Preparedness to self-employed careers: development, validity, and reliability of an inventory for nursing students.
Career
Italy
Nursing students
Scaledevelopment
Self-employed
Journal
Nurse education in practice
ISSN: 1873-5223
Titre abrégé: Nurse Educ Pract
Pays: Scotland
ID NLM: 101090848
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2022
Jul 2022
Historique:
received:
10
02
2022
revised:
06
05
2022
accepted:
13
06
2022
pubmed:
25
6
2022
medline:
8
7
2022
entrez:
24
6
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To develop and psychometrically validate an inventory based on two scales: awareness regarding factors for determining the prices of freelance activities and knowledge regarding freelance-related norms among nursing undergraduate students in Italy. Although self-employed nursing careers are strategic to enhance employability, no valid scales for assessing nursing students' preparedness to undertake self-employed careers are available. A multi-method and multi-phase design were employed. Phase one encompassed developmental tasks for generating items and phase two included a cross-sectional data collection for determining the psychometric proprieties of the developed scales and their reliability. The final inventory encompassed two scales showing adequate validity and reliability after testing it on 882 Italian undergraduate nursing students. The first scale, factors for determining the prices of activities, is based on care complexity and logistic characteristic (two-factor structure). The second scale, knowledge regarding freelance-related characteristics, encompassed two domains: knowledge regarding administrative rules and pensions and retirement issues. The developed inventory showed adequate evidence of initial validity and reliability, useful for filling the gap given by the unavailability of valid assessments for educators who pursue measuring the nursing students' preparedness to undertake self-employed careers.
Sections du résumé
AIMS
OBJECTIVE
To develop and psychometrically validate an inventory based on two scales: awareness regarding factors for determining the prices of freelance activities and knowledge regarding freelance-related norms among nursing undergraduate students in Italy.
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Although self-employed nursing careers are strategic to enhance employability, no valid scales for assessing nursing students' preparedness to undertake self-employed careers are available.
DESIGN
METHODS
A multi-method and multi-phase design were employed. Phase one encompassed developmental tasks for generating items and phase two included a cross-sectional data collection for determining the psychometric proprieties of the developed scales and their reliability.
RESULTS
RESULTS
The final inventory encompassed two scales showing adequate validity and reliability after testing it on 882 Italian undergraduate nursing students. The first scale, factors for determining the prices of activities, is based on care complexity and logistic characteristic (two-factor structure). The second scale, knowledge regarding freelance-related characteristics, encompassed two domains: knowledge regarding administrative rules and pensions and retirement issues.
CONCLUSIONS
CONCLUSIONS
The developed inventory showed adequate evidence of initial validity and reliability, useful for filling the gap given by the unavailability of valid assessments for educators who pursue measuring the nursing students' preparedness to undertake self-employed careers.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35749961
pii: S1471-5953(22)00097-X
doi: 10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103383
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
103383Informations de copyright
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