General practitioners (GPs) need to feel that they are doing a good job in providing care of high quality in a humane manner - that they are "good" doctors. The General Medical Council booklet Good Medical Practice is full of imperatives, but short on values that are the determinants of behaviour. Much has been written on doctors' professional values in the past decade, but it is not easy for i...

PURPOSE To determine the congruency in value orientation of graduating students in baccalaureate and associate degree programs. DESIGN AND METHODS A survey design with a convenience sample of 1,450 graduating nursing students from all baccalaureate and associate degree nursing programs in Texas. Data were collected using the Nurses Professional Values Scale (NPVS). Descriptive and parametric ...

The main research question addressed in this two-phase descriptive study was 'What are the values underlying nurses' professional identity as expressed through what is meaningful in nurses' work? The first phase was a survey of 767 randomly selected nurses with one, five, and 10 years of experience in nursing, and in the second phase data on work-meaning were obtained from a convenience sample ...

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...

BACKGROUND The 2015 American Nurses' Association Code of Ethics reinforces professional values in nursing, and nurse educators may need evidence of their students' professional development. METHOD Using the Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R), researchers examined two questions: What is the relative importance of professional values (i.e., caring, trust, justice, activism, and p...

INTRODUCTION The Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved, and Special populations (LOCUS) program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is a longitudinal, extracurricular experience for medical students who wish to develop leadership skills and expand their involvement in community health activities during medical school. The program consists of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the professional values of Turkish nursing students, and to explore the relationships between their characteristics. METHODS The cross-sectional study participants consisted of 416 nursing students who were studying in a nursing faculty in Western Turkey. A questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic and educational characteristics and the Nursing Professional ...

Background: Evolution of the audit profession and its ability to gain public trust will depend on compliance with code of professional ethics. Fraudulent activities indicate the weakness of the ruling ethical values in work and training environment. The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, ethical climates and ethical values of companie...