Tehran University of Medical Sciences Nursing Practice Today 2383-1154 2 1 2015 10 17 16 24 EN Süheyla Özsoy Department of Community Health of Nursing, Nursing Faculty of Ege University, İzmir, Turkey Renginar Özturk Donmez Department of Community Health of Nursing, Nursing Faculty of Ege University, İzmir, Turkey 2015 10 17 2015 10 17 Background  & Aim: Nurses professional values are standards for action and provide a frame- work for evaluating behaviors. This paper is the report of a study designed to assess the psycho- metric  properties  of  the  Turkish  version  of  the  Nurses  Professional  Values  Scale-Revised (NPVS-R). Methods & Materials: This methodological study was carried out a university hospital in Izmir, the third most populous city in Turkey. The sample consisted of 228 nurses, who were recruited from January to August 2008. Data were collected with a socio-demographic form (11 questions) and the Turkish version of the NPVS-R (26 items). Many researchers in various countries have used NPVS-R to identify the professional values of nurses or nursing students. Content validity, construct validity, internal consistency, and reliability were assessed. A P < 0.050 was considered as statistically significant. Results: Responses to the NPVS-R were subjected to exploratory and confirmatory factor analy- sis. Principal  components  analysis  with varimax  rotation  and Kaiser  normalization  resulted  in four-factor solution explaining 52.41% of the common variance, and four factors named profes- sionalism, caring, activism, and trust. Findings supported internal consistency reliability of four factors with alpha coefficients from 0.72 to 0.86 and a total scale alpha coefficient of 0.92. Total- item correlation coefficients ranged from 0.38 to 0.71. Conclusion: The study findings showed that the Turkish version of the NPVS-R has a good struc- tural characteristic and is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used for measuring profes- sional values. https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/view/36 https://npt.tums.ac.ir/index.php/npt/article/download/36/36