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Professional nursing values, including dignity, integrity, altruism, and justice, provide a framework for nursing practice. Clarifying these core values is essential for professional identity and public trust.

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Ethics
  • Professional Identity

Background:

  • Increasing ethical dilemmas necessitate nurses internalizing professional values.
  • Diverse conceptions of professional nursing values create ambiguity.
  • A clear understanding of professional nursing values is crucial for maintaining professional identity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To clarify the meaning of professional nursing values.
  • To define the essential attributes of professional nursing values.
  • To establish a unified understanding of professional nursing values.

Main Methods:

  • Concept analysis using Walker and Avant's (2011) method.
  • Literature review of resources from 1973 to 2016.
  • Analysis of concept uses, attributes, examples, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents.

Main Results:

  • Professional nursing values are defined as key principles: human dignity, integrity, altruism, and justice.
  • These values form a framework for nursing standards, practice, and evaluation.
  • Identified defining attributes, borderline, related, contrary, and illegitimate examples, antecedents, consequences, and empirical referents.

Conclusions:

  • Further research is needed for theory development and testing of professional nursing values.
  • Reassessment of existing instruments for measuring nursing values is recommended.
  • Articulated core professional values can unify the nursing profession and enhance public perception.