title: Adaptation and validation of the instrument positions on the nursing process.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  estimate the psychometric properties in the adaptation of the instrument Positions on Nursing Diagnosis to assess nursing staff members' attitudes towards the nursing process.
  
  
  METHODS
  methodological study with a non-probabilistic sample of 973 nursing assistants and 632 baccalaureate nurses from 35 hospitals and outpatient clinics affiliated with the São Paulo State Health Secretary. The validity of the 20-items instrument was checked through confirmatory factor analysis, which identified a more generally secondary-level factor, constituted by the three classical attitude factors. Reliability corresponded to 0.954 for the total instrument.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the validity and reliability of the instrument Posições sobre o Processo de Enfermagem are appropriate .
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  further research is needed to verify whether the items behave differently according to the respondent's professional category and to verify the instrument's behavior when applied to student samples.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. guedes_erika@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Erika
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Souza Guedes
authors.forename: Regina Marcia
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cardoso de Sousa
authors.forename: Ruth Natalia Teresa
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Turrini
authors.forename: Valéria Troncoso
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Baltar
authors.forename: Diná de Almeida Lopes
authors.initials: Dde A
authors.lastname: Monteiro da Cruz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009736:Nursing Process; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires