Professionalism In The Nursing Field

Professionalism: When thinking about professionalism
Juneice Bracely-Wesley
Missouri Valley College
NU110 Introduction to Nursing
Tonya Eddy, PhDc, RN
October 27,2013
Professionalism: When thinking about professionalism
When thinking about professionalism and professionalism in nursing there can be similar aspects between the two. When most people think about professionalism they might think of a lawyer, a doctor, or maybe a professor. Others might think of some one you have respect, responsible, honest, maintain profession boundaries, or life long learning experience. All these aspect are correct. But, professionalism and professionalism in nursing is based off many different aspects, including how you dress, carry yourself,
The five aspect that should be shown in the nursing field are: having a attitude of pride and desire to grow professionally, cheerfulness optimism and desire to learn new skills, interest in helping to solve problems of others, respect for opinion and judgment of other and respects for the rules and regulations of nursing profession. Those are the five very important attitudes that should be shown in the nursing field. This is due to the interpersonal relationship needed to deal with very sick people (David, Deena, 2010). Dealing with sick people can be a stressful event. Nurses’ deals with the same patients for a very long time therefore, they need more commitment to work with them. The attitude of a nurse will help in a successful nursing practice in such situations. The attitude that is acceptable for professional nurses is respect for the rules and regulation of nursing profession. Each profession has its own rules and regulations depending on the kind of work that is done. Nurses around the world have a specific role to play and they have to respect these rules and follow them. This will help them become successful in the long run (David, Denna,
This professional pride and desire will help them to climb the ladder to success very quickly. Cheerfulness optimism and desire to learn new skills; the nurse who wants to be successful needs to be cheerful with optimism and desire to learn new skills. As the time keeps changing, there are new skills that are necessary to do the existing work (David, Deena, 2010). This means that a nurse should always be cheerful to learn these new skills. These will help us as nurses to achieve more and become more successful (David, Denna,