Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering professionalism, trust, professional identity formation (PIF), and patient and professional advocacy based on lecture notes.

True Professional

Someone who is knowledgeable, responsible, honest, respectful, and committed to helping others, taking responsibility for their actions and continuing to learn.

A Job

Work you are trained to perform that carries responsibilities to an employer and asks: 'What am I expected to do?'

A Profession

A role society entrusts you to fulfill that carries responsibilities to patients, society, and the profession, and asks: 'What has been entrusted to me?'

Pharmacist Expanded Responsibilities

Responsibilities beyond dispensing medications, including educating patients, promoting medication safety, identifying drug interactions, providing health services, and working with other healthcare professionals to improve patient care.

Foundation of Pharmacy

Pharmacy is built on trust, which is not simply given but must be continually earned as patients entrust pharmacists with their health, safety, personal information, medications, knowledge, and life-affecting decisions.

Trust Chain Sequence

The structural progression: TRUST -> EXPECTATIONS -> RESPONSIBILITY -> ACCOUNTABILITY.

Stage 1: New Student Responsibilities

The initial stage in entrustment characterized by learning, listening, asking, and beginning.

Stage 2: Developing Student Pharmacist Responsibilities

The second stage in entrustment characterized by applying, participating, taking responsibility, educating, contributing, and speaking up.

Stage 3: APPE Student Responsibilities

The third stage in entrustment characterized by demonstrating, contributing, being accountable, applying, collaborating, and advocating.

Stage 4: Pharmacist Responsibilities

The ultimate stage in entrustment characterized by exercising judgment, serving, leading, and stewarding.

Professionalism

Trust made visible; how we demonstrate to others that we are worthy of the trust placed in us.

Manifestations of Trustworthiness

The four core visible expressions of professionalism: Competence, Integrity, Reliability, and Respect.

Pre-Existing Student Attributes

The personal foundations brought into pharmacy school: Values, Experiences, Strengths, Personality, Relationships, and Aspirations.

Professional Identity Formation (PIF)

The process of becoming a pharmacist, rather than simply learning how to practice pharmacy.

PIF Core Components

Thinking like a pharmacist, acting like a pharmacist, and feeling like a pharmacist.

PIF Identity Progression Questions

The reflective identity sequence: Who am I? -> Who am I becoming? -> Who am I as a pharmacist?

PIF Learning Cycle

The continuous identity formation loop: EXPERIENCE -> REFLECTION -> FEEDBACK -> GROWTH -> NEW EXPERIENCE.

Factors Shaping Professional Identity

Key elements that shape formation: Role Models, Faculty, Peers, Teams, Successes, Mistakes, Challenges, and Choices.

From Personality to Leadership Hierarchy

The structural cascade: PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY -> PROFESSIONALISM -> PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIOR.

Advocacy

Using your voice and actions to support something or someone entrusted to your care.

Patient Advocacy

Supporting the needs, rights, dignity, safety, and interests of patients.

Professional Advocacy

Supporting the profession and its ability to serve patients and society.

Community Advocacy Focus

Advocating for communities with a focus on health, prevention, and medication education.

Profession Advocacy Focus

Advocating for the profession with a focus on appropriate pharmacist roles and services.

Learning Environment Advocacy Focus

Advocating for one another by maintaining respectful, ethical, and supportive learning environments.