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Annette Elliott1, Michelle Byrne
1About the Authors Annette Elliott, EdD, RN, CNE, is prelicensure undergraduate nursing student educator at Inver Hills Community College, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. Michelle Byrne, PhD, RN, CNE, CNOR, is professor, University of West Georgia Tanner Health System School of Nursing, Carrollton, Georgia. For more information, contact Dr. Elliott at aelliot1971@gmail.com.
Abstract:
Nurse educators have had no clear evidence-based method to evaluate student competency related to professional values. This article describes a comparative analysis in which the list of professional values identified in a research study of undergraduate prelicensure nursing student assignments was compared with a list identified in an integrative review of nursing literature. Comparative analysis allowed for a categorization of professional values that were either congruent between student assignments and literature, exclusively evident in literature, or exclusively evident in student assignments. Findings may contribute to curricular process improvements promoting professional values development in undergraduate nursing students.
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