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Nurse Professional Values

Nurse professional values are personal beliefs that influence behavior and provide standards for conduct. They include intrinsic values relating to life maintenance, extrinsic values from outside influences, personal values like independence, and professional values prized by nurses such as empathy and skill. Values are acquired through socialization and develop across the lifespan based on intellectual and emotional growth. They provide standards for decision making and give life meaning by motivating behavior.

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Nurse Professional Values

Nurse professional values are personal beliefs that influence behavior and provide standards for conduct. They include intrinsic values relating to life maintenance, extrinsic values from outside influences, personal values like independence, and professional values prized by nurses such as empathy and skill. Values are acquired through socialization and develop across the lifespan based on intellectual and emotional growth. They provide standards for decision making and give life meaning by motivating behavior.

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Nurse professional Values

:Definition of value
:
•A value is a personal belief about the worth of a given
ideas, attitude , custom or object that sets standards that
influence behavior.

•A value system:
• Is a set of values arranged along a continuum of relative
importance
:

•Values are perceptions of worth that people place on


objects, attitudes, ideas and personal traits. They give
direction and meaning to life and serve as general
principles of conduct.

•People demonstrate their values every day by the choices


they make and the actions they take. Values provide a frame
of reference through which people integrate, explain and
judge ideas, events and personal relationships.
:Types of values

1. Intrinsic values: values relating to the maintenance of


life, such as the value of food and water.

2. Extrinsic values: values originating outside the


individual such as the value of people, things and concepts.
3. Personal values: are attributes that individuals hold
dear such as independence, artistic expression and a sense
of humor.

4. Professional values: are attributes prized by a


professional group such as nurse value intelligence,
empathy and skill.

5. Cultural- societal- religious values: are attributes


value by a culture, society or religion.
6. Terminal values: are concerned with end states or
goals such as world peace and career success.

7. Instrumental values: Are desirable modes of conduct


such as honesty and kindness.
The functions and importance of
:values
• 1. They provide standards.

• 2. Reflect personal identity

• 3. Furnish a basis on which to make decisions.

• 4. Give meaning to life.

• 5. Motivate behavior.
• 6. Lead people to make "ought" and "should"
demands on themselves and others.
• 7. Values influence the choice people make and the
way they use their time, spend their money expend
their energy.
• 8. Values affect people's choice of friends, careers
:Acquisition of values
 Values are not inherited. They are taught by modeling and
moralizing and caught by observation, reasoning and
experience. Children learn values as they are socializing
into the family, school and community. As they observe
their parents and other role models and listen to what they
say, children internalize their values and claim them as
their own. .
 . Intellectual and emotional development influence values
through the life span. Young children value concrete objects
such as favorite toys and the physical closeness of parents.
Older children value activities and the company of same- sex
friends.
•Adolescents value peer approval more than family
approval or even personal comfort. Young adults value
achievement and intimate relationships.

• Middle-aged adults value personal and professional


fulfillment. Older adults value health and association with
family and friends
•Values clarification:

•Is the process of gaining knowledge about one's own


personal and professional values.
Actions of values clarification:

•A-Choosing one's beliefs and behaviors:

1. Choosing from alternatives.


2. Choosing freely.
3. Considering all consequences.
•B-Prizing one's beliefs and behaviors:

1. Prizing and cherishing the choice.


2. Publicly affirming the choice.
•C-Acting on one's beliefs:

1. Making the choice part of one's behavior.

2. Acting with a pattern of consistency and repetition.

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