Professional and Personal Values of Nursing in Turkey

Abstract

"Those values which must play critical roles in the professionalization of nursing and in practical nursing, also have strategic impact in their acceptance or rejection by the professional community.

Nurses are with individuals during birth and death, illness and healing. So if they are without knowledge of their own and their patients' values, it seem impossible for them to provide expected nursing services. Here, especially, such questions as "what should I do?" as so often asked by the bedside nurse with responsibilities for patient care, can only find adequate answers when framed within patients' values as well as their own. The definition of the nurse-patient relationship as forming values can contribute to the ethical dimension of nursing practices, and, thus, should result in qualified nursing care (1-5)."