EXPLORING NURSING PRACTICE VALUES IN CARING FOR PEDIATRIC TYPE 1 PATIENTS

Nursing is a caring profession. Nursing has a high value on the delivery of safe and quality care. Values are a set of personal beliefs and attitudes about the truth, beauty, and worth of any thoughts, object or behavior1. Values serve as guide to life. Values are action oriented and give direction and meaning to one’s life. Some of the essential core values for nurses are altruism, autonomy, equality, dignity, integrity, social justice and truth. The caring professional nurse integrates these values in clinical practice. These values represent the responsibility and duty to the public, reflecting expanded nursing roles in the current health care environment2. This paper explains the values of nursing practice in caring type 1 diabetes children