Cross-cultural Adaptation and Validation of Professional Scale in Iranian Nurses
Introduction: Professionalism is a fundamental concept in nursing. Today’s society needs nurses who are able to accept and fulfill their professional roles. Specially, nurses of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are one of the most sensitive parts of the hospital and their behaviour is very importan...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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JCDR Research and Publications Private Limited
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research |
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| Online Access: | https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/13981/44756_CE[Ra1]_F(SL)_PF1(AB_SL)_PFA(SL)_PN(SL).pdf |
| Summary: | Introduction: Professionalism is a fundamental concept in
nursing. Today’s society needs nurses who are able to accept
and fulfill their professional roles. Specially, nurses of the
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) are one of the most sensitive parts
of the hospital and their behaviour is very important. In order
to measure their caring professionalism and the leveling of this
process, there are instruments used in Iranian culture.
Aim: This study was aimed to cross-culturally adapt and
validate the Hall’s Professionalism Scale (HPS) in clinical setting
for Iranian nurses of ICU.
Materials and Methods: Methodological study was carried
out with 300 nurses of ICU in Iran. The criteria for selection
of the participants was limited to the nurses who worked full
time in ICU of the mentioned hospitals, were available and
interested to respond to data collection instrument. The crosscultural adaptation of the Professionalism Scale was performed
according to international standards, and its validation was
carried out to be used in the Iran context by means of factor
analysis and Cronbach’s alpha as a measure of internal consistency.
Results: All nurses who participated in the study worked in
ICU with average working experience of 6.77±5.99 years and
their mean age was 34.03±10.3 years. The results of the factor
analysis revealed six factors including factor 1 (the scope of the
Professional Association as reference) with a specific amount of
14.04, factor 2 (believing in the continuing competency) with a
specific amount of 14.42, factor 3 (believing in self-regulation)
16.06, factor 4 (sense of commitment to the profession) has a
special amount of 11.56, factor 5 (independence) with a special
amount of 16.81, and factor 6 (believing in serving society)
with a specific amount of 14.02. The correlation coefficient of
Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the internal correlation
of the instrument, which was 0.89 for all items.
Conclusion: This study showed that the translated version
of the “Nursing Professionalism Scale” is a useful instrument
for helping nurses and nursing authorities to understand the
concept of professionalism and its impact on improving the
clinical status of nurses, patients and organisations, and even
clinical education of nursing students. |
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| ISSN: | 2249-782X 0973-709X |