European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine ISSN 2515-8260 Volume 07, Issue 03, 2020 553 Nursing Professional Values and Factors Associated with Its Development: Nursing students' perspectives Asmaa Mohamed Esmail Farag 1 , Soheir Mohamed Weheida 2 , Ola Elsebai Badr 3 1 Nursing Education Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt 2 Medical Surgical Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt 3 Nursing Education Department, Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University, Egypt Email:asmaazezo@yahoo.com Abstract: Nursing professional values are the moral knowledge which promote the ethical attitude of nurses, and guide their interaction with patients, colleagues, and community. These values affect the patient's safety and the quality of care. Therefore, it is important to consider its development within nursing education. Aim: identify nursing professional values and factors associated with its development: nursing students' perspective. Design: Descriptive research design was used .Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Alexandria University .Subjects: The subjects comprised of 314 students selected from second academic semester of the year 2018-2019. Tools: I Nursing Professional Values Scale Revised, II Factors associated with nursing professional values development from the students' perspectives. Results: It was found that 57.6% of the nursing students had a high perspective regarding the importance of nursing professional values, and 72.6% of them had a high perspectives regarding the factors associated with the development of nursing professional values, statistically significant correlation was detected between nursing students' demographic , academic data and their levels of perspectives regarding the importance of nursing professional values, in relation to age, residence, academic semester, and academic achievement in previous years (GPA).Conclusion: nursing students perceive caring, justice, and activism to be more important than trust and professionalism as nursing values. Also factors which affect nursing values development are; respectful relationship with nurse educators, work conscience, valuing nursing as a profession, the nursing staff as a role model, educational degrees. Recommendations: Educational workshops about methods of teaching of nursing ethics and values should be given to nursing educators. Keywords: nursing professional values, factors associated with values development. 1. INTRODUCTION: Nursing is a profession that is concerned with enhancing and preserving the health of individuals, families, and communities, diseases prevention, assisting patients in their recovery processes, and relieving pain. Nurses are working by knowing with the help of knowledge, by feeling with the help of values, and by doing with the help of skills. According to that nurses need knowledge, skills, and values to give patients complete care (Ozyazicioglu, Surenler, Ayla, & Atak, 2018). The American Nurses Association (ANA), 2015 established the nursing code of ethics to notify the community what is expected from the nursing profession and to be as a director for professional behavior of the nurses. The nursing code of ethics promotes not only competent,