Batool Poorchangizi|Jamileh Farokhzadian|Abbas Abbaszadeh|Moghaddameh Mirzaee|Fariba Borhani
The importance of professional values from clinical nurses’ perspective in hospitals of a medical university in Iran
Kerman University of Medical Sciences|Kerman University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences|Kerman University of Medical Sciences|Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
today nurses required knowledge awareness concerning professional values standards provide safe highquality ethical care nurses perspective professional values affects decisionmaking patient care therefore present study aimed investigate importance professional values clinical nurses perspectivethe present crosssectional study conducted 2016 four educational hospitals kerman university medical sciences iran data collected via persian version nursing professional values scalerevised npvsr weis schank sampling conducted use stratified random sampling method 250 clinical nurses participated studyresults indicated total score nurses professional values high 10257 1194 nurses perspective items maintaining confidentiality patients safeguarding patients right privacy importance however recognizing role professional nursing associations shaping healthcare policy participating nursing research andor implementing research findings appropriate practice less importance statistically significant relationship observed npvsr mean scores nurses age work experience well participation professional ethical training p 005although total score related clinical nurses perspective professional values high importance certain values lower level owing emerging ethical challenges indispensable design educational programs order improve nurses awareness understanding comprehensive importance professional values furthermore recommended mixed methods studies conducted order design instrument evaluate use values nursing practice