Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index (PES-NWI)
HR & WorkReliability: alpha 0.82–0.853 sample items
About this scale
A 31-item measure of nurse practice environment across five subscales: nurse participation in hospital affairs, nursing foundations for quality of care, nurse manager ability/leadership, staffing/resource adequacy, and collegial nurse-physician relations.
Sample item(s)
“Nursing administrators consult with staff on daily problems and procedures”
“Active staff development or continuing education programs for nurses”
“Adequate staff to provide quality patient care”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.82–0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Standard nursing-workforce measure.
Source & citation
Lake, E. T. (2002): Development of the practice environment scale of the Nursing Work Index. Research in Nursing & Health, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 176–188.
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