title: Professional values of Turkish nurses: A descriptive study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Professional values improve the quality of nurses' professional lives, reduce emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, increase personal success, and help to make collaborations with the members of the healthcare team more frequent.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to describe the professional values of Turkish nurses and to explore the relationships between nurses' characteristics.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a descriptive study of a convenience sample consisting of 269 clinical nurses. A questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic characteristics, and the Nurses' Professional Values Scale was applied. Ethical considerations: Permission to conduct the study was received from the hospital and the Institutional Review Boards of the Süleyman Demirel University ethic committee.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The mean scale score of the participant nurses was 165.41 ± 20.79. The results of this study revealed that human dignity was the most important professional value for nurses, and the importance attached to these values showed statistically significant differences by age, length of service, educational level, marital status, position at work, and receiving relevant in-service training.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nurses' Professional Values Scale scores showed that nurses give above average and attached importance to professional values.
authors.affiliation: Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Esin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cetinkaya-Uslusoy
authors.affiliation: Trakya University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Eylem
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Paslı-Gürdogan
authors.affiliation: Süleyman Demirel University, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ayse
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aydınlı
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D012945:Social Values / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology
keywords: Nurse; Turkey; nurses’ professional values scale; professional value