Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 492-498 , August 2010

A Chinese version of the revised nurses professional values scale: Reliability and validity assessment

  • Yu-Hua Lin

      Affiliations

    • Nursing Department, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, No. 8, Yida Rd., Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County 82445, Taiwan, ROC
    • College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, ROC
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Nursing Department, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, No. 8, Yida Rd., Yanchao Township, Kaohsiung County 82445, Taiwan, ROC. Tel.: +886 7 6151100x7719; fax: +886 7 7101598.
  • ,
  • Liching Sung Wang

      Affiliations

    • Nursing manager, Joyful Adult Day Healthcare Center, Rowland Height, CA, USA

,Accepted 22 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2009.10.016

Nurse Education Today
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 492-498 , August 2010