PROFESSIONAL NURSING

VALUES
PIR BUX JOKHIO
OBJECTIVES
• Define values
• Discuss value development
• Elaborate on professional values
• Examine value integration into personal and professional life
VALUES
• Values are fundamental convictions that guide individual nurse’s
actions, interactions with others, judgments, rationalizations, and
choices (Weis & Schank, 2009).
• Values also guide nurses when they make ethical decisions (AACN,
2008).
• Additionally, values influence the identity and image of the nursing
profession as a whole. Because values build the framework for crucial
aspects of nursing practice and nursing’s identity, development of
specific common conceptions deemed “professional values” is an
essential component in undergraduate nursing education.
VALUES DEVELOPMENT
• The specific professional values they expect nursing students to
acquire and internalize, or develop.
• These values are derived from the Code of Ethics, a document with
standards to guide nursing practice.
• Nurses’ fundamental commitments and responsibilities to patients,
the public, themselves, and the profession.
• The five values or ethical domains intended to guide nursing practice:
caring, activism, trust, professionalism and justice.
• Nurses to also develop the professional values of altruism, autonomy,
human dignity, and integrity.
• Nursing students begin the process of developing these values that
“epitomize the caring professional nurse” (AACN, 2008, p.27-28).
Values
• Values can be expressed in terms of adopted behaviors and verbal
expressions or indirectly through verbal expressions and nonverbal
behaviors. Our values influence our preferences and behaviors (Burkhardt
& Nathaniel, 2008).
• It shows that values are a direction and action orientation for the long-
term power and growth of the nursing and it is a basis for mediating the
decision-making processes that nurses commonly confront (Bond,
Mandleco B &Warnick, 2004).
• Nursing values are the most important components for the protection of
high quality standards in the nursing profession (Hosseini, 2012).
• Values influence individuals‘ personal principles, behavior standards and
enable the creation of an ethical framework . Professional values play a
very important role in the nursing profession and constitute the main
source for nursing practices (Burkhardt & Nathaniel, 2008).
EXAMPLE
• Nursing students should learn about and adopt professional values
because when they graduate, the regulating board of nursing, the
healthcare community, and health care consumers expect them to act
according to the Code’s provisions. When nurses do not abide by the
Code, there can be consequences. For example, a hypothetical
dilemma occurs when a nurse notices a well-loved co-worker’s
alcoholism interferes with patient care. The nurse must decide
whether to report the co-worker to a supervisor and potentially face
retribution from co-workers for “turning the nurse in,” or let the
situation 4 continue and simply hope nothing “really bad” happens to
a patient
PROFESSIONALSIM
• Professionalism is a service which is carried out by experts trained in
the field and supported by relevant professional organizations
(Adıguzel, 2011).
• An expertise in a field, knowledge, skill and behavior pattern. It is
getting of superior intellectual education to fulfill the duties, the
result of this education is to reach perfection by gaining knowledge
and experience and to transform the experiences in the direction of
personal principles and to make free activities (Altıok & Üstun, 2014).
• Being a professional means doing the work undertaken in the best
possible way and to promise to the society for quality care. The
caregiver is valuable to society as long as it does well (Karadag, 2006).
• Professional values are the director of nurses' interaction with
patients, colleagues and other professionals and the community
(Leners, Roehrs & Piccone, 2006).
Professionalsim
• A guide to ethical behavior to provide security and humanitarian
assistance (Lawler, 2008).
• Professional values are the reflections of personal values and they
were gained in nursing with the process of socialization (Abbaszadeh,
2013).
• These are an important concept that integrates students' critical
thinking and morality which is necessary to provide competent
nursing care in the nursing profession.
• The professional values of nursing students, the teaching of
professional values positively affected the development of the
professional values of the students (Lin et al., 2016).
• Therefore, nursing educators can influence the professional values of
their students by role modeling (Parandeh et al., 2015).
Value development
• The moral performance of nursing educators significantly affects development
and growth of professional values of students in their education programs
(Leners, Roehrs & Piccone, 2006).
• Awareness of professional values ensure that we have the necessary knowledge
to plan, conduct and evaluate specific interventions for better communication
and integration in the professional practice of the nursing. This leads to a better
quality of care in health care (Hoyuelos et al., 2010).
• Nursing students should be aware of their own values during their undergraduate
education and combine these values with professional values of nursing.
• These values are learned and subsequently modified in light of one’s personal
experiences; they lead to behavior patterns that express themselves in action and
facilitate the decision-making processes that nurses face.
• Nursing students’ values are modified and expanded over the course of their
training, including their clinical practice. Values are also developed through the
observation of role models, such as faculty members who set clear expectations.
Value integration
• Professional values are slowly integrated into their learning.
Professional values are those broadly accepted by a professional
group, are necessary for all members of a profession, and are an
essential part of proper nursing practice.
• Professional values inform ethical decision making and support nurses
offering patients a sense of security, along with human care and
attention.
• Some values are related to individual beliefs and are most often
rooted in intrapersonal characteristics.
References
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