Psychometric validity of the interprofessional professionalism assessment assessment instrument in nursing education: Short report

The demand for valid and reliable instruments to assess behaviors in interprofessional education (IPE) opportunities coincides with the recent shift in nursing education toward competency-based education (CBE). The purpose of the proposed study is to validate the Interprofessional Professionalism Assessment (IPA) instrument within the context of nursing education. The IPA instrument is used to assess individual interprofessional professionalism (IPP) in IPE and consists of 26 items clustered across six subscales: Accountability, Altruism and Caring, Communication, Ethics, Excellence, and Respect. The proposed study will be among the first to involve psychometric testing of the IPA instrument among the health professions and the first in nursing education, building upon the foundational work of the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative. The aim is to fill the gap in robust assessment tools that measure professionalism within IPE opportunities in a CBE framework. Potential participants for this study include clinical instructors overseeing prelicensure nursing students in the final year of their programs, ensuring a diverse representation of nursing students. The study will have a non-experimental, cross-sectional, and correlational design involving a web-based survey created with Qualtrics to validate the IPA instrument and explore the relationship between the IPA instrument and the Individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (i-TOFT). Confirmatory factor analysis will reveal the interrelationships among the items of the IPA instrument by investigating factor retention.