Author(s): Martins, MM ; Gonçalves, Maria Narcisa ; Teles, Paulo ; Bernardino, Elizabeth ; Guerra, Nelson ; Ribeiro, Olga
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/36673
Origin: Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto
Subject(s): Nursing; Nursing Services; Organization and Administration; Professional Competence
Objective: to describe the process of building and validating a scale for measuring the perception of the work done by nurse managers. Method: it is a quantitative, descriptive, methodological study, with literature review and manager’s experience expressed in a previous study, developed through an instrument containing eight dimensions and 42 items, applied to 372 nurses who develop their activity in the area of management in public and private hospitals, with non-probabilistic sampling. For the instrument validation, exploratory factor analysis and internal consistency assessment of each factor/dimension were employed. Results: it is noted that the factorial analysis indicated readjustments in the original composition of the scale from five to eight dimensions, maintaining the 42 items and presenting a high global internal consistency (Cronbach alpha of Conclusion: it is evaluated that the scale has adequate psychometric properties, revealing the potential for use in future studies in the area of management in Nursing.
