1. Validation of Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Organizational Climate Questionnaire: A New Tool to Study Nurse Practitioner Practice Settings.
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Poghosyan L, Chaplin WF, and Shaffer JA
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- Adult, Aged, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Massachusetts, Middle Aged, Organizational Culture, Organizational Policy, Reproducibility of Results, Nurse Practitioners, Primary Health Care, Surveys and Questionnaires standards, Workplace
- Abstract
Background and Purpose: Favorable organizational climate in primary care settings is necessary to expand the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce and promote their practice. Only one NP-specific tool, the Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Organizational Climate Questionnaire (NP-PCOCQ), measures NP organizational climate. We confirmed NP-PCOCQ's factor structure and established its predictive validity., Methods: A crosssectional survey design was used to collect data from 314 NPs in Massachusetts in 2012. Confirmatory factor analysis and regression models were used., Results: The 4-factor model characterized NP-PCOCQ. The NP-PCOCQ score predicted job satisfaction (beta = .36; p < .001) and intent to leave job (odds ratio = .28; p = .011)., Conclusion: NP-PCOCQ can be used by researchers to produce new evidence and by administrators to assess organizational climate in their clinics. Further testing of NP-PCOCQ is needed.
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- 2017
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