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Measuring Professional Governance: The Swedish Version of the Verran Professional Governance Scale©
Martina Lundmark1, Linda Antonsson, Anette Nobrell
1Author Affiliations: Chief Nursing Officer (Dr Lundmark), Department of Hospital Management, Ystad Hospital, Skåne; MSc Student (Antonsson), Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lund University, and Skåne University Hospital; MSc Student (Nobrell), Department of Neurology, Skåne University Hospital; and Clinical Professor (Hommel) and Associate Senior Lecturer in Care Science (Dr Ramji), Department of Care Science, Faculty of Health and Society, Malmö University, Sweden.
Objective:
To translate the Verran Professional Governance Scale© (VPGS©) into Swedish, adapt it to the Swedish context, and validate it.
Background:
Magnet ® -recognized hospitals have proven successful in reversing negative trends regarding nursing shortage. A change in organizational and management structures is required, and professional governance is fundamental. However, in a Swedish context, there are no validated instruments to measure professional governance.
Methods:
The instrument was translated from English to Swedish and synthesized into a unified version. It was back translated, discussed in an expert panel, and pilot tested with cognitive interviews of nurses.
Results:
A new Swedish version of the VPGS© was developed. The expert group reached a consensus, and the scale-level Content Validity Index value shows high relevance. Some words and sentences were revised, and an introduction was added.
Conclusions:
The study generated a Swedish version of the VPGS©, which can be used to measure nurses' perceptions of professional governance behaviors.
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