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Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Values for professional nursing practice: an introduction -- Chapter 2: Being a professional nurse: practising to the Code -- Chapter 3: Expectations of professional nurses -- Chapter 4: Nursing practice within ethical frameworks -- Chapter 5: Nursing practice within legal frameworks -- Chapter 6: Dignity and nursing practice -- Chapter 7: Person-centred and holistic nursing care -- Chapter 8: Working in partnership with service users, carers and families -- Chapter 9: Working in partnership within interprofessional teams -- Chapter 10: Vulnerability and safeguarding adults and children -- Chapter 11: Challenging poor practice and raising concerns -- Chapter 12: Promoting best practice and continuing professional development -- Back Cover

The article presents the results of an empirical study conducted through a survey among 123 students studying to become teachers at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridskiˮ. The purpose of the study is to identify the professional values of this target group. The results testify to prevailing postmodern and constructivist professional values, but also fluctuations in the value orientation regarding the active role of the teacher and the student in the learning-teaching process. Responsibility, respect, empathy, professionalism, adaptability, motivation and patience were identified as general professional values.

by Xing Rong. ; Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-81). ; Abstract also in Chinese. ; ABSTRACT --- p.ii ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --- p.iii ; Chapter CHAPTER I --- Introduction --- p.1 ; Chapter CHAPTER II --- Conceptualization --- p.17 ; Chapter CHAPTER III --- Method --- p.30 ; Chapter CHAPTER IV --- Results --- p.37 ; Chapter CHAPTER V --- Discussion & Conclusion --- p.70 ; REFERENCES --- p.77 ; TABLES --- p.81 ; FIGURES --- p.94 ; APPENDIX --- p.96

The main purpose of this study is to determine the work values of high school students and to compare the differences between students from different residence places (developed and underdeveloped cites). We used a quantitative approach in order to determine the influence of the variable mentioned above on the attitudes and beliefs regarding work values. To collect data, we used The Multidimensionality Work Ethic Profile, an inventory that measures seven dimensions of work values: self-reliance, morality, leisure, hard work, centrality of work, wasted time and delay of gratification. The research tool was applied on a sample of 214 high school students coming from two different residence environments characterized by different levels of development. We performed a series of Independent T tests in order to compare the scores that were given to each dimension. We discovered that the students, regardless of their residence environment, place the same value on the seven dimensions.

Professions and organizations institutionalize values. These values may clash when professionals participate in organizational decision making. This article investigates the interplay between professional values and organizational purposes in the organizations that formulated federal subsidized housing policy between 1968 and 1977. Policy professionals in these organizations are committed to public finance theory, a branch of welfare economics that stresses policy criteria consistent with classical liberalism. Public finance theory was consistently influential in the President's Office of Management and Budget, briefly influential in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and never influential in Congress. Objections to it, though never codified, can be inferred from the public finance prescriptions Congress rejected. Professionals rationalize rejections of their preferred policies by defining standards of good policy as sharply distinct from political realities that legitimately affect policy determinations. This definition, however, unnecessarily compromises the integrity of organizational deliberations and, thereby, the integrity of organizational purposes.

The concern is with the ongoing debate in the US over what constitutes responsible professional practice. In journalism, this debate revolves around objectivity, detachment vs advocacy, O vs watchdog functions. 2 diff sets of belief systems concerning the functions of the media & the role of the journalist ("neutral" & "participant") are described & their antecedents & correlates are analyzed. Data from a survey among a nat'l probability sample of 1,313 Amer journalists, collected by the Nat'l Opinion Res Center, are used. The importance journalists attach to various media functions, the extent to which their conceptions of the media fit with "neutral" & "participant" images of journalism, & the professional & soc characteristics of those oriented to diff conceptions of journalistic responsibility were studied. A multivariate analysis of the evidence shows that journalists can clearly be classified along the 2 diff sets of belief systems, although there are overlaps. Educ & training may be the primary influence on which belief system a journalist adopts. The 2 camps are also org'ed along ecological lines, with one functioning primarily within the Ur environment, & the other in smaller communities. These contexts both stimulate & reinforce the 2 sets of values. Interpreting the segmentation primarily as general conflict is considered inadequate. 3 Tables, 1 Figure. M. Maxfield.