Professional Values of Nurses and Affecting Factors

Nursing is a profession that emergence of human needs, prioritizes, protects, maintains, improves the health of the individual, family and society, and provides care in situations that negatively affect health. Nursing, which dates back to human existence, has become a profession that adapts to time, constantly renews and develops itself, and requires multi-directional thinking and acting, without changing its goals, changing its practices and training. The nursing profession has provided the formation of nursing behaviors, philosophies and values in this development process. Nursing has become a profession with values and ethical principles. The world we live in is constantly changing due to many factors such as war, natural disaster, climate change, epidemic disease. Nursing needs to preserve its values in order to both survive and develop in an ever-changing world. For this reason, it is important to reveal the values of the nursing profession, its importance in the nursing profession, why it is necessary and how it contributes to its development, and to carry these values to the new generation nurses