Professionalism Flashcards
What is professionalism?
The way you act and according to what your profession is.
What is professional identity?
How a nursing student looks, acts, and reacts.
What is a lay person?
One who doesn’t have knowledge of what nursing is.
What is the process that a lay person in nursing goes through?
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).
What is forming the professional identity?
*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.
What is fostering the professional identity?
*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.
What are the five attributes of professional identity & how they differ? Doing, Being, Acting Ethically, Flourishing, & Changing Identities
*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.
What is the being attribute of professional identity?
The personal or psychological view of the nurse professional. Explains what it means to do the right thing even when no one is looking.
What is the Acting Ethically attribute professional identity?
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
What is the Flourishing attribute of professional identity?
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).
What is the attribute of changing identities?
-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).
What is a moral?
Personal beliefs of what I think is right or wrong. A person believes that honesty is important than lying.
What is a value?
What people think are important to them in their life.(Highly values family-Spend time with family members)
What are ethics?
Making a judgement or situation & bringing your morals into it of what is right or wrong.
What is accountability?
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).
What is the Scope of Practice for nursing?
Doing what is involved in your job description.
What is HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)?
Protecting the pts. Health information/giving privacy/privacy rights/protects employees as well.
What is advocacy?
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.
What is integrity?
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!
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?
*Answering for your own actions: administers the wrong medications & owning up to it.
What is responsibility under the Code of Ethics?
*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.
What is advocacy under the Code of Ethics?
*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
What is confidentiality under the Code of Ethics?
*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.)
What is an ethical dilemma?
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.
