TESTING FOR RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY OF AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE ABILITY TO FORMULATE NURSING DIAGNOSES IN SENIOR LEVEL BACCALAUREATE NURSING STUDENTS.
Contributors: Columbia University. Teachers College.
Published: 1988
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this research was to test for the reliability and validity of an instrument to measure nursing diagnostic ability in senior level baccalaureate nursing students. Two parallel forms of the instrument (NDAT Form A and NDAT Form B) were developed and tested. The instrument derived from a synthesis of the theoretical framework for diagnostic reasoning best described as information processing and the concrete taxonomy developed by the National Conferences on the Classification of Nursing Diagnoses. The instrument is a written test using clinical simulations (vignettes) in the area of medical surgical nursing.

Interrater reliability between a group of five nursing experts was.8839 (Form A) and.9950 (Form B). Based upon data obtained from a sample of 60 senior level baccalaureate nursing students, parallel form reliability was.7745 and test-retest reliability was.9007. Criterion related validity was established by measuring the correlation between the student's average grade on NDAT Form A and NDAT Form B and their final medical surgical clinical grade (n = 60) and a diagnostic subset score which was part of an overall clinical evaluation score (n = 28). The values obtained, respectively, were.4848 and.6564. Content validity for each of the vignettes ranged from.83 to.94.

The instrument is seen as having value for use in research studies concerned with nursing diagnoses and in educational needs assessment and or quality assurance type projects.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-06, Section: B, page: 2135.

Thesis (ED.D.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE, 1988.

School code: 0055.