Aim. To provide an overview of valid and reliable tools focusing on the assessing the quality of nursing work life, and to compare the tools with their psychometric characteristics, and use in clinical nursing practice.
Material and methods. Licensed databases were used: SCOPUS, Web of Science and ProQuest in January 2022. Key words were: assessing/measuring the quality of nursing work life, quality of nurses working life, instrument, hospital nurses.
Results. A total of 129 documents were identified. Based on selection criteria, 25 studies were included to final analysis. The following instruments were used for assessing the quality of nursing work life: Brooks Quality of Nursing Work Life, Quality of Work Life, Work Related Quality of Life scale, Professional Quality of Life scale, and The World Health Organization Quality of Life.
Conclusions. The instruments demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties. However, their use in a specific sociocultural environment requires testing their validity and reliability on a representative sample of respondents in this environment.
