Professionalism

Question 1

What is professionalism?

Answer 1

The way you act and according to what your profession is.

Question 2

What is professional identity?

Answer 2

How a nursing student looks, acts, and reacts.

Question 3

What is a lay person?

Answer 3

One who doesn’t have knowledge of what nursing is.

Question 4

What is the process that a lay person in nursing goes through?

Answer 4

Real experience in hospital, experience in sim lab, role modeling (instructors want you to be when you get out of nursing school), & reflection (Reflect on clinical experience-what you would have done differently). By fourth semester you should have good apprenticeship (Management-you are there on your own with a nurse).

Question 5

What is forming the professional identity?

Answer 5

*Learning & being molded into becoming a nurse. This is what your instructors help with.
*Clarity/Seeing-where you need to be as student. You have to be ready to make the change.

Question 6

What is fostering the professional identity?

Answer 6

*Observing the behaviors of RN’S positivity impact student’s development of their own sense of professional identity. (Your mentor & work experience changes your role as a nurse-adding to nursing situation.) *Unanticipated expectations of the professional and academic nursing role. (You want a healthy good work environment, good coworkers, & managers.

Question 7

What are the five attributes of professional identity & how they differ? Doing, Being, Acting Ethically, Flourishing, & Changing Identities

Answer 7

*Doing- or the consensus or sociological perspective, incorporates the societal and professional codes and standards that are part of the nursing discipline. It also includes a skill orientation, or a “doing” component. You are taking action and setting expectations.

Question 8

What is the being attribute of professional identity?

Answer 8

The personal or psychological view of the nurse professional. Explains what it means to do the right thing even when no one is looking.

Question 9

What is the Acting Ethically attribute professional identity?

Answer 9

Doing the right thing, or acting ethically, is a critical component of professional identity and professional identity formation. (You know what is right & wrong-Guidelines & standards). To live well [means] … to live according to your principles” Living well means being attentive to what is considered right and good from both a societal and a professional perspective

Question 10

What is the Flourishing attribute of professional identity?

Answer 10

Not only necessary to better understand the doing and being of the discipline of nursing, but also one must do so with a sense of positive and transformational growth.(Doing something to help you grow).

Question 11

What is the attribute of changing identities?

Answer 11

-From adolescence on, each time a new identity emerges, a reworking of the person’s identity occurs in order to resolve this new developmental issue. (Leave nursing school & not a lay person anymore).

Question 12

What is a moral?

Answer 12

Personal beliefs of what I think is right or wrong. A person believes that honesty is important than lying.

Question 13

What is a value?

Answer 13

What people think are important to them in their life.(Highly values family-Spend time with family members)

Question 14

What are ethics?

Answer 14

Making a judgement or situation & bringing your morals into it of what is right or wrong.

Question 15

What is accountability?

Answer 15

Being responsible for your actions. Always think twice for doing something. You are responsible for delegating the employees under you (What they did & didn’t do).

Question 16

What is the Scope of Practice for nursing?

Answer 16

Doing what is involved in your job description.

Question 17

What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?

Answer 17

Protecting the pts. Health information/giving privacy/privacy rights/protects employees as well.

Question 18

What is advocacy?

Answer 18

Being the pts. voice and information for them to make the right decisions. You’re listening to your pts. Feelings & communicating what they need/what’s happening. You may have to communicate with the family.

Question 19

What is integrity?

Answer 19

The act of doing what one says they will do & acting accordingly to (what is right legally & morally). Say you gone do something and do what you say you are going to do. Don’t withhold information unless you are instructed not to. Giving medication due at time it is due at. On up to your mistakes!

Question 20

Describe 4 principles of the Code of Ethics (Accountability, Responsibility, Advocacy, & Confidentiality) & give an example of each. This is also part of the scope of practice. What is accountability?

Answer 20

*Answering for your own actions: administers the wrong medications & owning up to it.

Question 21

What is responsibility under the Code of Ethics?

Answer 21

*Willingness to respect one’s professional obligations & to follow up through. (Ex. taking care of all the pts. That are assigned to you effectively.)
*Delegation-Giving tasks to other people underneath you.

Question 22

What is advocacy under the Code of Ethics?

Answer 22

*Refers to the application of one’s skills & knowledge for the benefit of another person(dr. prescribes medication that contradicts another medication that the pt. is already taking).
*So we would advocate to change the medication

Question 23

What is confidentiality under the Code of Ethics?

Answer 23

*Refers to the health care team’s obligation to respect pt. privacy; making sure the EHR is only visible to the pt.’s health care team.
*(You can’t talk about anything involving that pt. with anyone who is not caring for the pt.)

Question 24

What is an ethical dilemma?

Answer 24

You have no right or wrong answer when you have two right choices for you or the pt. but it’s not clear on what to do.

Question 25

What is the Nursing Practice Act?

Answer 25

Tells what you can & can’t do under your license. Legal aspect as well. Part of Board of Nursing Website.

Question 26

What does the Board of Nursing Website pertain to?

Answer 26

*Nurse complaints, scope of practice & what a LPN can do, delegation with employees under RN(what you can delegate to someone else-like a tech or LPN), misconduct, duties licensed nurse can form, & how to register for NCLEX.
*It also protects the public & pts. from us, and etc.
*You pay to get a license.

Question 27

What all does the American Nursing Association pertain to?

Answer 27

*Fostering high standards of nursing practice, safe environment, advocate for safe practices, whistleblower protection, nursing staff-enough employees, provide resources for nurses physical, & emotional health being. *Created for nurses, set code of ethics for nurses, each state sets their scope of practice, & behavior expected of nurses.
*Advocates for us in court system, congress-bills, we are on task for pay & anything the nurses need.)

Question 28

What all does HIPPA pertain to?

Answer 28

*Established in 1996-to help pt. with preexisting conditions to get insurance (Bill Clinton)-Insurance can’t deny you.
*2003-Privacy part was connected to it. Increased technology with EHR, something had to be put in place for pts.
*Records to be private unless they sign a form saying they can send your information to another hospital or insurance company. Form for other people to receive information about you from the provider.
*Can get nurse in trouble if chart is left open, leave computer up, or talk about pts. In hallway. You can’t even look up your own information in a chart & have to go through medical records to get information if you need. It.
*If you put pt. information on social media-you can be kicked out of school & lose your job.