How would you define professionalism in your own words? What criteria must be present for nurses to be considered a professional body? Professionalism is the ability to use your skill that you have been trained in to effectively take care of a person. Rather it be the skill of therapeutic communication or a physical skill of inserting a catheter. Skills are also noticed by the character of the person. If there is a patient that is cussing out a nurse, it wouldn’t be very professional for that nurse to do the same. The nurse would have the professionalism to take care of the situation and handle it with the desired results in mind. There are seven essential features of professional nursing that the American Nurses Association has identified
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W., & Kenner, C. (2013). Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership (Second edition.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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Why is the image of nursing important to the profession? To health care in general? The image of nursing has been portrayed many different ways throughout the years. Not too many years ago, the image of the nurse was portrayed as the doctor’s helper and the one who gave the medication. That is changing steadily and is greatly needed. Nurses hold much more depth in their position and need to project an image as such. “The nurse’ voice is typically silent, and this has demorlize nursing.” If nurses do not have this self esteem and professional pride, it can lead to serious problems such as, nurses feeling like victims, then acting like …show more content…
The four elements of malpractice include: Duty to the patient, Duty is breached, Breach of duty is foreseeable, and damages or injury to the patient. The attorney of the plaintiff has to prove that the elements exists in the case before the judge and jury agree. These malpractice suits are very expensive, and because of this doctors, nurses, and other medical staff obtain malpractice insurance. Since the saying is, “It’s not if your mess up, but when.” It’s impossible not to have this insurance. Many say that nurses are not held to the same standard that doctors are so they do not need malpractice insurance. This is not the case. Nurse make mistakes just like doctors, and many times if a doctor is being sued, the nurse along with the hospital is being sued along with
W., & Kenner, C. (2013). Professional nursing concepts: Competencies for quality leadership (Second edition.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Question 2
Why is the image of nursing important to the profession? To health care in general? The image of nursing has been portrayed many different ways throughout the years. Not too many years ago, the image of the nurse was portrayed as the doctor’s helper and the one who gave the medication. That is changing steadily and is greatly needed. Nurses hold much more depth in their position and need to project an image as such. “The nurse’ voice is typically silent, and this has demorlize nursing.” If nurses do not have this self esteem and professional pride, it can lead to serious problems such as, nurses feeling like victims, then acting like …show more content…
The four elements of malpractice include: Duty to the patient, Duty is breached, Breach of duty is foreseeable, and damages or injury to the patient. The attorney of the plaintiff has to prove that the elements exists in the case before the judge and jury agree. These malpractice suits are very expensive, and because of this doctors, nurses, and other medical staff obtain malpractice insurance. Since the saying is, “It’s not if your mess up, but when.” It’s impossible not to have this insurance. Many say that nurses are not held to the same standard that doctors are so they do not need malpractice insurance. This is not the case. Nurse make mistakes just like doctors, and many times if a doctor is being sued, the nurse along with the hospital is being sued along with