Sherpath: Key Characteristics Flashcards
Chapter 3: Nursing's Pathway to Professionalism
what did Ghadirian and colleagues determine as the three attributes of professionalism:
-learning to make decisions correctly in practice
-acquire professional values (beliefs and ideals) consistent across individuals and groups; they continue to develop these values through experiences shaping one’s professional identity
-Standards of practice and psychomotor competencies are requirements of professionalism in nursing
difference between occupation and profession
-A profession is different from an occupation in two ways—preparation and commitment
-Enables professional practitioners to act in a logical, rational manner using scientific knowledge and prescribed ways of thinking through problem
what is professional commitment and interprofessionality
-Professional commitment and interprofessionality are the two major aspects of professions.
-Interprofessionality is a “process by which professionals reflect on and develop ways of practicing that provides an integrated and cohesive answer to the needs of the client/family/population … [involving] continuous interaction and knowledge sharing between professionals”
Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel report (2011) identified four domains of interprofessional collaborative practice competency:
Values/ethics for interprofessional practice
Roles/responsibilities
Interprofessional communication
Teams and teamwork
what is IPE
-Interprofessional education (IPE) across disciplines like nursing, medicine, social work, pharmacy, and others
-goal of IPE is to provide the skills and knowledge to address the health needs of individuals and communitie
three criteria of professions
-service/altruism
-specialized knowledge
-autonomy/ethics
characteristics of the contemporary nursing profession
Services provided are vital to humanity and the welfare of society.
There is a special body of knowledge that is continually enlarged through research.
Services involve intellectual activities; individual responsibility (accountability) is a strong feature.
Practitioners are educated in institutions of higher learning.
Practitioners are relatively independent and control their own policies and activities (autonomy).
Practitioners are motivated by service (altruism) and consider their work an important component of their lives.
There is a code of ethics to guide the decisions and conduct of practitioners.
There is an organization (association) that encourages and supports high standards of practice.
How are Dr. Kelly’s characteristics of professions relevant for professional nursing?
services vital to humanity and the welfare society: Nursing provides services essential to the well-being of people and to society.
special body of knowledge enlarging through research: Nursing has an increasingly well-developed body of knowledge.
services involve intellectual activities and features individual responsibility (accountability): Nursing, a cognitive (mental) activity requiring critical and creative thinking, has developed and refined its own unique approach to practice called the nursing process.
education occurs in institutions of higher learning
nurses are autonomous practitioners meaning
they are responsible for their own practice
Groups that have historically attempted to control nursing practice
organized nursing, organized medicine, and health service administration
Which of Dr. Kelly’s additional characteristics of a profession are relevant for nursing?
-Motivated by service (altruism), practitioners’ work is important in their lives
-Code of ethics to guide the decisions and conduct of practitioners
-An association encouraging and supporting high standards of practice
which organizations have established codes of nursing ethics articulating standards of ethical practice and a framework for moral decision making?
Both the International Council of Nurses and the ANA
What was considered to be the first nursing code of ethics?
The Florence Nightingale Pledge
what is the official and primary advocate for nursing interests and a federation of state nurses associations all RNs are eligible to join
ANA
what are ANA four main purposes
Work for the improvement of health standards and the availability of healthcare services for all people
Foster high standards of nursing
Advocate for workplace standards that foster safe patient care and support the profession
Stimulate and promote the professional development of nurses and advance their welfare
