Standardization of Nursing Professional Values Scale in Mashhad School of Nursing Students

The medical science profession is not only limited to acquiring the required knowledge and skills but it also requires specific human attributes that are necessary to pursue this profession. Nurses have a responsibility to make and act on their professional values based on their profession. The purpose of the present study was to standardize the Nursing Professional Values Questionnaire.

In this correlational survey study, 220 students of semester six to eight of Mashhad Nursing and Midwifery Faculty in 2015 were enrolled in the study through the census method. The construct validity of this assay was determined by factor analysis. Factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the factors of the nursing professional values questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis, principal components, Scree test, and varimax orthogonal rotation method were used.

Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis were used in factor analysis of the nursing professional values questionnaire. Exploratory factor analysis, principal components, Scree test, and varimax orthogonal rotation method were used. Finally, according to the significant results of the Kaiser- Meyer- Alkin test and Bartlett's sphericity Olkin; three factors were obtained. These three subscales include the subscales of care, professionalism, and pragmatism.

According to the results of this study, the modified version of the Professional Values Questionnaire is a necessary form to measure the professional values of students. This questionnaire is somewhat different from the one developed by Weis and Schank and has fewer questions that prevent the tester from being tired. Therefore, this questionnaire is suitable for assessing nurses' professional values.