Professional Identity in Nursing
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What is a critical consideration when providing care to vulnerable patients and their families?

  • Maintaining patient confidentiality
  • Efficient use of hospital resources
  • Erosion of trust due to breach of integrity (correct)
  • Providing financial support for treatments

    • Which of the following is an example of demonstrating compassion?

  • Responding to a patient's call light with genuine interest (correct)
  • Providing medical information to a family member
  • Writing a detailed patient report
  • Following up on a treatment plan

    • What is not a recommended activity for novice nurses to develop their professional identity?

  • Question medical students about nurse expectations
  • Engage in reflection after clinical encounters
  • Interact only with nurses or student nurses (correct)
  • Mimic behaviors of clinical nurses

    • Which action is beneficial for developing a professional identity in nursing?

    <p>Valuing debriefing after clinical experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term is closely associated with compassion but should not be confused with it?

    <p>Sympathy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one of the elements that constitute a sense of response along with compassion?

    <p>Caring</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which activity is essential in developing personal self-care habits for novice nurses?

    <p>Embracing opportunities for patient experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Why is checking the Code Cart by the prescribed time considered important in nursing?

    <p>To ensure patient safety and integrity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What should novice nurses prioritize to build relationships in their practice?

    <p>Valuing communication and feedback</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In the development of professional identity, why is reflection after clinical encounters important?

    <p>It allows for critical self-assessment and growth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What plays a significant role in the development of professional identity?

    <p>Real or simulated experiences and reflection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which statement best describes the process of identity formation?

    <p>It can be linear and is often related to learning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a crucial component of patient/client safety?

    <p>Reducing and moderating unsafe acts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following describes a duty to report?

    <p>An obligation to report ethical misconduct and incompetence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a primary contributor to the development of professional identity in nursing?

    <p>Simulated experiences</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following is NOT a reason for a nurse to report a health professional's practice?

    <p>They display effective communication skills.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following reflects an attribute of professional identity development?

    <p>Engaging in reflection</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can identity formation in professional practice sometimes lead to?

    <p>Deconstruction and reformation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which theory offers a framework for understanding identity formation through different statuses?

    <p>Identity statuses theory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a recommended intervention to achieve professional identity formation?

    <p>Actively adopting a professional identity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which best describes the purpose of patient safety initiatives?

    <p>Ensuring optimal patient outcomes through best practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best describes integrity in the nursing profession?

    <p>Consistently doing what one says they will do</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one legal requirement for nurses regarding impaired health professionals?

    <p>Reporting if they suspect impairment that risks public safety</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What can often trigger a crisis during identity formation in professional practice?

    <p>A lack of mentoring opportunities</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does Bandura's theory relate to professional identity development?

    <p>It emphasizes environmental influences on learning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which quality is considered fundamental to professionalism in nursing?

    <p>Integrity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which behavior must be reported by nurses under the duty to report?

    <p>Any ethical violation including sexual misconduct</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which statement best characterizes the concept of 'professional identity' in nursing?

    <p>It develops through experience and reflection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What aspect of self-care is emphasized for developing a professional identity?

    <p>Developing personal self-care habits</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which intervention is NOT associated with fostering professional identity in nursing?

    <p>Avoiding accountability for learning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the concept of professional identity primarily stem from?

    <p>Influences from characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which of the following best defines the lifelong process of career development?

    <p>Managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions towards a preferred future</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is included in the comportment aspect of professional identity?

    <p>Defined behaviors that integrate values and actions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How does positive comportment manifest in nursing practice?

    <p>Through compassionate communication and professional appearance</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a key feature of identity formation in nursing?

    <p>Understanding the transition from layperson to professional nurse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'fitness to practice' entail in the context of professional identity?

    <p>Exhibiting behaviors that align with professional conduct</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which aspect of professional identity is NOT involved in achieving positive comportment?

    <p>Personal interests and hobbies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term best describes the necessary preparation for a nursing career?

    <p>Standardized testing through national exams</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'self-reflection' refer to in the context of professional identity?

    <p>Understanding one's own behavior and values in nursing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is one common attribute of professional identity for nurses?

    <p>Adaptive communication styles with patients</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Course Information

    • Course: Professional Identity
    • University: University of Doha for Science & Technology
    • Semester: Fall 2024

    Student Learning Outcomes

    • Define and describe the concept of professional identity
    • Explain the common attributes of professional identity
    • Recognize how nurses form and adopt their professional identity throughout their nursing career
    • Examine nursing role and scope of practice

    Course Resources

    • Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing (6th Edition) by Potter, Perry, Stockert, and Hall
    • Concepts for Nursing Practice (3rd Edition) by Jean Foret Giddens

    What is Professional Identity?

    • A sense of self influenced by nursing discipline characteristics, norms, and values
    • Results in individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse
    • Important elements include career development, comportment, and identity formation

    Professional Identity: Career Development

    • A lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions
    • Aims to achieve a personally determined and evolving preferred future
    • Key components include lifelong learning, learning plans, portfolio development, and national licensing exam preparation

    Professional Identity: Comportment

    • A set of defining behaviors that integrate values and actions
    • Measurable through professional conduct, appearance, and collaborative practice
    • Positive comportment includes warmth, attentiveness to concerns, professional appearance, and clear communication
    • Negative comportment includes rushing through interactions, impatience, and neglect of hygiene

    Professional Identity: Identity Formation

    • The process of transitioning from a layperson to a professional nurse
    • Key aspects include understanding the art of nursing, qualities and skills of a nurse, exceeding regulatory competencies, self-care, and participation in professional organizations

    Attributes of Professional Identity

    • Doing
    • Being
    • Acting ethically
    • Flourishing
    • Changing identities
    • Research on professional identity formation is underdeveloped
    • Key theories include Marcia and Josselson (identity statuses)
    • Crigger and Godfrey (Stairstep model) & Bandura (Social Learning theory)

    Professional Identity: Context to Nursing and Health Care

    • Forming and fostering professional identity through various contexts
    • Interprofessional perspective on professional identity and professional identity formation
    • Interventions to achieve professional identity formation

    Professional Identity: Interventions to Achieve Professional Identity Formation

    • Hear expectations clearly
    • Value debriefing and feedback from role models
    • Engage in reflection activities
    • Actively adopt a professional identity
    • Understand responsibilities for learning and accountability
    • Build relationships with others
    • Develop personal self-care habits
    • Embrace opportunities for experiences with patients

    Professional Identity: Example 1, Integrity

    • Integrity is a fundamental character trait, essential for consistency, purpose, and building trust
    • Key examples include following through with pain medication, calling the physician, checking the code cart on time, and administering medications within the 30-minute window

    Professional Identity: Example 2, Compassion

    • Compassion is feeling another's feelings and responding with intent to help
    • Examples include taking time to speak with a troubled family member, responding to a patient's call light, comforting a colleague experiencing bereavement, and using eye contact to apologize for a mistake

    Question: Encouraging Professional Identity Formation

    • Novice nurses can interact with experienced nurses or students, mimic clinical nurse behavior, question medical students about expectations, and reflect on clinical encounters

    Question Answer: Professional Identity Formation

    • Developing professional identity is challenging
    • Engaging in activities like listening to expectations, valuing feedback, reflecting, adopting a professional identity, understanding responsibiilites, building relationships, developing self-care, and embracing patient experiences facilitates development

    The Concept of Professional Identity

    • Professional identity is a subset of personal identity

    Professional Identity: Interrelated Concepts

    • Interrelated concepts include ethics, clinical judgement, leadership, communication

    Group Activity 2

    • Discuss nursing history in Qatar/Islam
    • Define the role of a nurse
    • Analyze how the nursing profession is portrayed

    Scope of Professional Identity

    • Professional identity develops through experiences, reflections, and role modeling by colleagues
    • This is a linear, learning-related developmental process
    • Identity formation can be a crisis, and thus lead to deconstruction and reformation

    Patient/Client Safety

    • Reducing and moderating unsafe acts in the health care system
    • Using best practices to optimize patient outcomes

    Duty to Report

    • A legal and ethical duty to report incompetent or impaired practice, unethical conduct, and sexual misconduct
    • Requires nurses to intervene if they see something wrong

    References

    • Giddens, J. F. (2021). Concepts for nursing practice (3rd ed.). Toronto, Ontario: Mosby.
    • Potter, P., Perry, A. G., Stockert, P., Hall, A., Astle, B. J., & Duggleby, W. (2018). Canadian Fundamentals of Nursing (6th ed.). Toronto, Ontario: Mosby.

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    Explore the concept of professional identity as it pertains to nursing in this quiz. Understand how nurses develop their identities throughout their careers and examine the key attributes and roles involved in nursing practice. This content is based on key texts in nursing education.

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