Background: Today, nurses are required to have knowledge and awareness concerning professional values as\nstandards to provide safe and high-quality ethical care. Nursesââ?¬â?¢ perspective on professional values affects decisionmaking\nand patient care. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the importance of professional values\nfrom clinical nursesââ?¬â?¢ perspective.\nMethods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 in four educational hospitals of Kerman\nUniversity of Medical Sciences, Iran. Data were collected via the Persian version of Nursing Professional Values\nScale-Revised (NPVS-R) by Weis and Schank. Sampling was conducted through the use of stratified random\nsampling method and 250 clinical nurses participated in the study.\nResults: Results indicated that the total score of the nursesââ?¬â?¢ professional values was high. (102.57 Ã?± 11.94). From\nnursesââ?¬â?¢ perspective items such as ââ?¬Å?Maintaining confidentiality of patientsââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Safeguarding patientsââ?¬â?¢ right to\nprivacyââ?¬Â had more importance; however, ââ?¬Å?Recognizing role of professional nursing associations in shaping\nhealthcare policyââ?¬Â and ââ?¬Å?Participating in nursing research and/or implementing research findings appropriate to\npractice had less importance. A statistically significant relationship was observed between NPVS-R mean scores\nand nursesââ?¬â?¢ age, work experience as well as participation in professional ethical training (P < 0.05).\nConclusions: Although the total score related to the clinical nursesââ?¬â?¢ perspective on professional values was high,\nthe importance of certain values was at a lower level. Owing to the emerging ethical challenges, it is indispensable\nto design educational programs in order to improve nursesââ?¬â?¢ awareness and understanding of the comprehensive\nimportance of professional values. Furthermore, it is recommended that mixed methods studies should be conducted\nin order to design an instrument to evaluate the use of values in nursing practice.
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