From: Development, reliability and validity of infectious disease specialist Nurse’s Core competence scale
Factors and it’s items | Factor load |
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Factor 1 Professional Development Abilities (eigenvalue 17.859, variance contribution rate 52.527%) | |
2 Be able to distribute, guide, supervise and manage the infectious diseases nurses | 0.826 |
6 Be able to conduct clinical teaching | 0.825 |
1 Be able to conduct lectures | 0.823 |
3 Be able to train other nurses in face of emerging infectious diseases emergencies | 0.813 |
5 Be able to collaborate with other units and departments and effectively coordinate human and material resources, etc. | 0.775 |
9 Be able to manage materials such as drugs, consumable items, documents, instrument and equipment in infectious diseases department | 0.772 |
7 Be able to evaluate and improve the quality of infectious diseases nursing issues and interventions | 0.765 |
4 Be able to improve and innovate on infectious disease nursing process and protective articles | 0.699 |
10 Be able to select and design scientific researches | 0.696 |
8 Be able to search and retrieve literature documents by various ways and assess the quality of the literature | 0.693 |
11 Be able to write papers | 0.626 |
Factor 2 Infection Prevention and Control Abilities (eigenvalue 3.860, variance contribution rate 11.354%) | |
13 Master the processes and methods of putting on the protective articles | 0.807 |
12 Be able to correctly dispose of different medical wastes by infectious diseases patients (such as infectious diarrhea, AIDS, COVID-19, etc.) | 0.806 |
14 Be aware of the protective requirements for different kinds of infectious diseases | 0.787 |
15 Master the skills and processes coping with professional exposure risks such as skin mucous membrane and sharp instrument injury | 0.783 |
17 Be aware of the requirements for different isolation techniques (isolation due to airborne transmission, contact transmission and droplet transmission) | 0.769 |
16 Master the disinfection methods of inpatient ward and instrument and equipment in infectious diseases department | 0.764 |
18 Master the common isolation techniques and methods | 0.732 |
19 Master the tactics of standard and extra precautions | 0.688 |
20 Be familiar with common physical and chemical disinfection | 0.674 |
Factor 3 Nursing Abilities for Infectious Diseases (eigenvalue 1.543, variance contribution rate 4.539%) | |
23 Master the emergence care skills for critical infectious diseases patients | 0.655 |
26 Be familiar with the common diagnosis and treatment in infectious disease departments such as compression hemostasis for Sengstaken Blakemore tube, lactulose enema, and traumatic artetial blood pressure supervision paracentesis | 0.643 |
21 Grasp the pathogenesis of common infectious diseases and the relevant knowledge of diseases including the historical epidemiology, the main nursing points and health education | 0.639 |
23 Be familiar with the basics such as the dosage regimen, administration route, side effects and matters needing attention of drugs which are commonly taken by infectious diseases patients | 0.630 |
25 Be able to draw up nursing plans in accordance with the different state of the different infectious diseases patients | 0.598 |
24 Be able to deal with the symptoms and signs of common diseases such as fever, erythra, diarrhea, twitching and seizure | 0.594 |
Factor 4 Professionalism and Humanistic Accomplishment (eigenvalue 1.425, variance contribution rate 4.192%) | |
28 Be capable of providing psychological counseling and mental nursing | 0.746 |
29 Be capable of providing health education for the infectious diseases patients and the public | 0.742 |
30 Be capable of adjusting oneself and governing the stress in infectious diseases nursing work | 0.717 |
27 Respect the patient and protect patients’ privacy and show no discrimination to the patients | 0.716 |
31 Be passionate about infectious diseases nursing and possess the sense of professional identity of nursing infectious diseases patients | 0.709 |
Factor 5 Responsiveness to Emergency Infectious Diseases (eigenvalue 1.006, variance contribution rate 2.957%) | |
33 Be familiar with the response process of the infectious diseases emergencies | 0.575 |
32 Take part in emergency drills for infectious diseases emergencies in regular terms | 0.536 |
34 Be able to predict and recognize the infectious diseases emergencies | 0.510 |