title: Nursing older people-competence evaluation tool: development and psychometric evaluation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the quality of care provided to older people, the competence of the nursing staff must be measured. This study evaluates a new instrument called Nursing Older People-Competence Evaluation Tool (NOP-CET).
  
  
  METHODS
  A 65-item questionnaire was completed by 1,016 community-based nursing staff and evaluated for validity, reliability, precision, interpretability, acceptability, and feasibility.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The survey demonstrated good content validity; conceptually coherent factor structure explaining 54.98% (knowledge items), 65.03% (skills items), and 52.83% (personal attribute items) of the total variance; and internal consistency (.77-.93).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The NOP-CET showed good validity and reliability as a measure of community-based nursing staff competence and may be used in further investigations of competence in older people nursing.
authors.forename: Pia Cecilie
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Bing-Jonsson
authors.forename: Dag
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hofoss
authors.forename: Marit
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kirkevold
authors.forename: Ida Torunn
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Bjørk
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Foss
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires