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A new Professional Governance Scale was developed and validated by experts. This 75-item instrument measures professional accountability and decision-making, crucial for autonomous practice.

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Nursing
Healthcare Management
Professional Development

Background:

Professional governance is a developing concept central to autonomous professional practice.
Existing measurement tools for professional governance were lacking.
Defining and quantifying professional governance is essential for evaluating practice environments.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and validate a new instrument to measure professional governance.
To establish content validity for a scale assessing professional accountability, obligation, relationships, and decision-making.

Main Methods:

Instrument development involving item generation and refinement.
Content validity testing conducted by 14 subject matter experts.
Expert review focused on item relevance and overall instrument validity.

Main Results:

A 75-item Professional Governance Scale was finalized.
The instrument demonstrated adequate coverage of all professional governance attributes.
A high Relevancy Mean Individual Content Validity Index (CVI) of 95 was achieved.

Conclusions:

The Professional Governance Scale is a valid instrument for measuring professional governance.
This scale can be used to assess factors foundational to autonomous professional practice.
The validated instrument supports research and evaluation in professional practice environments.