Chapter 9 Flashcards
employee engaged in work predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work.
Professional
- involving the consistent exercise of discretion and judgment in its performance.
Professional
a character that the output produced or result accomplished cannot be standardized in relation to a given period of time.
Professional
- the growth of the whole individual and development of all his/her capacities, physical, mental, social and spiritual towards efficient and effective performance of his/her profession.
Professional Adjustment
requiring knowledge of an advance type in a field of science or learning acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instructions.
(specialized education and expertise, autonomy, commitment, societal responsibility for maintenance of standards of work)
Professional
- an educational process referring to changes in behavior towards better life, better relationships and better contribution to society.
Adjustment
a calling in which its members profess to have acquired special values, knowledge, training or by experience so that they may guide others in that special field
Profession
- an occupation or calling requiring advanced training and experience in some specific or specialized body of knowledge which provides service to society and that special field.
Profession
- The ability to use knowledge, skills, activities and make judgment to enable a professional nurse to manage or deal with problems that arises in the practice.
Professional Competency
- a calling by which members profess to have acquired special knowledge by training, by experience or both so that they may guide or advice or serve others in that field an occupation usually involving relatively long and specialized preparation on the level of higher education and governed by its own code of ethics
Profession
- Demonstration of high level personal, ethical, and skill characteristics of a member of a profession
Professionalism
- is an occupation requiring a unique body of knowledge and skills and which serves society.
Nursing
Prestigious occupation with a high degree of identification among members that requires lengthy and rigorous education in the intellectually demanding and theoretically based course of study;
- engages in rigorous self-regulation and control;
- that holds authority over client’s;
- and that puts service to society above simple self-interest.
- is a person who has completed a basic nursing education program and is licensed in his/her country or state to practice professional nursing.
Professional Nurse
- an art and a science in which certain principles are applied in the skillful care of the sick in appropriate relationship with the client and the physician and with others who have related responsibilities.
Professional Nursing
- it is concerned equally with the prevention of illness and conservation of health.
Professional Nursing
A. Professional Preparation:
The professional nurse must:
- Have a license to practice nursing in the country;
- Have a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing; and
- Be physically and mentally fit.
B. Personal Qualities and Professional Proficiencies:
The personal qualities and professional proficiencies of a nurse include:
- Interest and willingness to work and learn with individuals/groups in a variety of settings;
- A warm personality and concern for people;
- Resourcefulness and creativity as well as a well-balanced emotional condition;
- Capacity and ability to work cooperatively with others;
- Initiative to improve self and service;
- Competence in performing work through the use of nursing process;
- Skill in decision-making, communicating and relating with others and being research oriented; and
- Active participation in issues confronting nurses and nursing.
- Growth of the whole person in the development of his capabilities to make him fit to assume his position.
Professional Adjustment
Educational Preparation for Nursing
Baccalaureate Nursing
Graduate Education in Nursing