VALORES PESSOAIS E PROFISSIONAIS DE ENFERMEIROS.

Objective: To analyze publications on nurses' personal and professional values and their relationship with nursing education and clinical practice. Methods: Integrative review of articles indexed in the MEDLINE, LILACS and CINAHL databases published between 2014 and 2019, which addressed personal and professional values in nursing, being analyzed by descriptive statistics of the frequencies and analysis of thematic content of Bardin. Results: Thirteen articles were selected, in Portugueses, Spanish and English, in eight different journals. The countries that had institutions affiliated to the studies were Turkey, Canada, Spain, Colombia, United States, Brazil and Iran. The places where the studies were developed were in higher education institutions, hospitals and basic health units. The most used methodology was quantitative. The constituted thematic categories were: instruments for evaluating nursing values, description of nursing values and associated factors, intergenerational differences and evolution of values. Conclusion: It was concluded that the search for knowledge about nursing values is universal, but little addressed in the Brazilian context. Human dignity was the most represented value in studies. The formation of values contributes to the training and improvement of qualified professionals that contributes to safety in clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]