Nursing as a Profession
Nursing as a Profession and the Professionalism Standards
Erika Troutman, RN
Nursing 408 Conceptual Bases in Nursing
Linda Jacobson, MSN, RN, PHN, COI, R.N., MSN, PHN, COI , R.N., MSN, PHN, COI , R.N., MSN, PHN, COI
January 31, 2013
Abstract
This paper will discuss the many aspects of my nursing career and what led me to the area in which I choose to work now, and also the standards of nursing as a profession. Ideas that professionalism amongst the nursing community can affect much more than our patients, so we need to find ways and things we can do to improve nursing professionalism including how some may see us simply based on what color scrubs we are wearing. Two nursing journal articles including profession and professionalism and a synopsis of them are included. They will discuss some of the significance and the historical contributions they play today, studies done and perhaps if there is a concern about the nursing profession. I will discuss a nursing theorist and the conceptual ideas they have inspired for nursing in the past, if this is still true in the present and hopefully generations to come.
Nursing Professionalism Nursing professionalism can mean many things but may be different to everyone. I believe nursing professionalism means to uphold the standards of nursing as a profession and to follow all guidelines given by our State Board of Nursing, facility in which we work and community in which we live. Nursing professionalism also includes adhering to all ethical and legal obligations we have to ourselves as nurses and to our patients. Without nursing professionalism, we would not have boundaries. No boundaries of uniform and no boundaries of scope of practice. The general public would possibly have no different ideas of what we do versus what we are held to do by our licenses. We should and we can make a difference daily at work, no matter what area we have chosen to be in. We are all held
Erika Troutman, RN
Nursing 408 Conceptual Bases in Nursing
Linda Jacobson, MSN, RN, PHN, COI, R.N., MSN, PHN, COI , R.N., MSN, PHN, COI , R.N., MSN, PHN, COI
January 31, 2013
Abstract
This paper will discuss the many aspects of my nursing career and what led me to the area in which I choose to work now, and also the standards of nursing as a profession. Ideas that professionalism amongst the nursing community can affect much more than our patients, so we need to find ways and things we can do to improve nursing professionalism including how some may see us simply based on what color scrubs we are wearing. Two nursing journal articles including profession and professionalism and a synopsis of them are included. They will discuss some of the significance and the historical contributions they play today, studies done and perhaps if there is a concern about the nursing profession. I will discuss a nursing theorist and the conceptual ideas they have inspired for nursing in the past, if this is still true in the present and hopefully generations to come.
Nursing Professionalism Nursing professionalism can mean many things but may be different to everyone. I believe nursing professionalism means to uphold the standards of nursing as a profession and to follow all guidelines given by our State Board of Nursing, facility in which we work and community in which we live. Nursing professionalism also includes adhering to all ethical and legal obligations we have to ourselves as nurses and to our patients. Without nursing professionalism, we would not have boundaries. No boundaries of uniform and no boundaries of scope of practice. The general public would possibly have no different ideas of what we do versus what we are held to do by our licenses. We should and we can make a difference daily at work, no matter what area we have chosen to be in. We are all held
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