Understanding and measuring nurses' professionalism : Development and validation of the Nurses' Professionalism Inventory

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AIMS: To develop a self-report assessment inventory to evaluate nurses' professionalism and test its validity and reliability.

BACKGROUND: Professionalism is essential for nurses' development. To promote professionalism, evaluation indices must be developed.

METHODS: The Nurses' Professionalism Inventory (NPI) was constructed through a literature review and interviews with expert nurses and other medical personnel. An anonymized cross-sectional survey that included this inventory was administered to 5,739 nurses in hospitals throughout Japan.

RESULTS: A total of 4,183 (72.8%) questionnaires were returned, of which 3,655 (63.7%) with valid responses were used for further analyses. The Nurses' Professionalism Inventory consists of five subscales containing 28 items: (a) accountability, (b) self-improvement, (c) professional attitude, (d) advancement of the nursing profession and (e) professional membership. The internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha) ranged from 0.84 to 0.90. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that this five-factor structure had good fit. The test-retest intraclass correlations were consistently greater than 0.6.

CONCLUSIONS: The Nurses' Professionalism Inventory is valid and reliable.

IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: The Nurses' Professionalism Inventory could be used to evaluate changes in nurses' professionalism and programmes designed to promote nurses' professionalism.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28

Enthalten in:

Journal of nursing management - 28(2020), 7 vom: 06. Okt., Seite 1607-1618

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ichikawa, Naoko [VerfasserIn]
Yamamoto-Mitani, Noriko [VerfasserIn]
Takai, Yukari [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Makoto [VerfasserIn]
Takemura, Yukie [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cross-sectional studies
Health personnel
Journal Article
Nurses
Professionalism

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Date Completed 28.07.2021

Date Revised 28.07.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/jonm.13116

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM313206287