Professional Values and Related Factors Among Nurses Employed in South Wollo Zone Public Hospitals

Introduction Nurses require good knowledge about professional values to provide quality nursing care. Implementing professional values in clinical areas improves the quality of patients care. Even though applying professional values had significant impact on the continuity and quality of nursing car...

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Published in:SAGE open nursing 2024-01, Vol.10, p.23779608241309545
Main Authors: Tegegne, Belachew, Shumye, Mekuriaw Wuhib, Zeru, Leul Mekonnen, Yalew, Zemen Mengesha
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Language:English
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Nurses
Nursing care
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Summary:Introduction Nurses require good knowledge about professional values to provide quality nursing care. Implementing professional values in clinical areas improves the quality of patients care. Even though applying professional values had significant impact on the continuity and quality of nursing care, there is scarcity of study on professional values in Ethiopia. Objective The study was aimed to identify the level of nurses’ professional values and related factors among nurses employed in South Wollo Zone public hospitals. Methods A hospital-based, cross-sectional study was conducted among 422 nurses working in South Wollo Zone public hospitals from May to June 2023. Participants were selected by using simple random sampling technique. Nursing Professional Values Scale-Revised was used to measure the professional values. Data entry was performed using Epidata version 4.6.1 and then exported to Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 23.0 for analysis. To identify the strength of association between outcome and independent variables, binary logistic regression was applied. From the final model, those variables having p 
ISSN:2377-9608
2377-9608
DOI:10.1177/23779608241309545