A composite score of 27 is possible on the BIPN and
its Japanese version. The mean composite score
achieved by the 525 nurse managers was 9.19
(SD = 3.89). The highest category score was obtained
in ‘competence and continuing education,’ and the
lowest category score was in ‘publication and communication’
(Table 2). The total mean scores of nursing
professionalism were increased by the years of nursing
experience as a nurse (Table 3). Administrators had
significantly higher total scores of nursing professionalism
than nurse managers (mean 14.17 and 8.86,
respectively, P < 0.0001) and all professional subscales
were significantly high in administrators.