Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing : JOGNN
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J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs · Jan 2020
Development and Psychometric Testing of the Nurses' Confidence Scale: Unique Families.
To develop and evaluate an instrument designed to measure the confidence of nurses in their ability to provide neutral, compassionate care to unique families in perinatal settings: the Nurses' Confidence Scale: Unique Families. ⋯ The Nurses' Confidence Scale: Unique Families is a new tool with which to measure the confidence of perinatal/neonatal nurses in providing sensitive, specific care to complex/nontraditional families. Results of our psychometric evaluation supported initial acceptable reliability and validity of the scale.