While Professional Values Can Be Transmitted by Tradition in Nursing

Multiple Choice

While professional values can be transmitted by tradition in nursing classes and clinical experiences, or modeled by expert nurses and assimilated as part of the role socialization process, which is perhaps the best method of acquiring them?

A) There must be pride in and happiness with the choice.
B) The value must be acted upon in a pattern of behavior consistent with the choice.
C) The value should be the result of conscious choice.
D) The value must be chosen after careful consideration of each alternative.