Background:
Little research explores clinical nurse educator competence.
Method:
Using the National League for Nursing Academic Clinical Nurse Educator core competencies and a literature review, newly created clinical nurse educator skill acquisition items underwent two rounds of content validity testing. The resulting 40-item Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Skill Acquisition Tool was pilot tested with a convenience sample of 133 clinical nurse educators.
Results:
The Academic Clinical Nurse Educator Skill Acquisition Tool demonstrated adequate validity and internal consistency reliability. Factor analysis identified two factors: facilitating clinical learning through the use of effective teaching, assessment, and evaluation and promoting nursing enculturation.
Conclusion:
Further use of this tool may provide insight about the psychometrics, offer information about clinical teaching competence, and could lead to improved orientation and mentoring programs for clinical nurse educators.
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