Psychometric Analysis of Two New Scales: The Evidence‐Based Practice Nursing Leadership and Work Environment Scales

Abstract

The EBP Nursing Leadership Scale and the EBP Work Environment Scale are psychometrically sound instruments to examine organizational influences on EBP.

Effectiveness of an Evidence‐Based Practice Nurse Mentor Training Program

“…The mentors completed a demographic questionnaire, the Evidence‐Based Nursing Questionnaire (Nagy, Lumby, McKinley, & Macfarlane, ), and Confidence Scale (Spiva, ) pre‐ and posttraining. Similarly, pre‐ and posttraining, the nurses completed a demographic questionnaire, Evidence‐Based Nursing Practice Questionnaire (Nagy et al., ), Barriers to Research Utilization Scale (Funk, Champagne, Wiese, & Tornquist, ), EBP Nurse Leadership (Pryse, ; Pryse, McDaniel, & Schafer, ), and EBP Work Environment Scale (Pryse, ; Pryse et al., ).…”

“…For EBP work environment scale, an 8‐item scale was used to measure nurses’ perception of support provided by the organization (Pryse, ; Pryse et al., ). The items are rated on a 5‐point Likert scale (1 = strongly disagree and 5 = strongly agree ).…”

Predictors of Evidence‐Based Practice Implementation, Job Satisfaction, and Group Cohesion Among Regional Fellowship Program Participants

“…The literature is replete with evidence and opinions that efforts to educate nurses regarding EBP have improved nurses’ knowledge and attitudes. However, these efforts have not necessarily resulted in actual improvements in EBP implementation, nor have they changed clinical practices (Aarons et al., ; Melnyk et al., ; Pryse et al., ). Although barriers to EBP implementation have been well‐documented, some authors have also cited the importance of organizational culture and leadership in reducing barriers and fostering EBP implementation.…”

“…Although EBP is considered to be the gold standard in nursing practice, the actual implementation of EBP has been inconsistent due to barriers related to nursing workload, lack of organizational support, lack of EBP knowledge and skills, and poor attitudes toward EBP (Brown et al., ; Ramos‐Morcillo, Fernandez‐Salazar, Ruzafa‐Martinez, & Del‐Pino‐Casado, ; Squires, Estabrooks, Gustavsson, & Wallin, ). Although many hospitals have used professional development courses individually to encourage nurses’ implementation of EBP through improved nurses’ knowledge and attitudes about EBP, successful outcomes have been elusive (Melnyk, Gallagher‐Ford, Long, & Fineout‐Overholt, ; Pryse, McDaniel, & Schafer, ; Underhill, Roper, Siefert, Boucher, & Berry, ).…”

Nurses’ KAP related to research conduct and utilization: EBNP “are we ready yet.

“…Traditionally, the factors examined in nursing had been explained to be determinants of research use that are characterized as individual or personal factors, such as; age, attitude toward research use (Chien, et al, 2013), clinical setting factors and prior research knowledge (Eizenberg, 2011;Sanjari, et al, 2015) as well as the employment status and years of experience in the nursing profession (Wallin, et al, 2012). Pryse, McDaniel, and Schafer (2014) explained that organizational factors also have an influence on the nurses' research conduct and utilization Those factors include: complexity and size of the health care facility, presence of a research champion, traditionalism, access to, and amount of resources, as well as organizational support and professional autonomy (Abad-Corpa et al, 2013). More attention is given to contextual factors in promoting research use in healthcare settings.…”