Views on profesisonalism

Question 1

Lists of traits and behaviors

Answer 1

Criteria for being a good professional, how to behave, exclusive right to perform certain tasks

Question 2

Traits of a professional

Answer 2

Specialised knowledge
Altruistic
Reflexivity

Question 3

A profession is an organized professional group that

Answer 3

Defines standards for training
Criteria of competence
Quality criteria
Code of ethic
Has exclusive rights to perform certain tasks

Question 4

Views on professionalism

Answer 4

1. List of traits and behaviors
2. As a role played in society
3. As a social construction
4. As means and affect of social control

Question 5

As a role played in society

Answer 5

Functionalism
Professionals have certain traits and behaviors because of their function they have for society
Expected to act in public interest
Social contract based on trust
Have certain rights because of their important function

Question 6

Medical professionality

Answer 6

Values, relationships and behavoirs society has to support and justify the trust people have in doctors
Forms the foundation of the social contract between the professional group and society

Question 7

As a social construction

Answer 7

Professionals compete with each other for jurisdictional control
Boundary work and professional clashes

Question 8

Professional clashes

Answer 8

Differences in professional identities and core beliefs on:
What constitutes evidence
Safe practice
Quality
Use of standard pathways
Importance of teamwork

Question 9

Boundary work

Answer 9

Range of activities by which professionals seek to lay claim to particular fields of knowledge and to assert their jurisdiction over particular tasks in the face of competition from other professional groups

Question 10

Interprofessional boundaries

Answer 10

Between different professions
E.g. obstetricians and midwifes

Question 11

Intraprofessional boundaries

Answer 11

Between individual healthcare practitioners and their colleagues
E.g day and night staff, senior and juniors

Question 12

As means and affect of social control

Answer 12

Critical studies
Controlling knowledge production
Dominant male values are appreciated
Profession gives definitions that have impact on society

Question 13

Controlling knowledge production

Answer 13

Professionals have the power to define and control what is true in what constitutes health, disease and treatment