STUDY TO DEVELOP AN INSTRUMENT TO ASSESS THE PERCEPTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING (NURSING, PERCEPTION MEASUREMENT).
Contributors: Virginia Commonwealth University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Sociology, Theory and Methods.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument, The Perceptions of Professional Tool (PPNT), to measure the perceptions of professional nursing among nurses, interdisciplinary team members, and consumers of health care. The hypothesized instrument contained three scales designed to measure the image, role, and professional activities of nursing. The original instrument contained 98 items and was pilot-tested in the summer of 1991 using a sample of convenience of 34 nurses, factor analysis and expert review. The revised instrument for dissertation-testing contained 52 items of which 39 measured image, role, and activities of professional nursing, and 13 examined demographic and unique characteristics of the sample.

Data were collected from a sample of convenience of 349 nurses from 7 states during the summer and early fall of 1992. Data were analyzed using a principal-components factor analysis employed to examine two, three, and four-factor solutions. An analysis of the data suggested that the two-factor solution best represented the concepts developed to measure the perceptions of nursing. The hypothesized scales of image, role, and activities were rejected as measures of the perceptions of nursing. The final instrument contains 32 items measuring the practice of nursing (PRACTICE) and the value of nursing (VALUE).
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04, Section: A, page: 1563.

Thesis (PH.D.)--VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 2383.