Countries' cultures and professional nursing values: Cross-cultural evidence from Spanish and Colombian nursing students.

This study aimed to identify countries' cultural values associated with the importance given to certain professional nursing values by nursing students from Spain and Colombia. Weis and Schank's Nurses Professional Values Scale-Revised (NPVS-R) in its Spanish version and the Hofstede cultural classification were used for this purpose. The sample was composed of 880 nursing students.

How work setting and job experience affect professional nurses' values.

Background:: The development of professional values in nursing is directly related to quality and ethical clinical practise and may also increase practitioner and patients' satisfaction. Some factors, such as work setting or work experience, can influence the importance granted to the professional values of nursing.

Objectives:: To compare in primary care nurses and hospital care nurses the importance granted to professional values and to contrast this perception as a function of professional experience.

Nursing professional values: validation of a scale in a Spanish context.

Purpose: To validate culturally the "Nursing Professional Values Scale: NPVS-R" for use in Spain.

Methods: We used the forward and backward translation method with complementary qualitative methodology. We first formed discussion groups to detect cultural differences, then set up a multidisciplinary group to ascertain the equivalence or discrepancies between the English and Spanish versions and to decide on the final pre-test version.