Measuring Professional Governance: The Swedish Version of the Verran Professional Governance Scale©.

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 theVPGS©, which can be used tomeasure nurses' perceptions of professional governance behaviors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]