Polish Adaptation of the Nurse Professional Competence Scale

19 December 2025 : Clinical Research

Anna Bartosiewicz^{ABCDEF 1*}, Joanna Skowron^{E 2}, Łukasz Oleksy

^{EG 3,4,5}, Olga Adamska

^{F 6}, Artur Stolarczyk

^{EG 7}, Piotr Sulikowski^{C 8}

DOI: 10.12659/MSM.951295

Med Sci Monit 2025; 31:e951295

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Table 3 Standardized factor loadings (CFA) for the NPC-SF subscales.

Subscales of the NPC-SF Scale	Item	Loading	Cronbach’s alpha [95% CI]	p
Nursing care	1	0.860	α=0.933	p<0.001
	2	0.939		p<0.001
	3	0.846		p<0.001
	4	0.911		p<0.001
	5	0.896		p<0.001
Value-based nursing care	6	0.888	α=0.959	p<0.001
	7	0.920		p<0.001
	8	0.858		p<0.001
	9	0.899		p<0.001
	10	0.849		p<0.001
Medical and technical care	11	0.758	α=0.901	p<0.001
	12	0.604		p<0.001
	13	0.722		p<0.001
	14	0.820		p<0.001
	15	0.902		p<0.001
	16	0.895		p<0.001
Care pedagogics	17	0.922	α=0.956	p<0.001
	18	0.943		p<0.001
	19	0.940		p<0.001
	20	0.919		p<0.001
	21	0.906		p<0.001
Documentation and administration of nursing care	22	0.891	α=0.964	p<0.001
	23	0.811		p<0.001
	24	0.906		p<0.001
	25	0.921		p<0.001
	26	0.904		p<0.001
	27	0.890		p<0.001
	28	0.821		p<0.001
	29	0.829		p<0.001
Development, leadership and organization of nursing care	30	0.890	α=0.903	p<0.001
	31	0.885		p<0.001
	32	0.918		p<0.001
	33	0.827		p<0.001
	34	0.791		p<0.001
	35	0.789		p<0.001
NPC-SV – Nurse Professional Competence Short Form Scale; p – probability value; 95% CI – 95% confidence interval, representing the range in which the true population parameter is expected to lie with 95% probability.

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