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Professional Identity Fall 2024 www.udst.edu.qa STUDENTS LEARNING OUTCOME  Define and describe the concept of professional identity.  Explaining the common attributes of professional identity.  Recognize how nurses form and adopts professional identit...

Professional Identity Fall 2024 www.udst.edu.qa STUDENTS LEARNING OUTCOME  Define and describe the concept of professional identity.  Explaining the common attributes of professional identity.  Recognize how nurses form and adopts professional identity during their nursing career.  Examine nursing role and scope of practice Course Syllabus Resources  What is Professional Identity? A sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline resulting in individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse (Giddens, 2017, p.379) Career development Comportment Identity formation Professional Identity: Career development Lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future (CDAA, 2014; Gregory et al., 2015, p. 119). Learning National Lifelong plans licensing learning Portfolio exam development preparation Professional Identity: Comportment Includes a set of defining behaviors that consistently integrates values and actions and may be measured in the form of professional conduct, appearance, and collaborative practice of nurses (Clickner & Shirey, 2013, p. 3) Professional Self- Fitness to image and reflection/ practice presence awareness  Professional Identity: Comportment Healthcare and Nursing: Positive Comportment: A nurse who greets patients warmly, listens attentively to their concerns, maintains a neat and professional appearance, and communicates clearly and compassionately. Negative Comportment: A healthcare provider who rushes through patient interactions, shows impatience, or neglects to maintain proper hygiene or professional attire. Professional Identity: Identity formation The process of gaining an understanding about how an individual transition from a layperson to a nursing student to a professional nurse. Throughout the course, we will discuss: What is a practical nurse / The art of nursing Qualities and skills of a nurse Beyond nursing regulatory competencies Self-care Professional organizations (local, national, international) Professional Identity: Identity formation Professional identity develops through real or simulated experiences, reflection, and role modeling by colleagues. Attributes of professional identity Acting Flourishin Changing Doing Being ethically g identities Professional Identity: Theoretical links  Research on professional identity formation is underdeveloped  Contributing theories:  Marcia and Josselson—Identity manifests through four identity statuses(adolescence) Identity diffusion Foreclosure Moratorium Identity achieved  Crigger and Godfrey—Stairstep model  Bandura—Social learning theory Professional Identity: Context to Nursing and Health Care Interprofessiona l perspective on Interventions to Forming and professional achieve fostering identity and professional professional professional identity identity identity formation formation “The best professional nurses.” What has been supportive? What has been most challenging?  Professional Identity: Interventions to achieve professional identity formation Hear expectations clearly Value debriefing and feedback from role models Engage in reflection Actively adopt a professional identity Understand your own responsibilities for learning and be accountable for them Build relationships with those around you Develop personal self-care habits Embrace any opportunity for experiences with patients Professional Identity: Example 1, Integrity Considered a fundamental character trait, integrity is evident in nearly every nursing action. If one has integrity, she does what she says she will do and acts with consistency and purpose. Integrity is often the basis for trust—for families and patients and for coworkers. A breach of integrity can erode one’s trust in another, making this exemplar a critical consideration when providing care to vulnerable patients and their families. Examples: Following through with pain medication Calling the physician when the patient asks you to Checking the Code Cart by the prescribed time Giving medications within the 30-min window  Professional Identity: Example 2, Compassion Not to be confused with sympathy or empathy, compassion is feeling what another is feeling and responding to it with the intent of doing something to help.38 Compassion is akin to caring, although they are difficult to separate in concept analysis. Caring and the ethic of care are intricately intertwined with the notion of compassion, and together they constitute a sense of response and accompanying action with those in need. Examples: Taking time to talk with a troubled family member Responding to a patient’s call light with genuine interest Comforting a colleague who has just had a death in his or her family Using eye contact to apologize for a misstep with a colleague Question What activities can novice nurses engage in to encourage professional identity formation? 1. Interact with nurses or student nurses only 2. Mimic behaviors observed in clinical nurses 3. Question medical students regarding expectations of nurses 4. Engage in reflection activities following clinical encounters Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 15 Question Answer Answer: 4 Developing professional identity is challenging, but engaging in activities such as listening carefully to expectations, valuing debriefing and feedback from role models, engaging in reflection, actively adopting a professional identity, understanding one’s own responsibilities for learning and being a accountable for them, building relationships, developing personal self- care habits, and embracing opportunities for experiences with patients facilitates professional identity development. Copyright © 2021, Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 16 The concept of PI as a subset of identity and personal identity Giddens, 2019, Figure 37.1 Professional Identity: Interrelated Concepts Group Activity 2 In groups, please discuss the following: 1. What do you know about nursing history in general and in Qatar/Islam? 2. What do nurses do? 3. How the profession of nursing is portrayed? Scope Professional identity develops through real or simulated experiences, reflection, and role modeling by colleagues Process is a linear, learning-related developmental process Identity formation can be a crisis, leading to deconstruction and reformation Patient/Client safety The pursuit of the reduction and moderation of unsafe acts within the health care system, & The use of best practices shown to lead to optimal patient outcomes. (Canadian Patient Safety Institute. 2017). Duty to report A legal and ethical duty to report incompetent or impaired practice or unethical conduct of regulated health professionals. Countries or territories have legislation setting out the duty for nurses to report situations in which there is a good reason to believe a health professional's practice is impaired or incompetent and may pose a significant risk to the public. The duty to report also requires nurses to report any sexual misconduct of a health professional. (British Columbia College of Nursing Professionals. 2019) (College of Nurses of Ontario. 2019)  References Giddens, J.F. (2021). Concepts for nursing practice (3nd 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.