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    Top 5 Nursing Values and How To Apply Them

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    The document discusses the top five nursing values: compassion, trustworthiness, humility, accountability, and curiosity. It provides examples of how to apply each value. Compassion involves treating every patient with empathy and dignity, like they are family. Trustworthiness is essential due to the trust patients and staff place in nurses. Humility means remaining open-minded despite medical knowledge and experience. Accountability requires taking ownership of mistakes and errors. Curiosity means continuing to learn beyond graduation to provide the best care. Applying these core values ensures the trust and confidence of patients and fellow medical staff.

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    The document discusses the top five nursing values: compassion, trustworthiness, humility, accountability, and curiosity. It provides examples of how to apply each value. Compassion involves treating every patient with empathy and dignity, like they are family. Trustworthiness is essential due to the trust patients and staff place in nurses. Humility means remaining open-minded despite medical knowledge and experience. Accountability requires taking ownership of mistakes and errors. Curiosity means continuing to learn beyond graduation to provide the best care. Applying these core values ensures the trust and confidence of patients and fellow medical staff.

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    The document discusses the top five nursing values: compassion, trustworthiness, humility, accountability, and curiosity. It provides examples of how to apply each value. Compassion involves treating every patient with empathy and dignity, like they are family. Trustworthiness is essential due to the trust patients and staff place in nurses. Humility means remaining open-minded despite medical knowledge and experience. Accountability requires taking ownership of mistakes and errors. Curiosity means continuing to learn beyond graduation to provide the best care. Applying these core values ensures the trust and confidence of patients and fellow medical staff.

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    The document discusses the top five nursing values: compassion, trustworthiness, humility, accountability, and curiosity. It provides examples of how to apply each value. Compassion involves treating every patient with empathy and dignity, like they are family. Trustworthiness is essential due to the trust patients and staff place in nurses. Humility means remaining open-minded despite medical knowledge and experience. Accountability requires taking ownership of mistakes and errors. Curiosity means continuing to learn beyond graduation to provide the best care. Applying these core values ensures the trust and confidence of patients and fellow medical staff.

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    Top 5 Nursing Values And How To

    Apply Them

    By Moira K. McGhee

    What are the top five nursing values and why are they so important?

    Nursing is a caring, compassionate profession. Nurses do not just perform tasks or


    provide services, they develop an empathy for the needs of others and a connection with
    their patients.

    Applying nurse core values in all your actions ensures the trust put in your hands by your
    patients and fellow medical staff is well justified.

    Nursing Values: How to Apply the Top 5 Nurse Core


    Values
    Apply these top five professional nursing values in your everyday practices to retain the
    trust and confidence of your patients and fellow medical staff members.

    1. Compassion

    Compassion encompasses empathy, caring and the promotion of each patient’s dignity.

    Being sensitive to the needs of your patients and your patients' families is one of the most
    fundamental nursing values, but Matthew Thomson, a CCRN with ten years in the nursing
    field, cautions against burnout.

    “Nurses get burned out and suffer from compassion fatigue,” explains Thomson.

    “However, we need to remember that even though we have seen something a thousand
    times, this is probably their first. Treat every patient like they were your family member,
    and treat their guests like they were your own.”

    2. Trustworthiness
    Nurses are among the most trusted groups of people, making trustworthiness one of the
    most essential nursing values and vital to your integrity and ethical behavior.

    Patients and fellow medical staff depend on their trust in your confidentiality, faithfulness
    and responsibility to your patients and their needs.

    3. Humility

    Nursing is one of the most rewarding, fulfilling career paths. With it comes a wealth of
    medical knowledge and skills that allow you to facilitate healing and alleviate suffering
    through diagnosis and treatment, but humility should also be your companion.

    Thomson advises nurses to remain humble.

    “Whether you're a nurse graduate or a nurse with 30 years of experience, we can all
    improve on our skills and knowledge,” Thomson explains. “Keep an open mind and open
    heart. Your patients will reap the benefits.”

    4. Accountability

    Professional nursing values wouldn’t be complete without accountability. Thomson


    stresses the importance of taking ownership over your practice, including every mistake,
    error in judgment or failure to communicate.

    “Practice a mental exercise where you assume every problem is 100 percent your own
    fault,” explains Thomson.

    “How did you contribute to a problem? What could you have done better? How can you
    improve next time? It forces you to take an active role in your life and keeps you from
    blaming others.”

    5. Curiosity

    Nursing knowledge encompasses all the theories, philosophies, research and practice
    wisdom of the nursing profession. You should never stop learning.

    As Thomson points out, “graduation is only the beginning of a nurse’s education. Curiosity
    and an insatiable desire to learn separates mediocre nurses from great ones.”

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