Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure nursing professional values.
Method: Forty preliminary items were selected by classifying 223 basic
items extracted via a literature study and in-depth interviews of subjects and testing the relevance of their contents. In order to verify the reliability and relevance of the preliminary
instrument, data was collected from 504 nurses in 3 general hospitals.
Result: As a result of the item analysis, 29 items were selected from a total of 40 items. Five factors were extracted by factor analysis, and the total variance was 51.5%. For the explanation of variances by factors, the 1st factor, ´self-concept of the profession´ accounted for 14.8%, the 2nd factor, ´social awareness´ 12.1%, the3rdfactor,
´professionalism of nursing´ 9.8%, the 4th factor, ´the roles of nursing service´ 9.1%, and the 5th factor, ´originality of nursing´, 5.6%. Cronbach´s Alpha of those 29 items was .9168, which was high.
Conclusion: This paper is meaningful in a way that it developed a tool capable of measuring nursing professional values, which reflects the characteristics of our
country. In order to re-verify the relevance and stability of this tool, it is necessary that comparative studies should be conducted.
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