Development of Geriatric Nursing Competency Indicators of Nursing Students
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This research aimed to test the congruence of the geriatric nursing competency of the Royal Thai Army Nursing College with the empirical data. The sample consisted of 121 nursing students of the Royal Thai Army Nursing College, obtained through stratified random sampling according to year class. The tool for collecting data was a questionnaire containing 59 items which had passed the content validity check by 4 experts. Cronbach’s alpha coefficients ranged between 776 – .899. The statistics employed in the data analysis were descriptive, correlation analysis, and second-order-confirmatory factor analysis.
The research results showed that the nursing students’competencies in geriatric nursing consisted of four factors with twelve indicators: 1) ability to understand people and situations, 2) ability to provide nursing care, 3) ability to enhance empowerment, and 4) ability to promote health and prevent diseases. Each factor was composed of three indicators. Furthermore, the second-order confirmatory factor analysis results revealed that the model fit with the empirical data ( = 48.250, p = .054, df = 34,
/df = 1.419, CFI = .996, NFI = .986, NNFI = .993, RMSEA = .059). The findings indicated that the ability of health promotion and disease prevention had the highest factor loading (B = .979) while the ability to understand people and situations had the lowest factor loading (B = .741).
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