For me to be apart of a self-regulated profession means that the voices of my profession are heard and accepted as a legitimate opinion from a source of education, experience and passion for the profession of nursing. To be a student working towards being accepted into this field I feel that the end goal of becoming a nurse is only a small benefit to becoming part of this coalition of workers who have accepted that their job is to provide the foundation of the Nursing Metaparadigm to all patients under their care. To be in this self-regulated profession means our opinions matter and are addressed, also we delegate how we run our operations as a collective body working as a team with other professions in the health care setting to accomplish
