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Nursing care values in clinical practice

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent nurses accept nursing care values in clinical practice. It was investigated with regard to their level of education and years of work experience. Subjects and methods: The study included 129 nurses working at Clinic of Surgery, Clinical Hospital Centre Osijek. The research instrument was a standardised Caring Nurse-Patient Interactions Scale: 70-item Version (Nurse Version), (CNPI-70). To determine the difference in measured parameters between two groups of subjects Mann-Whitney test was used, while Kruskal Wallis test was used to determine the differences between three and more groups. To determine the significance of the obtained results, significance level α =0.05 was chosen. Results: The highest scores were given to nursing care values in the subscales of clinical skills: Assistance with the gratification of human needs (4.7), Environment (4.7) and Teaching (4.3), while the lowest score was given to Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and others (3.8). The level of education of nurses does not have influence on their humanistic-altruistic values (p<0.95), as well as on other nursing care values. Nurses who have over 30 years work experience gave significantly lower score to the item Accepting patients as they are without prejudice (p=0.006). Nurses who have more work experience gave higher scores to Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological-Spiritual Forces regarding the scale in total (p<0.001), as well as single items, while there is no significant difference in other nursing care values according to work experience. Conclusion: This study showed that nurses attach more importance to clinical skills necessary for solving a patient's health problems in relation to other nursing care values. There are no significant differences in accepting attitudes and nursing care values in clinical practice according to level of education of nurses. Nurses who have more work experience gave higher scores to Allowance for Existential-Phenomenological-Spiritual Forces, while there is no significant difference in other nursing care values according to work experience.

nursing care; values; clinical practice.

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