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| Profession is a n occupational group with specific set of attitudes and behaviors |
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List Several scholars that though the years tried to define profession.
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Abraham Flexner
Richard H Hall
Muller
Houle
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| What is Abraham Flexner definition of profession ? |
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According to Flexner a professional need to be:
Be intellectual
be responsible
based on evidence-based practice
practical
theoretical
and highly motivated |
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What is Richard H Hall definition of profession ? |
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Hall stated that each profession should develop its own measuring standards with focal points of:
excellent educational qualifications
belief in public service
belief in self population
complete commitment
sense of automony |
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| What is Evidence-based practice? |
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| it is the use of research findings as problem solving, not using trial error or intuitional methods |
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| What is Muller definition of profession ? |
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Muller stated that professionalism invloves
knowlegde and skills
high standards and self regulation
leadership
commitment
self directed activities
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| What is collective identity? |
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According to Hou le each profession should have a group identification
professional characteristics would include
formal training, credentialing, creation of a subculture, legal right to practice,discipline, relationships with clients as well as practitioners |
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| what occupies, or engages one's time, business or employment |
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| vocation, form of employment that provides a needed service to society and possesses characteristics of expertise, auonomy, long academic preparation, commitment, and responsibility |
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So PROFESSION is different from OCCUPATION in at least two major ways
In preparation, and
in commitment
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training may occur in the job, work is manual
decision making is guided by experience or by trial error, values, beliefs and ethics are not prominent features of preparation, commitment and personal identification vary, workers are supervised, people often change jobs, material reward is motivation, accountability rests in employer |
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| education in college or university, prolonged, work involves mental creativity, decision making is based on evidence-based practice,values an beliefs are integral part of preparation, commitment and personal identification are strong, automomous, unlikely to change professions, commitment transcends material reward, accountability rests with individual |
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Mention some barriers to professionalism nursing?
What do nurses have to change and challenge in order to achieve professional power and autonomy |
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different educational entry levels (diploma, AS, BSN)
gender issues (society thinks is a women's job) external conflict ( collaboration with MDs not competition)
Internal conflict (rivaltry among diploma , AS,BSN)
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| Hospitals that attract and retain nurses and achieve better patient outcomes |
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Wheel of Professionalism
Kemp Miller created a model to represent the nursing professionalism |
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| In the center of the Wheel is the essential foundation of nursing education, and is connected to other behaviors necessary to achieve professionalism |
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| In the wheel education, participation,organization, communication, adherence to code of nurses, evaluation, community service, orientation, continuing ed, competence, development, evaluation, and autonomy are all interrelated |
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| What are the three major documents that guide all nurses in their professional commitments? |
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Nursing"s Social Policy Statement 2nd ed
Nursing scope and Standards fo Practice 2nd ed
Code of Ethics for Nurses with InterpretiveStatements |
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| Nursing's Social Policy Statement |
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It provides the definition of nursing and states the obligation that nurses have with society
It is like a social contract between members of the profession and the society |
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| Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice 2nd ed |
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| Outlines the expectations of the profession role which all RN's must practice and delineates the standards of care and associate competencies in order to improve the well-being of all recipients of nursing care |
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| Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements |
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| Is a public document that remains the nurses of their specific responsibilities and obligations |
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| The promotion of collaboration, cooperation, and recognition of interdependence amonf members of a profession |
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