Core professional and personal values of nurses about nursing in Erbil city hospitals: a profession, not just career

This study was conducted at Cardiac Surgery in Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq and Emergency Management Center at Rizgary Teaching Hospital.

The research group consisted of 54 nurses who graduated from nursing college. Use intentional sample selection, not probabilistic, to obtain representative samples based on the following criteria. Bachelor of Nursing, nurse who agreed to become a research subject, gender and excellent personal communication. Exclusion criteria are administrator nurse and new graduate nurse.

Data was collected using questionnaire by self-reporting method. The questionnaire consists of two main sections. The first part is social demographic features of nurses, such as age, sex, marital status, years of experience. The second part consists of 21 projects, including the value of nurses whose value of care is dispersed in the area of ​​nine care values. The answer consists of three questions always hated and always respected according to the situation, and after the correction by the researcher, it is converted into 0 (wrong) and 1 (correct) answers. Data collection by self-declaration

Researchers were approved by the Faculty of Nursing / Horror Medical University Ethics Committee. Prior to collecting data, official approval by the Health Department's Emergency Management Center (Erbil), Cardiac Surgery and Rizgary Teaching Hospital administration stations was obtained. Researchers kept information of the participants secret and promised to use the data for this research and then explained the purpose of the research to each participant. In addition, researchers told each participant that this is a voluntary job and that you can retire at any time without having to complete the interview process.

Data are analyzed by SPSS for Windows V. for statistical data analysis. 23 (statistics package for scientific services) application. Descriptive statistical analysis (frequency, percentage and average) is included

The purpose of this research is to measure the professional and personal values ​​of nurses and identify the factors that affect these values. Participants were 323 Israeli nurses, asked 36 values ​​and 20 professional values. Three basic occupational care values, human dignity, patient equality, and pain prevention were first evaluated. The top 10 values ​​evaluated are related to nurse's responsibility to the patient. Altruism and confidentiality were not highly appreciated, and health promotion and nursing research were evaluated as the last three occupational values. Honesty, responsibility, and intelligence were first evaluated for personal (tool) value, ambition and imagination were evaluated 18 and 18 on 18 and 16 respectively. Significant differences (P <0.05), education, professional qualifications, positions and areas of professionals were found in some personal and occupational values ​​evaluated as cultural functions.

Nurses are most likely to improve the health of patients. As a profession, nurses need to promote core value and ethics. Nurse practitioner has to understand and practice specific knowledge and skills of core value such as care, advocacy, holism, professional consciousness, etc. to help the patient fall into a critical situation (Volp 2007a). - 2. INTRODUCTION The nurse is the largest health care provider and expert in the world health care system and plays an important role in determining the quality and cost of medical care in Saudi Arabia. The shortage of nurses and high turnover rates are a common problem and this problem has caused great concern in many countries around the world due to the impact on health system efficiency and productivity (Al-Aameri, 2000).