title: Validation of Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Organizational Climate Questionnaire: A New Tool to Study Nurse Practitioner Practice Settings.
abstract: Favorable organizational climate in primary care settings is necessary to expand the nurse practitioner (NP) workforce and promote their practice. Only one NP-specific tool, the Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Organizational Climate Questionnaire (NP-PCOCQ), measures NP organizational climate. We confirmed NP-PCOCQ's factor structure and established its predictive validity.
  
  
  
  A crosssectional survey design was used to collect data from 314 NPs in Massachusetts in 2012. Confirmatory factor analysis and regression models were used.
  
  
  
  The 4-factor model characterized NP-PCOCQ. The NP-PCOCQ score predicted job satisfaction (beta = .36; p < .001) and intent to leave job (odds ratio = .28; p = .011).
  
  
  
  NP-PCOCQ can be used by researchers to produce new evidence and by administrators to assess organizational climate in their clinics. Further testing of NP-PCOCQ is needed.
authors.forename: Lusine
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Poghosyan
authors.forename: William F
authors.initials: WF
authors.lastname: Chaplin
authors.forename: Jonathan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Shaffer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D008875:Middle Aged; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D015279:Organizational Culture; D016134:Organizational Policy; D011320:Primary Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D017132:Workplace