Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop an educational needs assessment tool for hospital nurse educators. This tool was developed through four stages, (a) Creation of items and a scale that includes as subscales seven aspects of the state of affairs preferred by hospital nurse educators, which were found from qualitative and inductive study; (b) investigation of the content validity of the scale by an expert panel and pilot study; (c) analysis and selection of items based on a national survey; and (d) investigation of the reliability and validity of the constructed scale using selected items. The survey was done with 1,177 hospital nurse educators working at 157 hospitals that had consented to the study from among 330 randomly selected hospitals nationwide. A total of 591 questionnaires were returned (response rate 50.2%), of which 423 were completed and used in the study. Overall, 35 items were selected based on the results of item analysis, and the "Educational Needs Assessment Tool for Hospital Nurse Educators" was completed. Cronbach's α reliability coefficient was .954 for the entire tool and .814 to .895 for the subscales. The correlation coefficient in the test-retest method was .751 (p < .01). In addition, seven factors that reflect the seven subscales were identified from the results of factor analysis. The above shows the reliability of the scale from its internal consistency and stability, and that it has construct validity.
