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Nurses learning specific acts must acquire practical skills, recognize the required abilities and evaluate them
appropriately. This pilot study aimed to develop a nursing practice self-evaluation scale in practical training through the categorization of specified medical acts in Japan. This was a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. Participants were 230 nurses who completed a nursing practice self-evaluation assessment with a four-point Likert-type scale comprising 24 items. The two phases of the study were (a) item analysis and (b) evaluation of the scale’s validity and reliability through exploratory factor analysis (EFA). A total of 227 (98.7%) effective answers were identified. From the EFA results, a nursing practice self-evaluation scale was developed assessing three factors comprised of 19 items: (i) Factor 1 (basic knowledge and attitude), (ii) Factor 2 (roles and responsibility in team medicine), and (iii) Factor 3 (practice of specific acts based on evidence). The goodness of fit by CMIN/DF and RMSEA was an acceptable fit. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient indicating the reliability of this scale was >0.8. The study supports the validity and reliability of this nursing practice self-evaluation scale through the category subjects of specified acts. The findings suggest that it is important for nurses to self-evaluate basic knowledge and attitude, roles and responsibility in team medicine, and the practice of specific acts based on evidence to improve competency.
