The document discusses the importance of professionalism for healthcare workers. It defines key characteristics like being on time, accepting responsibility, treating others with respect, working well with others, and having a desire to learn. It also emphasizes maintaining personal health and emotional well-being to prevent burnout. Overall, the document outlines essential habits and qualities that promote professionalism in healthcare roles.

2. • Define professional and professionalism.
• Discuss characteristics of health care workers demonstrate, promote
professionalism and explain the importance of each characteristic.
• Define the term work ethics and describe how good work habits
promote professionalism.
• Understand the importance of personal health for health care worker.
JEETRE D. TRINIDAD, RN,MAN

3. • credentials, obtained through education and
training, that enable them to become licensed or
certified to practice a certain profession.
• certificate to perform their jobs, and they may
not even need a specific educational background.
• Being a professional also means having a
professional attitude, or exhibiting
professionalism.

4. • The side of ourselves, display and communicate
outwardly how we feel about things.
• A person's attitude is apparent from things she/he
says
• How he/she behaves, and the way he/she looks.
Described in many ways and measured by any
number of standards, but simply put it and relates
specifically to your attitude toward your work.

5. Be On Time, or a little bit early. Arriving to work
on time prepared to start your duty is vital in the
health care setting.
An essential characteristic meaning that others
count on you to come to work every day, as
scheduled, and to remain there during you
entire shift( attendance is consistent).

6. • You accepts responsibility for his or her actions, and the results of
those actions
• Accepting criticism that is intended to help you improve, admit a
mistake, and work to correct the situation.
• Take your assignment seriously and make sure you follow
directions carefully.
• Demonstrate responsibility by asking for additional explanation or
clarification when necessary, seeking help with difficult tasks, and
admitting that they may not know how to perform a particular task.
• If you have not been shown how to do a procedure that you have
been asked to do, show that you are interested in learning how.
Attends and goes extra mile to complete a task with care.

7. • Always treat others with respect, both your patients or coworkers.
• The phrases "Please, thank you, and excuse me" can improve
quality of almost any interaction.
• Address people as they prefer to be addressed by their first name,
preceded by “Sir/Mr, Ma'am/Ms.”
• Being polite and having good manners are correct in any situation.
considering other feelings and beliefs shows that you truly care
about the person.
• If the person you are speaking to is a patient or significant others ,
he or she may begin to question the quality of care that is being
given.
• You are expected to accurately record vital signs and other
information about the condition of people's valuables.
• You will be trusted with information of a care and medical
condition. If you act in a way that gives your patients or folks
reasons to lose confidence in their ability to trust you, it will be very
difficult to reestablish your relationship.

8. • Making an effort to get along with your coworkers will make your work
easier and will ease burden on your coworkers as well.
• A good nurse/assistant does not wait for a coworker to ask for help; he or
she sees a need and offers a helping hand.
• You will undoubtedly have to work with people you may not especially
like, but a professional is able to put his or her personal feelings aside or
the benefit of the patients.
• That you are able to try and imagine what it would feel like to be in
another person's situation.
• There are times when coworkers, patients or residents, or the family
members of patients will really try your patience, but if you think of how
you would feel if you were in a similar situation, you may find that you are
able to understand the offending behavior better.
"Treating people with kindness is a better reflection of
professionalism than, for example, displaying superior intellect.”

9. Desire to learn
• Although you may have completed your trainings as
NURSE/Assistant, you will never stop needing to learn
new things. The field of health care is constantly
changing, and new techniques and treatments are
developed daily.
• To provide the best possible care to your patients, you
must continue to learn new way of caring for them. It is
not responsibility of your supervisor or your place of
employment to keep you up to date on new health
care issues (Technologies/Forms/Updates/News)

10. Personal Health
To keep your body in good physical
condition
1. GET ENOUGH SLEEP
2. EAT WELL-BALANCED MEALS
3. EXERCISE REGULARLY
4. DO NOT SMOKE
5.DO NOT TAKE RECREATIONAL DRUGS AND LIMIT YOUR ALCOHOL
INTAKE.
6. HAVE A ROUTINE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION

11. MAINTAINING YOUR EMOTIONAL
HEALTH
1.Caring for others is an emotionally demanding well as a need
to cut costs, many facilities are understaffed, which means that
employees are overworked.
2. Not all patients are happy, or grateful for the care they are
receiving. Many people in need of care do not feel well and, as a
result, may be difficult or hard to manage. Sometimes a person
who is ill or worried will become angry or critical and he or she
will take these feelings out on you, even though you have done
nothing wrong.
3. As a health worker, you will have to face the death of some of
your patients This can be difficult, especially in situations where
you have had a chance to develop a relationship with the patient
and hid or her family.

12. Fortunately, there are actions you can take to help keep
your emotions in check while you are on the job, and
prevent emotional "BURN-OUT":
1. Maintain your physical health.
2. Be sure to schedule time for yourself.
3. Talking professional help to manage work-related stress.
4. When a situation becomes particularly " Heated" at work, take
a physical and emotional break. Have someone relieve you and
take a walk outside to calm down.
5. Asked to be assigned to different work areas, or to different
patients or residents, occasionally.

13. TAKE A PICTURE
When you picture a health care professional,
what does he/she look like?
Is he/she hair unkempt?
Are her/his shoes dirty?
The health care worker you picture out is neat
and clean, with unwrinkled uniform and clean
shoes.
A watch with second hand is an essential part
of health worker's uniform, but bracelets,
necklaces, rings, and dangling earrings are
not.