title: Nursing students' perceptions of clinical teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviours: instrument psychometrics and application.
abstract: The authors present findings of 2nd year nursing students' (N = 352) perceptions of their clinical teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviours (ETB) and to highlight steps undertaken to establish psychometric properties of the Empowering Teaching Behaviours Questionnaire-Student (ETBQ-S). The authors identify a) the process involved in the adoption of the ETBQ-S, b) ETBQ-S validity procedures completed prior to instrument implementation, c) results of nursing students' responses to the ETBQ-S, d) criterion validity, and e) ETBQ-S confirmatory factor analysis findings conducted after study completion. The ETBQ-S reliably measures five facets of empowering actions that clinical teachers can employ with nursing students in practice to enhance their confidence, involve them in decision-making and goal setting, make learning meaningful, and help them to become more autonomous nurses.
authors.affiliation: Western University, Canada. ybabenko@uwo.ca
authors.forename: Yolanda
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Babenko-Mould
authors.forename: Carroll L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Iwasiw
authors.forename: Mary-Anne
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Andrusyszyn
authors.forename: Heather K Spence
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Laschinger
authors.forename: Wayne
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weston
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002170:Canada; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice; D010465:Perception; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011361:Professional Competence; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult