Nursing Job Rotation Stress Scale development and psychometric evaluation

Shan Huang; Yu-Hua Lin; Chia-Chan Kao; Hsing-Yu Yang; Ya-Li Anne; Cheng-Hua Wang

doi:10.1111/jjns.12095

Nursing Job Rotation Stress Scale development and psychometric evaluation

Jpn J Nurs Sci. 2016 Jan;13(1):114-22. doi: 10.1111/jjns.12095. Epub 2015 Oct 13.

Authors

Shan Huang^{1

2}, Yu-Hua Lin³, Chia-Chan Kao³, Hsing-Yu Yang⁴, Ya-Li Anne³, Cheng-Hua Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan.
² Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
³ Department of Nursing, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
⁴ Department of Nursing, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan.

PMID: 26460179
DOI: 10.1111/jjns.12095

Abstract

Aim: The aim of this study was to develop and assess the reliability and validity of the Nurse Job Rotation Stress Scale (NJRS).

Methods: A convenience sampling method was utilized to recruit two groups of nurses (n = 150 and 253) from a 2751 bed medical center in southern Taiwan. The NJRS scale was developed and used to evaluate the NJRS.

Results: Explorative factor analysis revealed that three factors accounted for 74.11% of the explained variance. Confirmatory factor analysis validity testing supported the three factor structure and the construct validity. Cronbach's alpha for the 10 item model was 0.87 and had high linearity.

Conclusion: The NJRS can be considered a reliable and valid scale for the measurement of nurse job rotation stress for nursing management and research purposes.

Keywords: job rotation; nurse; scale development; stress.

Publication types

Validation Study

MeSH terms

Factor Analysis, Statistical
Humans
Nursing Staff, Hospital / psychology*
Psychometrics*
Stress, Psychological*
Taiwan