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Fundamental Values in Nursing Care: The Person's Perspective.

Ivo Cristiano Soares Paiva1, Cláudia Patrícia da Costa Brás1, Marília Maria Andrade Marques da Conceição E Neves1

  • 1University of Coimbra, Portugal.

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Integrating patient values into nursing care is crucial for ethical practice. Key values include dignity, respect, and empathy, influenced by nurse commitment and organizational support.

Keywords:
ethicsnursing carepatient valuespatient-centered careprofessionalprofessional-patient relations

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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Healthcare Ethics
  • Patient Experience

Background:

  • Person-centered care necessitates integrating patient values into nursing practice for ethical and humanized care.
  • Limited evidence exists on fundamental patient values and their integration into nursing care.
  • Values encompass ethical, relational, and professional dimensions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Identify fundamental values of care recipients.
  • Determine values expected by patients from nurses.
  • Explore factors influencing the integration of these values into nursing care.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative, descriptive, exploratory study design.
  • Convenience sample of 11 recently hospitalized participants.
  • Semi-structured interviews analyzed using Mayring's content analysis approach.

Main Results:

  • Four themes emerged: personal values, expected nurse values, nurse attributes, and influencing factors.
  • Core patient values: dignity, respect, empathy, privacy, competence, honesty, beneficence, affection, humanization.
  • Influencing factors: resource constraints, workload, professional awareness, training, vocation, institutional philosophy.

Conclusions:

  • Integrating patient values is essential for ethical, humanized, person-centered nursing.
  • Successful integration requires nurse commitment and supportive organizational conditions (resources, leadership).
  • Further research should explore nurses' perspectives and organizational strategies for value integration.