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Thursday, 20 July 2006
This presentation is part of : Evaluating the Attitudes and Perceptions of Student Nurses
Development and Testing of Instruments to Assess Registered Nurse and Baccalaureate Nursing Student Mentoring Relationships
Mary-Anne Andrusyszyn, RN, MScN, EdD1, Carroll L. Iwasiw, RN, MScN, EdD1, Dolly Goldenberg, RN, MA, MScN, PhD1, Cathy Mawdsley, RN, BScN, MScN2, Barbara Sinclair, RN, BScN, MScN1, Kristen Lethbridge, RN, BScN, MScN1, Richard Booth, RN, BScN1, Mickey Kerr, PhD3, Charlene Beynon, RN, BScN, MScN4, Cathy Parsons5, and Judy McKale-Waring, RN, BScN, MScN6. (1) Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (2) Critical Care, London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada, (3) Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, ON, Canada, (4) Professional Health Research and Education Department, Midddleex-London Health Unit, London, ON, Canada, (5) St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, ON, Canada, (6) Nursing Division, Fanshawe College, London, ON, Canada
Learning Objective #1: understand the process of developing theory-based research questionnaires
Learning Objective #2: assess instrument development and testing procedures
 

The development of theory-based questionnaires to assess the nature of staff nurse and baccalaureate student mentoring relationships, transformation in perspectives, and perceived empowerment of nurses and students will be described.  Instrument development and testing is the first phase of a 3-year SSHRC-funded study on mentoring baccalaureate students by staff nurses. Questionnaires were developed by a team of faculty members, graduate students, and clinical practice leaders from acute care and public health agencies to maximize theoretical rigour, comprehensiveness, clarity, intelligibility, usability, and credibility. Items were based on the qualitative results from a pilot study of staff nurse-student mentoring completed in 2004, the Canadian Nurses’ Association (1995) definition of mentorship,  Mezirow’s (1990; 1991) Theory of Perspective Transformation, and Kanter’s (1977; 1993) Theory of Structural Empowerment in Organizations. Criteria used to determine inclusion of items during instrument development and examples of items will be presented. Procedures to assess instrument validity and reliability, as well as the acceptability of the electronic response system, will be described.   

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