title: [Development of a measurement of intellectual capital for hospital nursing organizations].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was done to develop an instrument for measuring intellectual capital and assess its validity and reliability in identifying the components, human capital, structure capital and customer capital of intellectual capital in hospital nursing organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  The participants were 950 regular clinical nurses who had worked for over 13 months in 7 medical hospitals including 4 national university hospitals and 3 private university hospitals. The data were collected through a questionnaire survey done from July 2 to August 25, 2009. Data from 906 nurses were used for the final analysis. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Cronbach's alpha coefficients, item analysis, factor analysis (principal component analysis, Varimax rotation) with the SPSS PC+ 17.0 for Windows program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Developing the instrument for measuring intellectual capital in hospital nursing organizations involved a literature review, development of preliminary items, and verification of validity and reliability. The final instrument was in a self-report form on a 5-point Likert scale. There were 29 items on human capital (5 domains), 21 items on customer capital (4 domains), 26 items on structure capital (4 domains).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of this study may be useful to assess the levels of intellectual capital of hospital nursing organizations.
authors.affiliation: Kidney Center, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea.
authors.forename: Eun A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Keum Seong
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Jang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D006280:Health Workforce / Q000458:organization & administration; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D058436:Knowledge Management; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult