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Alessandro Stievano PhD researcher Centre of Excellence Nursing Scholarship Ipasvi Viale Giulio Cesare 78 IT [email protected] Prof Dyanne Affonso Nursing Centre of Excellence Nursing Scholarship Ipasvi Rome IT [email protected] Prof Rosaria Alvaro Nursing Tor Vergata University Rome IT [email protected] Dr Nicola Barbato Nursing Tosinvest Group Rome IT [email protected] Director GennaroRocco Nursing Centre of Excellence Nursing Scholarship Ipasvi Rome IT [email protected] PhD Laura Sabatino Nursing INAIL Rome IT [email protected] PROFESSIONAL RESPECT: IMPORTANT DIMENSIONS TO NURSES IN ITALY AND ENGLAND Background: Quality of care is elusive when nurses' professional respect is variable and not integral to clinical practice morals. Favorable patient outcomes are associated with nursing practice in moral environments of intrinsic and social respect. Aim: To describe what dimensions are important to nurses regarding professional respect in community and hospital practice in Italy and England to advance knowledge of professional respect. Design/Method: Qualitative data via focus groups (20 in Italy and 11 in England) were collected from two purposive samplings of nurse participants: 124 nurses from 12 Regions of Italy and 62 nurses from the South and the North of England. Data analysis involved coded responses with inductive content analysis extracting meaning units from the group work transcripts. Result: Respect of persons, a dimension of Darwall's recognition respect1 emerged as the primary theme. Three other dimensions connected to appraisal respect1 were compared and discussed: professional interactions inclusive of time to build trust in professional relationships, workplace characteristics, and nurses' professional autonomy and decision-making. Conclusion: Participants valued nursing practice permeated by teamwork as an indicator of professional respect. However, they perceived its application in practice as complex especially in Italy where lack of interdisciplinary teamwork dominates via the inequitable relationship of doctors and nurses in many hospitals. Nurse leaders were also not perceived as change-agents in facilitating professional respect in Italy and England. Another critical factor of professional respect that needed attentio n was the organizational structure of hospital facilities to reconcile work overload and nurse-patient ratios. Keywords: Clinical nurses, England, Italy, Nursing professional dignity, Professional respect Congress Topics: Ethics In The Workplace 18 |