Algunas consideraciones acerca de los valores humanos y el profesional de enfermería

Abstract

This article analyzes some aspects related with values and attitudes as basic elements in the formation of nursing professionals, because much of nursing practice is related with theoretic founding and technical and scientific knowledge; humanistic and ethical formation, important aspects for the performance of the profession, developed through human relations, are set aside.

As a matter of fact, knowledge and ethical formation of nursing professionals must be strengthen during undergraduate and postgraduate formation, due to the nurse patient relation influenced by a scale of professional and personal values, and sometimes the professional values may be in conflict with the patient values. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing that states some values as essential for professional nursing practice, it must be considered that the attitudes and values as educative contents does not share the same formal and material structure as the concepts or principles commonly identified as instructive contents or knowledge, because the basic convictions are the ones which serves as criteria to guide ones life and personal dispositions to do something or to prefer one way to act. It is important to use particular strategies for teaching and evaluation, based on qualitative methods.