title: Nursing Job Rotation Stress Scale development and psychometric evaluation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to develop and assess the reliability and validity of the Nurse Job Rotation Stress Scale (NJRS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A convenience sampling method was utilized to recruit two groups of nurses (n = 150 and 253) from a 2751 bed medical center in southern Taiwan. The NJRS scale was developed and used to evaluate the NJRS.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Explorative factor analysis revealed that three factors accounted for 74.11% of the explained variance. Confirmatory factor analysis validity testing supported the three factor structure and the construct validity. Cronbach's alpha for the 10 item model was 0.87 and had high linearity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The NJRS can be considered a reliable and valid scale for the measurement of nurse job rotation stress for nursing management and research purposes.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan.|Department of Nursing, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Shan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Yu-Hua
authors.initials: YH
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Chia-Chan
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Kao
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, Mackay Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Hsing-Yu
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ya-Li
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Anne
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Business and Operations Management, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Cheng-Hua
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D013624:Taiwan
keywords: job rotation; nurse; scale development; stress