SESSION 1-PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY

Florence Nightingale

Founder of modern nursing

Professional identity

as a sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE

Professional identity is a subset of personal identity

Career Development

Lifelong process of managing learning, work, leisure. and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future.

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

Identity formation

The process of gaining an understanding about how an individual transition from a layperson to a nursing student to a professional nurse.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE

Professional identity and professional identity formation are replacing professional role and professionalism

1. Values and Ethics

2. Nurse as Leader

3. Knowledge

4. Professional comportment

(Very loving knowing cats) = ATTRIBUTES/PILLARS

(values, leader, knowledge, comportment)

Attributes of Professional Identity

Identity diffusion

According to Marcia’s Identity Status theory, this is the lack of interest in commitment or exploration

Identity foreclosure

According to Marcia’s Identity Status theory, this is when the person commits because other tells to. The person keeps talking about changing those people around them but not changing personally.

Identity moratorium

According to Marcia’s Identity Status theory, this is when the person has high exploration but low commitment

Identity achieved

According to Marcia’s Identity Status theory, the person is reasonably self-aware, has a sense of self and can manage overwhelming anxiety.

• Attention

• Why?

  • Notice the behavior

  • stimuli

  • focus

Which step of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory is when a nursing student watches a senior nurse insert an IV?

• Retention

• Why?

  • Remember what u saw

  • Rehearse

  • Encode

Which step of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory is when you recall each step of the step of the IV insertion you saw?

Motor Reproduction

Which step of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory is when you try to insert the IV yourself in the lab?

Motivation

Which step of Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory is when you are motivated because you want to be more skillful so you reinforce?

FALSE

It develops over time through education, clinical experiences, reflection, and role modeling by mentors and peers.

TRUE OR FALSE

Professional identity is developed instantly after reading a book and does not develop over time.

TRUE

TRUE OR FALSE

Theories like Marcia’s Identity Status and the Stairstep Model explain how nurses form and evolve their professional identity throughout their careers

Forming stage

stage of professional identity where the lay person is introduced to the profession

Fostering stage

Stage of professional identity where when the nurse has initial knowledge about professional identity and faces the real-life challenges of nursing practice after initial nursing licensure

1. Clinical judgement

2. Leadership

3. Ethics

4. Communication

(C.L.E.C. = interrelated)

The concept of professional identity is interrelated with four professional nursing and healthcare concepts which are?