Chapter 9 Professional & Professional Adjustment Flashcards
- Professional
CONSISTENT exercise of discretion and judgment
Rationale: Professionals engage in work requiring intellectual and varied tasks with consistent exercise of DISCRETION and JUDGEMENT.
- Professional Adjustment
What is the primary focus of professional adjustment in nursing?
Answer: . Development of all capacities [PHYSICAL, MENTAL, SOCIAL and SPIRITUAL] towards efficient performance
Rationale: Professional adjustment involves the holistic development of an individual for effective performance in the nursing profession.
- Adjustment
In the context of education, what does the term adjustment refer to?
Answer:Changes in behavior towards better life and relationships
Rationale: Adjustment in education involves positive changes in behavior towards improvement in life and relationships.~
module:
An educational PROCESS referring to CHANGES IN BEHAVIOR towards better life, better relationships and better contribution to society.
- Professional Competency
What does professional competency in nursing primarily enable a nurse to do?
Answer: Manage or deal with problems that arise in practice
Rationale: Professional competency enables a nurse to effectively manage and ADDRESS PROBLEMS THAT MAY ARISE in their practice.
- Profession
Answer: A calling by which members profess to have acquired special knowledge by training
Rationale: Nursing, as a profession, is characterized by an occupation or CALLING requiring advanced training and experience in some specific or specialized body of knowledge.
- Nursing
How is nursing defined as an occupation?
Answer: Unique body of knowledge and skills serving society
Rationale: Nursing is defined by a unique set of knowledge and skills serving the needs of society.
- Professional Nurse
Who is considered a professional nurse?
Answer: One who completed a basic nursing education program and is licensed
Rationale: A professional nurse has completed both education and licensing requirements.
- Professional Nursing
What is the primary focus of professional nursing?
Answer: c. SKILLFUL CARE of the sick and prevention of illness
Rationale: Professional nursing involves skillful care and equal concern for illness prevention.
- Professionalism
How is professionalism in nursing demonstrated?
a. Low-level personal characteristics
b. Unethical behavior
c. Demonstration of high-level personal, ethical, and skill characteristics
d. Minimal commitment
Answer: c. Demonstration of high-level personal, ethical, and skill characteristics
Rationale: Professionalism demonstrating high-level personal, ethical, and skill characteristics in nursing practice.
module:
Demonstration of high level personal, ethical, and skill characteristics of a member of a profession
Which term describes an occupation that involves predominantly intellectual and varied work, as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical tasks?
a. Professional Adjustment
b. Professional nursing
c. Professional nurse
d. Professional
Answer: d. Professional
Employee engaged in work predominantly intellectual and varied in character as opposed to routine mental, manual, mechanical, or physical work.
Which term describes involving the CONSISTENT EXERCISE OF DISCRETION and JUDGMENT in its performance.
Professional
Which term describes the output or result cannot be standardized within a given period?
Professional
What is a key requirement for a profession that requires knowledge of an advanced type acquired through specialized intellectual instructions?
Professionals often undergo a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instructions for advanced knowledge.
module: Professionals- requiring knowledge of an advance type in a field of science or learning acquired by a PROLONGED COURSE of specialized intellectual instructions.
Which term is used to describe a calling in which members profess to have acquired special knowledge by training, by experience or both to guide others in a specific field?
Profession
