Tegegne Belachew, Shumye Mekuriaw Wuhib, Zeru Leul Mekonnen, Yalew Zemen Mengesha
Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Injibara University, Injibara, Ethiopia.
Department of Comprehensive Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia.
SAGE Open Nurs. 2024 Dec 24;10:23779608241309545. doi: 10.1177/23779608241309545. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
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.
The study was aimed to identify the level of nurses' professional values and related factors among nurses employed in South Wollo Zone public hospitals.
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 < .05 and adjusted odds ratio with 95% confidence interval were reported as statistically significant.
The mean (±standard deviation) age was 32.29 (±7.01), with 63% of nurses being males. Less than half, 47.9% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 43.2, 53.4), of nurses had good professional values. Monthly income (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 0.33; 95% CI: 0.16, 0.72), position (AOR = 0.22, 95% CI: 0.13, 0.38), training (AOR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.34, 0.92), promotion (AOR = 3.06, 95% CI: 1.84, 5.1), and respect from one's profession (AOR = 0.48, 95% CI: 0.29, 0.78) were statistically associated with professional values.
The majority of nurses demonstrated poor professional values. Professional values were substantially correlated with monthly income, position, training, promotion, and professional esteem. In order to ensure the quality and continuity of patient care, we advised nurses to be aware of nursing professional values and apply them in clinical settings.
护士需要具备良好的专业价值观知识，以提供高质量的护理服务。在临床领域践行专业价值观可提高患者护理质量。尽管应用专业价值观对护理服务的连续性和质量有重大影响，但埃塞俄比亚关于专业价值观的研究却很匮乏。
本研究旨在确定南沃洛地区公立医院护士的专业价值观水平及相关因素。
2023年5月至6月，在南沃洛地区公立医院工作的422名护士中开展了一项基于医院的横断面研究。采用简单随机抽样技术选取参与者。使用修订后的护理专业价值观量表来衡量专业价值观。数据录入使用Epidata 4.6.1版本，然后导出到社会科学统计软件包23.0版本进行分析。为确定结果变量与自变量之间的关联强度，应用二元逻辑回归。在最终模型中，将那些P值<0.05且调整后的比值比及95%置信区间的变量报告为具有统计学意义。
平均（±标准差）年龄为32.29（±7.01）岁，6
