The Verran Professional Governance Scale

     To empirically measure the  characteristics of professional governance in your organization, the Verran Professional Governance Scale© (VPGS) is a valid and parsimonious instrument (22 items). Analysis of empirical data gleaned from the VPGS, including its 3 subscales, informs nurse leader actions to strategically create supportive resources and systems to strengthen the nursing professional practice environment, closely aligned with the sources of evidence within the structural empowerment model component of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®. 

     Nurse scientists will also appreciate using the VPGS  to better understand nursing professional governance and its relationship to nursing, patient, organizational, and other outcomes. To request information on licensing the VPGS in your organization, please complete this information.