A job that you need special skills and qualifications to do, especially one with high social status. ___ Mac Millan Dictionary Any type of work that needs special training or a particular skill, often one that is respected because it involves a high level of education. ___ Cambridge Dictionary

1. Professionalism

2. Profession
 A job that you need special skills and qualifications to
do, especially one with high social status.
___ Mac Millan Dictionary
 Any type of work that needs special training or a
particular skill, often one that is respected because it
involves a high level of education.
___ Cambridge Dictionary

3. Nursing as a profession
 Nursing is a healthcare profession that focuses on
the care of individuals and their families to help them
recover from illness and maintain optimal health and
quality of life.
 Nurses play an integral role in promoting health,
preventing illness, and providing care for all
individuals, including those who are physically or
psychologically ill or disabled.

4. Criteria for nursing, as a profession:
 Systematic body of knowledge that provides the framework for the
profession's practice.
 Commitment to providing a service that benefits individuals and the
community.
 Control of practice responsibility of the profession through standards and a
code of ethics.
 Standardized formal higher education.
 Maintenance of a unique role that recognizes autonomy, responsibility and
accountability.
 Evidence-based practice and commitment to members of the profession
through professional organizations and activities.

5. Professionalism
 Professionalism means the conduct, aims, or qualities that
characterize or mark a profession or a professional person. In simple
words professionalism refers to the standards, practices, or
motivations associated with a profession. The skill, good judgment,
and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to
do a job well.
-Merriam-Webster, n.d.
 Professionalism is commonly understood as an individual's
adherence to a set of standards, code of conduct or collection of
qualities that characterize accepted practice within a particular area
of activity.
-Universities UK et al. 2004

6. Characteristics
Of
Professionalism
Ethics
Emotional
Intelligence
Reliability Integrity
Demeanor
Appearance
&
Appropriateness
Competence
Knowledge
Accountability

7. Indicators
Of
Professionalism
Integrity
Account
able
Genuine
ness
Commun
ication
Skill
Seek
help
When
Needed
Time
Manage
ment
Groomin
g
Art of
Organiza
tion
Positive
Attitude
Team
Work
Work life
Balance

8. Challenges of professionalism
 Personal and professional identity
 Preservation of self integrity
 Deceiving patient
 IPR within team members
 Relationships with patients and society

9. Personal and Professional Identity
 Personal identity.
It refers to a sense of self that a person develops over their life.
Personal identity is a mix of how we see ourselves and how others
perceive us. Personality traits, abilities, like and dislikes, individual belief
system or moral code and all the things, that motivates a person
contribute to self-image or unique identity as a person.
 Professional identity.
It shaped according to the external environment‘s perception of the
Professional and the Professional’s self perception.
 Challenges

10. Preservation of self
integrity
 The act acting Honourably even when no one is looking is
reffered to as having integrity. In all phases of life, those with
integrity uphold moral and ethical standards.
Strategies
 Respect other’s opinion
 Address any conflict respectfully and honestly
 Modelling integrity
 Report any unethical behaviour

11. Deceiving patients
Withholding information
Falsification of records

12. IPR within team member
Challenges
 Lack of in-person interaction
 Different time schedule
 Different way of
communication
 Improper documentation
 Language barrier
Solution
 Identify your relationship need
 Develop your skill
 Focus on emotional intelligence
 Practice mindful listening
 Plan time to develop relationship
 Manage your boundaries
 Appreciate others
 Be positive
 Do not gossip

13. Relationship with patient and society
 Balance between
professionalism and
Compassion
 Therapeutic touch
 Proper behaviour
 Ensure comfort and security
 Observe and assist all the time
 Build trust
Regardless of the amount of contact,
the fundamentals of the therapeutic
relationship remain the same:
respect, sincerity, empathy, active
listening, trust, and confidentiality.
The therapeutic relationship's goals
are to assist the patient, encourage
healing, and maintain or improve
functioning.

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