Validity evidence for the nurse-physician intensive care units questionnaire in a Belgian context
(1999) Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée — Vol. 49, n° 1, p. 67-75 (1999)
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- Shortell, Rousseau, Gillies, Devers, and Simons (1991) developed the Nurse-Physician Intensive Care Units Questionnaire,, in order to validate a theoretical model of performance in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). The instrument taps well-established dimensions in organizational psychology, such as communication and styles of handling interpersonal conflict. The purpose of this study was to validate the Shortell et al. questionnaire in a Belgian context and to analyze substantive relationships between its dimensions. The study was conducted in six ICUs from a university hospital. Results show that nursing leadership and authority, communication, and conflict management contributed most to perceived unit effectiveness and job satisfaction. Within-unit consensus was good on most dimensions and between-unit variance was substantial.
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Vandenberghe, C., & D’Hoore, W. (1999). Validity evidence for the nurse-physician intensive care units questionnaire in a Belgian context. Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée, 49(1), 67-75. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/141246 (Original work published 1999)