Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
Nurs Ethics. 2019 Sep;26(6):1765-1776. doi: 10.1177/0969733018772077. Epub 2018 Jun 21.
Nurses' awareness of professional values and how those values affect their behaviors is an integral part of nursing care. There is a large body of research on nursing professional values, however, a careful survey of the available literature did not yield any studies investigating the status of professional values in operating rooms.
This study aims to investigate the perception of operating room nurses of university hospitals toward professional values.
In this cross-sectional study, data were collected using Schank and Weis's Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS version 16.
The 513 participants of the study consisted of operating room nurses and nurse anesthetists from six university hospitals.
This study has been approved by the ethics committee of the university.
The mean total professional values score of the operating room staff was found to be 100.84 ± 15.685, which indicates that the participants had a positive perception toward observance of nursing professional values in practice. The results showed that the participants considered the domains of justice and activism as, respectively, the most and the least important. The operating room staff's overall professional values scores were not found to correlate significantly with their ages, professional experience, university majors, or attendance at ethics workshops. However, a significant difference was found between the professional values scores of the female and male staff. The professional values scores of the operating room nurses and the nurse anesthetists were not significantly different (p value = 0.494).
Operating room staff's awareness of professional values is essential to providing care to patients based on professional principles. Accordingly, there is need for programs to raise operating room nurses' awareness of their professional duties and improve their professional performance.
护士对职业价值观的认识以及这些价值观如何影响他们的行为，是护理工作的一个重要组成部分。尽管已经有大量关于护理职业价值观的研究，但对现有文献的仔细调查并未发现任何研究调查手术室职业价值观的现状。
本研究旨在调查大学医院手术室护士对职业价值观的看法。
在这项横断面研究中，使用 Schank 和 Weis 的护士职业价值观量表修订版收集数据。使用 SPSS 版本 16 对收集到的数据进行分析。
该研究的 513 名参与者包括来自六所大学医院的手术室护士和麻醉护士。
本研究已获得大学伦理委员会的批准。
手术室工作人员的总职业价值观平均得分为 100.84 ± 15.685，这表明参与者对实践中遵守护理职业价值观持积极态度。结果表明，参与者认为正义和行动主义这两个领域分别是最重要和最不重要的。手术室工作人员的整体职业价值观得分与他们的年龄、专业经验、大学专业或参加伦理研讨会之间没有显著相关性。然而，在男女工作人员的职业价值观得分之间发现了显著差异。手术室护士和麻醉护士的职业价值观得分没有显著差异（p 值=0.494）。
手术室工作人员对职业价值观的认识对于根据专业原则为患者提供护理至关重要。因此，需要有方案来提高手术室护士对其专业职责的认识，并提高他们的专业表现。
