Importance Of Professional Values Research Articles

The Importance of Professional Values from Clinical Nurses' Perspective

Introduction: Values become necessary to direct nurses' professional behavior as a dignified profession.Objective: This research aimed to identify Indonesian nurses' professional values and explore essential professional value items based on clinical nurses' perceptions.Methods: This research used mixed method research. As many as 517 nurses filled out the Nursing Professional Value Scale Revised (NPVS-R) questionnaire from April to May 2019 and ten clinical nurses were included in the semi-structured interview. Results: The professional values of nurses were 97.30 ± 14.15. As many as 74.3% of nurses perceived the professional values of nurses at a high level. There was a significant difference between education level and nurse caring (P value 0.001 <0.05). The most dominant dimension of nurse professional values was the caring dimension of 56.55 ± 8.19. Three themes were obtained from the qualitative research, namely: Caring, Professionalism and Trust.Conclusions: As the findings suggest, we need to pay more attention to professional values, especially professionalism and trust for the nurses to work in today's complex healthcare context. Introducción: Los valores se vuelven necesarios para orientar el comportamiento profesional de la enfermera como una profesión digna.Objetivo: Esta investigación tuvo como objetivo identificar los valores profesionales de las enfermeras de Indonesia y explorar elementos esenciales de valor profesional basados en las percepciones de las enfermeras.Material y métodos: Esta investigación utilizó una investigación de método mixto. Hasta 517 enfermeras completaron el cuestionario Revisado de la Escala de Valor Profesional de Enfermería (NPVS-R) de abril a mayo de 2019 y se incluyeron diez enfermeras clínicas en la entrevista semiestructurada.Resultados: Los resultados cuantitativos obtuvieron que la puntuación media de los valores profesionales de las enfermeras fue de 97,30 ± 14,15. Tanto como el 74,3% de las enfermeras perciben los valores profesionales de las enfermeras en un nivel alto. Hubo una diferencia significativa entre el nivel educativo y el cuidado de la enfermera (valor de p 0,001 <0,05). La dimensión más dominante de los valores profesionales de enfermería fue la dimensión de cuidar de 56,55 ± 8,19. De la investigación cualitativa se obtuvieron tres temas, a saber: Cuidado, Profesionalismo y Confianza.Conclusiones: Como sugieren los hallazgos, debemos prestar más atención a los valores profesionales, especialmente la profesionalidad y la confianza de las enfermeras para trabajar en el complejo contexto sanitario actual.

Importance of Professional Values in Nursing and Healthcare

Any professional group has primary standards called professional values. These values are considered as the guideline and motivation of professional behavior for the members of a certain profession [1]. According to Weis and Schank, professional values are standards for action that are accepted by professional groups and individuals, and are used to evaluate the integrity of the individual or organization

Actualization of professional values in the context of formation of professionalism in future nurses

Scientific views on professionalism and professional values of the specialists were elucidated. The importance of professional values in the structure of nurses’ professionalism was considered. It was noted, that the specificity of nurse’s professional activity needs the strict observance of ethical norms and rules, prohibitions and limitations that is conditioned by the professional feature – the permanent intervention in spiritual and biological life of other people.It was established, that the effective method of formation of professional values of the future specialist of nurse work is the nurse tutorship that is realized through the love to the nurse profession. The great importance in the context of formation of professional values of future nurses was gained by the spreading of foremost experience of training of students of the department “Nurse work”; discussions, competitions in the nurse mastership. The features of actualization of professional values of future nurses as a component of their professionalism were characterized. The approaches that favor actualization of professional values of the future specialists of the nurse work, especially the use of innovative pedagogical technologies, were determined

The Professional Values of Program Directors and Head Athletic Trainers: The Impact of the Hidden Curriculum

Context: Athletic training education programs (ATEPs) promote the development of foundational behaviors of professional practice. Situated in the context of professional values, ATEPs are challenged to identify outcome measures for these behaviors. These values are tacitly reflected as part of the hidden curriculum. Objective: To ascertain the importance of professional values as perceived by program directors and head athletic trainers at professional ATEPs located in the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers' Association (GLATA) district. Design: Cross-sectional survey design. Setting: 77 ATEPs in GLATA and accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education (CAATE). Participants: We surveyed a convenience sample of program directors and head athletic trainers from CAATE-accredited ATEPs in GLATA. We partitioned the 146 participants by their professional role: program director (PDs), head athletic trainer (HATs), and program director/head athletic trainer (PD/HATs). Main Outcome Measure(s): We measured differences among PDs, HATs, PD/HATs relative to their unfamiliar values, important values, top three ranked values, and perceived importance with articulating professional values. Results: Altruism and aesthetics were identified as the 2 most frequently unfamiliar values among PDs and HATs, whereas PD/HATs identified 1 value, altruism. Truth/honesty and integrity were the most frequently selected values by PDs and HATs. Truth/honesty and respect were the most frequently selected values by PD/HATs. Truth/honesty was ranked the most important value by HATs and PD/HATs. Truth/honesty and integrity were tied as the number one ranked value by PDs. There was a significant difference in ranking between PD and PD/HAT in regard to the professional values of truth/honesty and integrity. Conclusion: Truth/honesty, integrity, respect, accountability, and caring are important professional values of ATEP PDs, HATs, PD/HATs in GLATA. It is important for the NATA to explicitly articulate professional core values.

On reading “The banning of books in libraries”

PurposeTo reflect on an editorial from an earlier issue entitled “The banning of books in libraries”.Design/methodology/approachA discussion of the argument presented in the original editorial and its connection to present‐day concerns over the use and dissemination of information and links to other issues, together with the maintenance of a professional ethos in the face of those concerns.FindingsA set of moral absolutes does exist from which librarians can derive an ethos for the operation of their services. Such absolutes take on a greater significance in the complex moral climate in which we now live, but are now under threat.Practical implicationsThis article calls on library and information professionals to maintain their stand in the face of increasing pressures to compromise attitudes.Originality/valueReflects on the continuing (and increased) importance of professional values.

Toward building an international consensus in professional values

Although the importance of professional values has been espoused and national codes for nurses exist, there is a lack of systematic study to ascertain the commonalities of values among professional nurses. As part of a larger international study of professional values, nursing students from England and the USA ( n = 130) were surveyed to determine congruence of values. The Professional Values Scale (PVS) instrument was used to collect data. Results showed a high degree of congruence among nursing students. The incongruencies found may be related to cultural differences in education and practice.