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    • Nursing Education
    • Healthcare Quality Improvement
    • Clinical Competency Assessment

    Background:

    • Demonstrating competency is crucial for nursing orientation.
    • Standardized assessments using validated instruments enhance patient safety and care quality.
    • A need exists for reliable tools to measure registered nurse (RN) clinical competency.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To establish content validation for a newly developed competency-based assessment for RNs.
    • To align the assessment with the national standard for nursing education.
    • To ensure the assessment accurately measures clinical competency in the medical-surgical specialty.

    Main Methods:

    • Engaged six nurse experts in a rigorous review process.
    • Conducted two rounds of expert evaluation for content validation.
    • Calculated the scale content validity index (CVI) for universal agreement.

    Main Results:

    • The assessment was framed by the domains of the national standard for nursing education.
    • Achieved a scale content validity index universal agreement of .891.
    • All assessment items were evaluated as relevant for measuring RN clinical competency.

    Conclusions:

    • The newly developed competency-based assessment is content-validated.
    • This validated instrument supports high-quality nursing orientation and patient safety.
    • The assessment provides a comprehensive measure of RN clinical competency in medical-surgical nursing.