The document discusses the professional values in nursing, highlighting the importance of protecting and promoting health, as well as preventing illness. Key values include altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, social justice, and advocacy, which guide nurses in their decision-making and patient interactions. These values shape nursing behavior and emphasize ethical care and respect for patients' rights and dignity.

1. VALUES IN nursing
MS. ASTHA SRIVASTAVA
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
GALGOTIAS UNIVERSITY

2. VALUES
Nursing is considered to be protecting, promoting and optimizing health. It also
involves prevention of illness and injury, also facilitating healing alleviating
suffering and providing care to the individuals.
With the help of professional values, nursing profession has credited the legacy of
caring behaviour embodied by the nurses.
Values are goals or beliefs that we develop over a period of time and we reflect in
our behevior. It helps us for decision making. For example, not lying to patients
about his health.
TYPES OF VALUES-
Religous (obtains strength from religious beliefs)
Theoretical (hold truth, rationality and respectable)
Political (values power)
Economic (values usefulness and practicability)
Aesthetic (values beauty, harmony)
Social (values human interactions, sympathetic and unselfish)

3. Value clarification
 Choosing involves cognitive ability - It is the choice made with free will. for
example, individual will not take bride even if no one is watching.
 Prizing and cherishing - The choice made make the individual feel proud
and happy, which is considered as prizing and cherishing is done by publicly
accepting it.
 Affirming acting and repeating- in this stage - In this stage the action or
choice made will reappear is affirming. This become positive commitment and
exhibited in the behavior repeatedly and it lands to a stage where it is exhibited
unknowingly.

4. PROFESSIONAL VALUES IN NURSING
 Altruism - Is the intention or concern for others welfare and their well-
being. Professionally nurses reflect it by caring for the patients’ health, beliefs,
values, advocate on behalf of the patients.
 Autonomy - Is the ability to be self-dependent in terms of making decision
specially related to the health. Nurses in their practice exhibit autonomy by
allowing patients to make decision and seek information or right to deny for
any procedure or make choices out of the given options.
 Human Dignity- Is dependent on the individual perception and dignity is
maintained in the sense of respect toward the other and for self. Human dignity
is for the confidentiality of the patient and healthcare providers.
 Integrity - Is the ability to behave in accordance with code of ethics and
exhibit professional behavior. Nurse shows this by strictly indulging in nurse-
patients relationship only, follwing the code of ethics like being honest, being
responsible, and maintain confidentiality, etc.

5.  Social justice - Is holding the moral and social, humanistic
principles while practicing nursing. Nursing can be observed
providing care without taking in consideration of color creed and
religion, which means they provide care with fairness and
nondiscrimination pattern.
 Advocacy- Means nurse need to act on behalf of the patient as
and when needed. being an effective advocate for the patient
involve assertivenedd, recognitiion of right and values of person
under care.