title: The Caring Efficacy Scale: nurses' self-reports of caring in practice settings.
abstract: The Caring Efficacy Scale (CES) assesses belief in one's ability to express a caring orientation and to develop caring relationships with clients or patients. This article describes the development of this Likert-type self-report scale to assess nurses' caring efficacy. It also discusses a preliminary reliability and validity study assessing the caring efficacy of novice and experienced nurses from three nursing programs: baccalaureate, nursing doctorate, and master's. The CES was found to have high internal consistency, and it possessed significant positive relationships with a measure of clinical competence.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Coates
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009732:Nursing Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012647:Self-Assessment