Matlhaba Kholofelo L, Pienaar Abel J, Sehularo Leepile A
School of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Mahikeng, South Africa.
Department of Health Studies, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
Health SA. 2021 Nov 12;26:1602. doi: 10.4102/hsag.v26i0.1602. eCollection 2021.
Little has been done to evaluate clinical competence of community service nurses (CSNs) during the 12-month compulsory community service in South Africa. Evaluating clinical competence of CSNs would be of benefit as it might improve quality patient care and promote patient satisfaction. It therefore became of paramount importance for the researcher to establish some method of evaluating the CSNs' clinical competence during their compulsory service in the North West province (NWP), South Africa.
To evaluate the clinical competence evaluation tool (CCET) for CSNs for reliability and validity.
A selected regional level 2 hospital.
Ten experts participated in the validation process. The tool was tested at one of the public hospitals in the NWP and 11 out of 13 CSNs participated in this process. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 25 was employed and the reliability of the tool was measured using Cronbach's alpha.
This tool's content validity index has exceeded 0.80 and is indicated at 0.98, which reflects excellent content validity. The higher the content validity ratio score the greater the agreement amongst the experts. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients in the six competencies are all greater than 0.7 implying that the tool developed in this study is reliable. All the experts indicated that the tool is clear, simple, general, accessible and important.
From the above-mentioned results, a CCET for CSNs was proven to be valid and reliable.
This was the first tool to be developed in NWP of South Africa.
在南非为期12个月的义务社区服务期间，对社区服务护士（CSNs）临床能力的评估工作做得很少。评估CSNs的临床能力可能会有所助益，因为这可能会提高患者护理质量并提升患者满意度。因此，对于研究人员来说，确定一种在南非西北省（NWP）CSNs义务服务期间评估其临床能力的方法变得至关重要。
评估CSNs临床能力评估工具（CCET）的信度和效度。
一所选定的地区二级医院。
10名专家参与了验证过程。该工具在NWP的一家公立医院进行了测试，13名CSNs中有11名参与了此过程。使用社会科学统计软件包第25版，并使用克朗巴哈系数（Cronbach's alpha）来测量该工具的信度。
该工具的内容效度指数超过0.80，为0.98，这反映出良好的内容效度。内容效度比分数越高，专家之间的一致性就越大。六个能力方面的克朗巴哈系数均大于0.7，这意味着本研究开发的工具是可靠的。所有专家都表示该工具清晰、简单、通用、易于使用且很重要。
从上述结果来看，CSNs的CCET被证明是有效且可靠的。
这是南非西北省开发的首个此类工具。
