Development of a scale measuring nurses' sense of profession and elucidation of factors predicting sense of profession factors

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K20659
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fundamental nursing
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: TAKADA NOZOMU 東北大学, 医学系研究科, 助手 (60746840)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Asakura Kyoko 東北大学, 医学系研究科, 教授 (00360016)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 看護師の専門職態度 / 看護師の専門職意識 / 尺度作成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to develop a scale to measure the professional attitude of nurses in Japan and to clarify predictors of the professional attitude of nurses.
We conducted a conceptual analysis of the nurses' sense of profession and identified that the nurses' sense of profession consists of 12 subordinate concepts. Based on this concept, we created an item pool and developed a scale (nurse professional attitude scale) consisting of 38 items 8 subordinate factors through two questionnaire surveys. Factors predicting the nurses' sense of profession are currently being analyzed.

Free Research Field

看護管理学