Nursing Professional Identity

Understanding what a given profession is all about is a crucial matter for many individuals, nonetheless, the outline and all the incorporation of such professions can be well outlined but it’s very difficult to work according to its structure. With these difficulties, therefore, most individuals find themselves confusing the personal life understanding of the profession and the real or actual definition or what should be done in the profession. In this accord, therefore, a professional identity is needed to guide and ensure professionalism. This discussion is outlining the importance of regulatory standards in nursing and its importance in professional identity.

 The term professional identity has been generally outlined to be a kind of social identification with the sense of given individuals concerning their profession and more so the extent at which individuals define and outlay themselves as professional members.  The professional identity therefore generally involve what persons consider as the roles, ethical standards, values and responsibilities to be portrayed as accepted or accordance with a given profession.  In the field of nursing, professional identity has been specified to be how individuals their action as a nurse and more so it explains the values and the belief that is needed or utilizes by the nurses as guidance especially when interacting with patients and their actions.  From the observation point the moral qualification like justice, respect for humanity and autonomy are understood and examine with respect to the context of values.

Developing a concise professional identity, therefore, some aspect is being concerned and affect the process. Most of the organization seeks the efficiency and on the other hand, the professional try their best to ensure that they provide the high-quality services.  Developing professional identity in most cases is affected by the personal identity. Formation and development of professional identity start it progress when the individuals are training.  Therefore basing in the community of practice theory the professional identity in individuals has been influenced by the transition among the communities and hence causing some conflicts concerning the difference of existing on values and the expectation of different communities.  These factors, therefore, might cause the individuals or rather the professional to draw and have some boundaries concerning their profession, personal and the private aspect of their identity (Marañón & Pera, 2015).

Therefore having Australian community made up of different cultures and with a diversity of language, there has been the development of registered nursing standard practice. With these standards incorporated individual’s personal identity the importance of history and preservation of culture is portrayed concerning the health and well-being of the patients.  The practice generally showcases the understanding and the impact of colonization on the people of Australia, concerning the inequity of the health sector.

 These standards of RNS, therefore, are subjected to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.  this kind of regulation working hand in hand with NMBA standards, guidelines and codes this RNS  should be used and practised on daily dues if the nurses and their development.  Incorporating such matter and the professional identity is very essential. It should be noted that working as a nurse one incorporation of effective critical thinking should be outlined and also well and profound analysis in the to achieve well and stabilized thoughts and development and well maintenance of good and constructive relationships with all the stakeholders (Marañón & Pera, 2015).  The basic task therefore for the registered nurse standards is to ensure quality nursing in terms of their coordination and also safety nursing practices.  The practices involved in this action, therefore, a revolved assessment that is comprehensive in nature ., development of plans, its implementation and the evaluation of its outcomes.    RNs is not only responsible but also accountable for the supervision and ensuring proper delegation of nursing activities to enrolled nurses and others.

 The regulation furthermore does not restrict the direct provision of clinical care. Practices concerning the nursing activity extend to whether the nurses are paid or not so long as the nursing skills and knowledge has been utilized.  This practices spread to when nurses work directly on basis of non-clinical relationship with the clients, the management, the administration, advisory purpose, research, regulatory, development of policy   or other specific roles that in one way or another impact on safe,  efficient  administration of services  in a professional manner utilizing a basic and well profound skills.  Hence the RNS is perfectly responsible for any given activities and practices with the scop[e of nursing activity or system and in accordance with the relation of other health care professions.

The registered nurse standards for practice, therefore, is made up of seven code of standard that should be utilized and developing any personal identity any nurse should incorporate this code and practices in their day to day practices. These codes and standards are interconnected and related and to simplify this connection the following chart summarizes the relation.

One of the standards required as outlined by the Australian regulation board is thinking critically and analyses nursing practice.  Therefore to reach to reach any conclusion and making any decision the RNs utilizes different kinds of thinking strategy and best evidence available to ensure that safer and quality nursing practices are administered with the proper framework.  The standard governing the nurse’s activity t need all the qualified nurses to ensure that there thinking is based on well accesses and perfect analysis of profound evidence that is based on research finding in order to ensure that quality and safe services are given to the patients (Fagermoen, 1997).

More so nurses are required to develop their practices basing on the experience, action, knowledge, beliefs and feelings and understand how these factors affect their professionalism in order to tame them and ensure they are working in the scope of professional regulation.  Nonetheless, the codes require al the nurses to they respect all the cultures by ensuring that they respond to the role family and community when it comes to the administering health services.  As a qualified nurse, I noticed from the reading that complying with legislation, policies and regulation is a paramount exercise when analyzing and making any decision and ensure that the ethical framework is arrived at.  The regulation board also ensures that the medical practitioners such as nurses not only maintain accurate and comprehensive documentation used in assessment but also should be timely.  The code of professionalism in the field of nursing also ensure all the professional contribute to quality improvement and ensure they conduct a relevant research.

The second standard incorporated in RNS  the need to engage in therapeutic and relationship that is professional in nature. Concerning this aspect, all the registered nurses are required to have and sustain a relationship that is bounded by nature and differentiated from their personal relationships. To form a concise professional relationship nurses are needs to have effective communication that portray high standard of dignity on matters revolving the culture, values, rights and beliefs of the people of Australia (Fagermoen, 1997). Nursing furthermore revolves all around the provision of support and giving people advice and decision that showcase some optimism in their health status and keeping I mind that individuals are expert in the experience of their lives. Nursing as a profession also requires its stakeholders to show some respect for the autonomy of individuals and high legal capacity when conducting advocacy on behave of the people.  To improve the outcome of health nurses according to the regulation are an urge to utilize the power of delegation, supervision and incorporation of consultation and referrals perfectly. Professional should also advocate and nature a professional relationship with other medical practitioners and have a collaborative exercise.

The national regulatory board governing the nursing consist of standard that maintains the capability for practice. In relation to capabilities of practice as a nurse one should not only consider but also respond effectively and within effective time to the health issues of themselves and also of others.  also the professional identity of individuals must incorporate the information and the education required to enhance effective control of health matter in people. Nursing is a continuous learning process where lifelong approach should be utilized and incorporated in the profession in order to achieve development of others and that of one’s career as well.  Ro ensures a profound professional identity a nurse should accept all the responsibilities and accountability concerning their actions, decisions and behaviours on their roles and those delegated by them and also ensure that they seek and responds to the reviews of the practice and its feedbacks (Hallam, 2012).   Active engagement is also an important aspect of the nursing profession as well as identifying and promoting the integral roles practices to ensure better health services are administered.

The RNS also constructed a standard that concerns the comprehensive conducts assessments.  The standard hence requires a well-registered nurse to conduct an assessment in a holistic manner and also ensure they are in accord with the culture. When collecting information more so the professionals have to do it in a systematic and accurate manner and incorporate concise techniques in the process.  Nevertheless, a professional identity that outline teamwork is essential in the health sector as this ensure that factor that affects the human health and their wellbeing is determined and actions to deal with this factors are formulated as they assess the available resources in planning.

As a nurse one has to develop a plan, the RNS, therefore, has a standard that regulates and govern the development of plans for nursing practices.  Registered nurses are required to utilize well asses data and proper evidence in coming with any plans.  On the other hand, a plan provided should contain the objective, goals, action the outcomes or results and the time frame to be utilized as agreed by the relevant individuals.  The plan should be modified according to too relevant documents and also to ensure they meet the outcome that was agreed upon.  Nurses are also required to negotiate on how the timeframe of the execution of the plan and ensure that they effectively coordinate the resource needed effectively as planned.

Moreover, RNS have some other standards which include the provision of safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing.  The standard ensures that nurses utilize comprehensive with systematic assessment and well-established evidence to come up with a plan concerning agreed outcomes. RNs also ensure that nurses evaluate and ensure perfect motorization of progress and the expected goals and outcomes and ensure that they are a revision of the plans basing on the evaluation.

In conclusion, developing a professional identity is a crucial aspect of defining a profession, therefore, it very important to have some regulation, policies and codes to define individuals in perspectives of professional matters. These standard codes ensure that nurses differentiate the personal identity and the professional identity.

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