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- Title
Healthcare practitioners' personal and professional values.
- Authors
Moyo, Mpatisi; Goodyear-Smith, Felicity; Weller, Jennifer; Robb, Gillian; Shulruf, Boaz; Goodyear-Smith, Felicity A
- Abstract
Personal and professional values of healthcare practitioners influence their clinical decisions. Understanding these values for individuals and across healthcare professions can help improve patient-centred decision-making by individual practitioners and interprofessional teams, respectively. We aimed to identify these values and integrate them into a single framework using Schwartz's values model. We searched Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, CINAHL and ERIC databases for articles on personal and professional values of healthcare practitioners and students. We extracted values from included papers and synthesized them into a single framework using Schwartz's values model. We summarised the framework within the context of healthcare practice. We identified 128 values from 50 included articles from doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. A new framework for the identified values established the following broad healthcare practitioner values, corresponding to Schwartz values (in parentheses): authority (power); capability (achievement); pleasure (hedonism); intellectual stimulation (stimulation); critical-thinking (self-direction); equality (universalism); altruism (benevolence); morality (tradition); professionalism (conformity); safety (security) and spirituality (spirituality). The most prominent values identified were altruism, equality and capability. This review identified a comprehensive set of personal and professional values of healthcare practitioners. We integrated these into a single framework derived from Schwartz's values model. This framework can be used to assess personal and professional values of healthcare practitioners across professional groups, and can help improve practitioners' awareness of their values so they can negotiate more patient-centred decisions. A common values framework across professional groups can support shared education strategies on values and help improve interprofessional teamwork and decision-making.
- Subjects
MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL decision making; CLINICAL education; INTERPROFESSIONAL education; SCHWARTZ distributions; HIGHER education
- Publication
Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
1382-4996
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10459-015-9626-9