ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a group of persons who appear to have accommodated themselves or to have become accommodated to certain conflicting values in the work institution and the religious institution. Postgraduate education implies a delay for the student nurse in reaching the "bedside" and an acceptance of the so-called professional goals. More common than the acceptance of one set of institutional values and the rejection of the other, is the mode of accommodation whereby both sets of values are compartmentalized and considered acceptable by those involved, in spite of contradictions apparent to outsiders. In exploring transitions and conflicts in value systems within any occupational group, the sociologist should be aware of modes of adaptation which the occupants may employ. In some cases students who accept the professional value of further education accommodate themselves to the conflicting humanitarian values of bedside nursing by rejecting or ignoring the latter.
