Designing Nursing Knowledge Management Questionnaire

Increasing nurses' participation in policy, planning and decision making of their organizations is a new priority in capturing and disseminating knowledge, and from frontline nurses it is expected that they will produce and manage their professional knowledge as active employees of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to design a nursing knowledge management questionnaire.

The present study was a correlation study that for the design a content domain of the questionnaire, a basic questionnaire was developed after field research and a Extensive library studies of 27 items. To determine the index and content validity ratio, the questionnaire was given to 10 faculty members of the faculty member of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. For internal consistency and repeatability, a questionnaire was filled out for 84 nurses working in Besat Hospital in Hamadan. Reliability was determined using Cronbach's alpha and Pearson correlation coefficient.

Six items from the initial questions with low content validity ratio were excluded from the study. The final questionnaire was compiled with 21 items. content validity ratio was finally 0.84 and content validity index In the dimension of being simple was 0.99%, Relevant 92.9% and Clarity 98.3%, respectively. The content validity index was 96.4%. The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated using Cronbach's alpha test (0.84) and Pearson correlation coefficient (0.90).

The final questionnaire of knowledge management with 21 items has high reliability and validity and the final questionnaire is a standard tool for nursing filed use.