1. Caring value and values
statements
Dr /Mervat Hussien Ahmed
Lecturer of Administration Nursing
Faculty of Nursing
Misr Univeristy
2. Outline
• Values, believes and attitudes
• Types of value.
• Value of caring
• Ethical and non-ethical behaviors
• Dimensions of caring
3. Objectives
At the end of this lecture the student will be able to:
•Define values, believes and attitudes
•Identify Value of caring
•Clarify dimensions of caring
•Differentiate between ethical and non-ethical behaviors
6. Definition of Value
Values:- are Important and permanent beliefs or
ideals shared by the members of a culture about
what is good or bad and desirable or undesirable.
Values have major influence on a
person's behavior and attitude and serve as broad
guidelines in all situations.
7. Types of values
Religious (Strength from religious beliefs)
Theoretical (Holds fact, rationality, and respect)
Political (Values power)
Economic (Values usefulness and practicality)
Aesthetic (beauty, harmony, and form)
Social (Values human interactions, is kind, sympathetic, and
unselfish)
8. Values clarification
It is a process by which people identify, examine, and develop their
own individual values.
Values clarification promotes personal growth by fostering awareness,
empathy, and insight. Therefore, it is an important step for nurses to
take in dealing with ethical problems.
9. Examples of values in nursing field
• Integrity
• Professionalism
• Caring
• Teamwork
• Supervision
10. Definition of believe
• A belief: is probably the most basic value and the one
that changes least.
• A belief is a type of attitude that is based more on
faith than fact.
11. Examples of believes
• I am in charge of my life
• I am not separate from the rest
• People are motivators not barriers to success
• Positive thoughts are powerful and empowering
• My past can be reviewed and rewritten
• Don’t take it personally
• What I learn can be improved and refined
• Forget, forgive, rejoice
12. Attitude
• A predisposition or a tendency to respond positively or
negatively towards a certain idea, object, person, or situation.
• An attitude:- is a disposition or selected behavior. Attitudes
usually consists of different believes, they can be positive or
negative
14. Example of an attitudes
• For example , in case of a person who is scared of an injection or a needle,
the cognitive component might be the fact that an injection would hurt. On
the other hand, the affective component would be the feeling that he/she is
scared of injection. The behavioral component would be that the person
would completely avoid getting an injection or cry at the sight of one. So, an
attitude is essentially like an evaluative statement that is either positive or
negative depending on the degree of like or dislike for the matter in question.
15. Types of Behaviors
•Ethical behavior :- refers to behavior that conforms to
generally-accepted social norms.
• Unethical behavior:- is behavior that does not conform
(مطابقmatch) to generally-accepted social norms.
16. Elements of caring
• There are four elements :
➢Attentiveness,
➢Competence,
➢Responsibility,
➢Responsiveness of the care receiver
17. Values of health care
It is truism الحقيقة
البديهيه that every aspect of health care is
constantly changing.
The patients are free to choose which treatment to have where
and when.
To be implemented, it pre-supposes that : The patients are well
informed about available choices.
18. Continued:
• Patients are in a position mentally and emotionally to make these
choices.
• The patient have the cash resources to pay for them,
• The treatment chosen are available where and when they are
wanted or needed
20. 1. Searching for a colleague who is an expert in deriving blood
samples from persons having very week veins for a seventy years
old patient having kidney cancer in its second degree.
2. Leave your seat in a bus that is not assigned for old age persons.
21. 3. While you are trying to put a patient in a certain X-Ray
position he asked for a cup of water and you tell him that,
taking the film will take 5 minutes then he could take the
water later.
4. A woman came to visit her sister in ICU unit bringing her
1year old baby and you refuse to allow her baby to enter ICU
because this is against rules.
22. Reference
• Pamela J. Grace (2018): Nursing Ethics and
professional responsibility (3rd Ed).
• Thompson IE, Melia KM, Boyd KM (2006): Nursing
Ethics. (5th Ed). El Sevier.
• Dewolf. SM, Savage T.A (2007): The ethical
component of nursing education: integrating ethics
into clinical experience. Lippincott Williams &
Wilkins.
