Development and validation of Nurses’ Moral Courage Scale

Background:Moral courage is required at all levels of nursing. However, there is a need for development of instruments to measure nurses’ moral courage.Objectives:The objective of this study is to develop a scale to measure nurses’ self-assessed moral courage, to evaluate the scale’s psychometric pr...

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Authors: Numminen, Olivia (Author) ; Katajisto, Jouko (Author) ; Leino-Kilpi, Helena (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2019
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 7/8, Pages: 2438-2455
Further subjects:B Instrument development
B instrument validation
B Nurses
B Psychometric evaluation
B moral courage
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