The relationship between the professional values and care behaviors of surgical nurses in Turkey
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15584/ejcem.2023.1.6Keywords:
care behaviors, professional values, surgical nursingAbstract
Introduction and aim. The professional values and the care behaviors of surgical nurse’s play an important role in providing quality patient care and increasing patient satisfaction. The aim of this study was evaluated the relationship between the professional values and care behaviors of surgical nurses.
Material and methods. This descriptive and correlational study consisted of 245 surgical nurses working in Turkey. Data were collected using a Personal Information Form, the Nurses Professional Values Scale, and the Caring Behaviors Inventory-24.
Results. The NPVS total mean score of the surgical nurses was 118.26. The CBI-24 total mean score of the surgical nurses was 5.25. The nurses obtained high mean scores in both the Nurses Professional Values Scale and subscales, and the Caring Behavior Inventory-24 and subscales. A weak, positive and significant relationship was found between the professional values and care behaviors of the surgical nurses (p<0.001). Both the individual and professional characteristics of the surgical nurses affected their perceptions of professional values and care behaviors (p<0.05).
Conclusion. The study showed that they had high perceptions of professional values and caring behaviors and adopted at most human dignity from professional values. Personal and organizational activities should be carried out to improve the professional values of surgical nurses and have them internalize care behaviors.
Downloads
References
International Counsil of Nurses. Nursing definitions. https://www.icn.ch/nursing-policy/nursing-definitions. Accessed March 29, 2019.
Demirbağ BC, Kurt Y, Özkan ÇG, Bayrak B, Kavgacı A, Özbey H. The determination of the care behaviours of nurses and its evaluation by patients. The Malaysian Journal of Nursing. 2018;9(3):61-69.
Tanrıverdi H. Investigation of the relationship between professional values and organizational citizenship behaviour levels of nurses. Ulakbilge Derg. 2017;5(13):1183-1204. doi: 10.7816/ulakbilge-05-13-12.
De Braganca AV, Nirmala R. Professionalism among nurses: a concept analysis. Int J Bus Manag Invent. 2017;6(7):60-66.
Schank J, Weis D. Exploring commonality of professional values among nurse educators in the Unites States and England. J Nurs Educ Pract. 2000;39(1):41-44.
Erkus G, Dinc L. Turkish’ nurses perceptions of professional values. J Prof Nurs. 2018;(34):226-232. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2017.07.011.
Poorchangizi B, Farokhzadian J, Abbaszadeh A, Mirzaee M, Borhani F. The importance of professional values from clinical nurses’ perspective in hospitals of a medical university in Iran. BMC Med Ethics. 2017;18(20):1-7. doi: 10.1186/s12910-017-0178-9.
Göriş S, Kılıç Z, Ceyhan Ö, Şentürk A. Nurses’ professional values and affecting factors. J Psychiatr Nurs. 2014;5(3):137-142. doi:.10.5505/phd.2014.74046.
Can Ş, Acaroğlu R. Relation of professional values of the nurses with their individualized care perceptions. FN Journal of Nursing. 2015;23(1):32-40.
Orak NŞ, Alpar ŞE. Validity and reliability of the Nurses’ Professional Values Scale’s Turkish version. Journal of Marmara University Institute of Health Sciences. 2012;2(1):22-31.
Salimi S, Azimpour A. Determinants of nurses’ caring behaviors (DNCB): preliminary validation of a scale. J Caring Sci. 2013;2(4):269-278. doi: 10.5681/jcs.2013.032.
Xue G, Yi H, Xue P, Sun W. The effects of humanized psychological nursing model in general surgery nursing. Proc Anticancer Res. 2021;5(4):98-102. doi: 10.26689/par.v5i4.2356.
Corbin J. Is caring a lost art in nursing?Int J Nurs Stud. 2008;45(2):163-165.
Yau XC, Tam WSW, Seah HWV, Siah CJR. An exploration of factors influencing inpatient nurses’ care behaviour in an acute hospital setting. Int J Qual Health Care. 2019;31(6):473-479. doi: 10.1093/intqhc/mzy199.
Afaya A, Hamza S, Gross J, Acquah NA, Aseku PA, Doeyela D. Assessing patients’ perception of nursing care in medical-surgical ward in Ghana. Int J Caring Sci. 2017;10(3):1329-1340.
Erol F, Türk G. Assessing the caring behaviours and occupational professional attitudes of nurses. J Pak Med Assoc. 2019;69(9):783-787.
Başara BB, Aygün A, Çağlar Sİ, Kulali B. Health statistics yearbook: newsletter 2020. TR. General Directorate of Health Information Systems of the Ministry of Health. 2021. (Original work (Turkish) Sağlık istatistikleri yıllığı: 2020 haber bülteni. TC. Sağlık Bakanlığı Sağlık Bilgi Sistemleri Genel Müdürlüğü. 2021. https://sbsgm.saglik.gov.tr/Eklenti/41611/0/haber-bulteni-2020pdf.pdf. Accessed March 25, 2019.
Gallegos C, Sortedahl C. An exploration of professional values held by nurses at a large freestanding pediatric hospital. Pediatr Nurs. 2015;41(4):187-195.
Godkin J, Godkin L. Caring behaviors among nurses: Fostering a conversation of gestures. Health Care Manage Rev. 2004;29(3):258-267. doi: 10.1097/00004010-200407000-00011.
Wu Y, Larrabee JH, Putman HP. Caring behaviors inventory: A reduction of the 42-item instrument. Nurs Res. 2006;55(1):18-25. doi: 10.1097/00006199-200601000-00003.
Kurşun Ş, Kanan N. Validity and reliability study of the Turkish Version of Caring Behaviors Inventory-24. Journal of Anatolia Nursing and Health Sciences. 2012;15(4):229-235.
Al Banna DA. Core professional and personal values of nurses about nursing in erbil city hospitals: A profession, not just career. Nurse Care Open Acces JJ. 2017;2(6):169-173. doi: 10.15406/ncoaj.2017.02.00056
He T, Wang L, Ye XC, Du Y, Zhong ZF, Liu H. Perceptions of caring in China: patient and nurse questionnaire survey. Int Nurs Rev. 2013;60(4):487-493. doi: 10.1111/inr.12058.
Alkaya SA, Yaman S, Simones J. Professional values and career choice of nursing students. Nurs Ethics. 2018;25(2):243-252. doi: 10.1177/0969733017707007.
Shahriari M, Baloochestani E. Applying professional values: The perspective of nurses of Isfahan hospitals. J Med Ethics Hist Med. 2014;7(1):1-7.
Lindwall L, Von Post I. Preserved and violated dignity in surgical practice - nurses’ experiences. Nurs Ethics. 2014;21(3):335-346. doi:10.1177/0969733013498527.
Çetinkaya EU, Paslı GE, Aydınlı A. Professional values of Turkish nurses: a descriptive study. Nurs Ethics. 2017;24(4):493-501. doi: 10.1177/0969733015611072.
Shih F, Lin Y, Smith MC,et al. Perspectives on professional values among nurses in Taiwan. J Clin Nurs. 2009;18:1480-1489. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2008.02728.x.
Labrague LJ, Mcenroe-Petitte DM, Papathanasiou IV, et al. Nursing students’ perceptions of their instructors’ caring behaviors: A four-country study. Nurse Educ Today. 2016;41:44-49. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.03.013.
Al Shammari FA, Grande RAN, Vicencio DA, Mutairi SA. Nurses’ professional values on patient care provisions and decisions. J Nurs Educ Pract. 2017;7(9):78-84. doi: 10.5430/jnep.v7n9p78.
Torabizadeh C, Darari F, Yektatalab S. Operating room nurses’ perception of professional values. Nurs Ethics. 2019;26(6):1765-1776. doi: 10.1177/0969733018772077.
Sabancıoğulları S, Doğan S. The professional self development levels and affecting factors of nurses working in a university hospital. Journal of Nursology. 2014:17(1):15-22.
Andrew N. Professional identity in nursing: are we there yet? Nurse Educ Today. 2012;32(8):846-849. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2012.03.014.
Demir DY, Yönder M, Yorgun S, Yıldırım YU, Umur S, Aytekin A. Investigation of nurses’ professional attitudes and factors influencing these attitudes. Journal of nursology. 2014;17(3):158-164.
Kantek F, Kaya A. Professional values, job satisfaction, and intent to leave among nursing managers. Journal Nurs Res. 2017;25(4):319-325. doi: 10.1097/JNR.0000000000000164.
Öz M. Professionalism and organizational citizenship behavior of professional nurses surgery. Afyon Kocatepe University Institute of Health Sciences, Department of Surgical Diseases Nursing Master Thesis, Afyonkarahisar, 2015.
Geyer NM, Coetzee SK, Ellis SM, Uys LR. Relationship of nurses’ intrapersonal characteristics with work performance and caring behaviors: A cross-sectional study. Nurs Heal Sci. 2018;20(3):370-379. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12416.
Aktaş YY, Karabulut N. Professional values in Turkish undergraduate nursing students and its reflection on caring behaviour. KONTAKT. 2017;19(2):125-130. doi: 10.1016/j.kontakt.2017.03.003.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2023 European Journal of Clinical and Experimental Medicine
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Our open access policy is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition: this means that articles have free availability on the public Internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from having access to the Internet itself.
All articles are published with free open access under the CC-BY Creative Commons attribution license (the current version is CC-BY, version 4.0). If you submit your paper for publication by the Eur J Clin Exp Med, you agree to have the CC-BY license applied to your work. Under this Open Access license, you, as the author, agree that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. This facilitates freedom in re-use and also ensures that Eur J Clin Exp Med content can be mined without barriers for the research needs.
