XSL Getting node text without getting child nodes

<description>Valid Status Code required (“A”, “R”, “P”, “AR”)
    <br />
    <list type="bullet">
        <item>
            <description>A = Approved</description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <description>R = Rejected</description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <description>P = Partial</description>
        </item>
        <item>
            <description>AR = Archived</description>
        </item>
    </list>
</description>

I'm trying to get simply: Valid Status Code required (“A”, “R”, “P”, “AR”) from the description XML node, not the child nodes.

<xsl:value-of select="description" />

Doing this returns the text from everything.

How can I ignore the child nodes?

<xsl:value-of select="description(ignore children)" /> // <- pseudo-code