...Professional Identity and Stewardship: Peer Review A professional identity is a method of qualities, and values one has about self in relationship to the professional role, that is fundamental for professional culture assimilation (Slay & Smith, 2011). In this paper, there will be a summary of an interview conducted with a peer named Ms. S, which provide an understanding from her responses to the four questions related to her particular opinions concerning, professional identity and stewardship. Also, it will give a detail about her role, as a registered nurse (RN), how she defines leadership and professional, and as well as how that converts into and influences her nursing career and practice. Her Role It was a pleasure to interview Ms. S....
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...PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND STEWARDSHIP: Peer interview Grand Canyon University AMP-450V: Leadership and Vocation December 13, 2015 This paper will paraphrase an interview conducted with Ally Hobert hereafter to be known as A. Hobert, and provide insight her responses to questions related to her personal perceptions regarding, professional identity and stewardship. I had the pleasure of interviewing A. Hobert, a floor nurse on a medical surgical unit specializing on neurological patients within a hospital. The interview was conducted via phone and was conducted in a relatively short amount of time, less than 10 minutes, and was comprised of only four questions. This author felt, although it was short, the interview was able to accurately portray A. Hobert’s role as a registered nurse (RN) in the healthcare field. What leadership and professional means to her and how that translates into, and affects, her nursing practice and career. Role A. Hobert primary role as a registered nurse within her facility is to provide safe, effective patient care. Her duties include providing patients with; medication administration, education, active listening method, assistance with or conducting patient’s activities of daily living (ADL’s). A portion of her duty as an RN collaborating with different team members including physicians, speech, physical and occupational therapy. As a nurse I also coach and educate nurse techs and work alongside them as they assist in feeding, bathing,...
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...Interaction is a key to communicate with others. We all in some point lack some skills for effective communication. We need to interact with others in schools, business meetings, with relatives during family get together. (Day, 1990) As per my first assessment I got very good feedback in my communication simulation when I played the role of a nurse which gave me motivation and increased my level of confidence. But after recording my ten days interaction, I realized that I need bit more improvement on my communication skills to become a good nurse. Interactions In my Professional Identity class, we had to do some case studies and give our opinions. For most of the case studies we need to be in group and make discussions on scenarios given by our Tutor. We were eight people in our group. Then tutor came and group discussion starts everyone starts giving their opinion and...
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...continuum that occurs during the professional socialization process. Antecedents of nursing professionalization are identified and classified in the following five groups: Demographic factors, factors related to the experience, training-related factors, factors related to the position, and value factors. 1. Demographic Age is one of the effective factors on nursing professionalization, identified in the studies. Studies have also shown that ethnic differences can have an impact on professional values. Gender differences are also the other factors...
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...You have to learn how to form junior Enlisted Soldiers, into Non-Commissioned Officers that can lead effectively. In our current generation, we sometimes find it hard to connect with Soldiers, when most are joining for education benefits and incentives. As leaders we have to make it a priority to invest ourselves by mentoring our Soldiers. Professional Leaders have to find the area of balance, where there is still respect in the ranks. Getting a Soldier to love their job is something that will come with time, and is essential to future leadership. Professionals have their own expert knowledge and practices, and are able to apply it to an external situation. The persona of being a Soldier is something that needs be seen as a disciplined, and a respectful leader. This will need to be learned, earned, and passed for many years to keep the balance of Profession of Arms. The culture of the Professional Army is not hard to understand. Grasping the concept may take time, but is the distinction between you and a civilian. Growing up everyone is raised differently, with their own beliefs. The armed forces embraces diversity, which in return shapes the climate of the...
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...Historically very few professions were given the status of being a professional. Those who were in the profession of law and medicine were perceived to be ‘elite’, receiving professional status. This was given due to the structure and depth of their specialised training and high level qualification. The knowledge gained and the ethical standards of those professionals in their practice. They were governed by professional bodies, adhering to high values and having professional autonomy. These professionals were held in high esteem by society as possessing specialised knowledge and skills, who were equipped to apply this knowledge and implement their skills in the interest of others. The concept of professionalism and having status of being a professional within the early year’s workforce has been a contentious issue. Early year workers were one of the many professions not recognised by society as being professional. Some say it is due to the lack of value society in general placed on the quality and standard of qualification they held in comparison to that of other professions working within early year’s settings; such as teachers or speech and language therapists who held degree led qualifications. Early year workers skills and knowledge were also undervalued which reflected in lower levels of pay with no prospect of moving up the career ladder. It could be said that low pay relates to poor quality of service, while others say it indicates the status of the job. Society portrayed...
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...There are numerous interpretations of the term ‘professional’ in education, and its affect on those affiliated with it as it can have many ramifications in the contexts of ‘professional’ being linked with quality teaching.This critical essay written by Jenny Johnston discusses differing ideas of professionalism in educational discourse, summarises and critically analyses a doctoral research project which highlights the complexities of educational change, along with bringing to light the pure lack of evidence of the link between professionalism and quality education, while discussing the impact upon teachers. There is no one definition for the term ‘professional’, nor one idea about the professionalism in education. Johnston uses the differing ideas of multiple authors to highlight this, along with the differing levels of ideas about how easily teacher quality can be improved through professionalisation. To begin, Johnston explains Sachs’ (2011) view that professionalism and its definition has been a struggle between union leaders, bureaucrats, and academics. However, Johnston notes that teacher’s voices have been invalidated as Sachs omitted teacher involvement in this process. Continuing from this, the perspective that professional...
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...Andre is a 19-year-old African American male who comes to you for crisis counseling. He grew up in an urban ghetto and had some gang affiliations when he was in high school. He dropped out his junior year and sold drugs for the gang for a year. Three months ago, he got clean and enrolled in a GED program. He is trying to find his identity, and he is coming to terms with the fact that he is gay. Think about your own attitudes, beliefs, knowledge, and skills surrounding this situation. First, discuss why it is important to be aware of your own attitudes and beliefs when working with a client like Andre. Then answer the following questions: When working with a client like Andre, It is important that I be aware of my attitudes and beliefs, so as not to impose my values and beliefs on him. By being cognizant of my beliefs I will avoid being judgmental of clients like Andre and focus on the needs of each client. According to Murphy and Dillon (2010) "professionals need to be flexible in their strategies so their work is effective and congruent with their client’s values." How would using your cultural competence skills assist you in being effective in your work with Andre? In working with Andre, I would utilize my cultural competence to help me be effective in working with him. I would communicate with Andre by using reflecting listening. I would commend Andre for breaking away from the forces that were detrimental to him. I would highlight his strengths and discuss with him...
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...care for the benefit of service users”. The two day IP conference (2011), was a great opportunity to meet different professionals and agencies from different areas of health and social care profession and share their views and understanding on IP working and IP learning. The Centre for Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) has defined IPE as “Interprofessional Education occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care" (CAIPE, 2002). CAIPE uses the term "Interprofessional education" (IPE) to include all such learning in academic and work based settings before and after qualification, adopting an inclusive view of "professional". Based on the key themes, we discussed how Interprofessional collaboration can provide best possible care to the service users and analyse where the services are lacking. Through group discussions, key note addresses and seminars, I was able to learn about the communication issues between the health and social care professionals, contrasting professional perspectives and values, ethics within teams and stereotyping, power imbalances and team processes ( Fletcher, 2008). Improving the quality of communication is now a key priority for health and social care (DoH, 2008). Staffs at all levels are expected to work in partnership with multi-professionals and agencies. Service users expect, and demand, greater equality in service provision. The effective communication of...
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...increased use of social media, combined with the ease of finding information online, can blur personal and work identities, posing new considerations for professionalism in the information age. A professional approach is imperative in this digital age in order to maintain confidentiality, honesty, and trust in any profession. Although the ability of professionals to use online social networks, blogs, and media sites for personal and professional reasons should be preserved, a proactive approach is recommended that includes actively managing one's online presence and making informed choices about disclosure. The development of a "dual-citizenship" approach to online social media that separates public and private personae would allow professionals to both leverage networks for professional connections and maintain privacy in other aspects. The things we post on our personal accounts can have major consequences in our professional lives. Sometimes, talking about your work experiences on your personal accounts can get you fired, even if you are relating them in a humorous way. Medical professionals need to be more cautious and create an online professional presence and avoid potential negative impact on their patients, institution, as well as their careers. Perhaps to maintain appropriate professional boundaries physicians should consider separating personal and professional content online. Social media has influenced how we define professionalism in both positive and negative ways...
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...Mandated reporters are certain individuals that have professional experience in working and treating children who suffers from neglect and abuse. They are obliged by law to report abuse cases that affects the child on a regular basis physically and mentally. Some mandated reporters include school authorities, physicians, psychologists, and social workers. In most child abuse cases, police investigators have difficulty getting the victim to open up to them because they are not comfortable opening up to a stranger about their personal affairs. However, a mandated reporter can assist in the investigation by connecting with the child on an emotional level. It would be easier for a mandated reporter to conduct an interview because the child will...
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...health important to your role as a human service professional? Which of the five characteristics listed in the text for human service professionals do you think is most important? Explain why. Why is investing in mental health important to your role as a human service professional? I strongly believe that investigating and understanding mental health is a must to a human service professional. Because before working on a situation we must know the actual situation. We should not work on guess. To give the proper help to the clients it is important to know their history and mentality. They could have any side which need special care such as endeavouring suicide. A service professional should give the best help and to do this they need to all about client as far as possible. They should ask their clients about their different side such as diagnosis, medications and so on. A human service professional must know about their client’s family, relatives, friends, background, community, culture by asking questions. These will help to make the client successful. Any professional should look try to get facts to ensure success. Getting facts need some techniques and skill. Professional needs to know the way of asking right questions. Questions should be such that they will be time affective and provide necessary information. The most challenging part is that every human are different from others. A human service professional needs to interact with different types of people...
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...the professional identity The novel presents Stevens as having subsumed his personal identity within his professional identity. Consider the following extracts and determine how they serve to present Steven’ views about identity to us. Read the following extracts from the Prologue. Consider how Stevens views his errors- are the errors he has made in his life only attributable to a faulty staff plan? Note how he brings up Miss Kenton- what rationale does he give for seeking her out- personal or professional? As so often occurs in these situations, I had become blind to the obvious- that is until pondering over the implications of Miss Kenton’s letter finally opened my eyes to the simplest truth: that these small errors of recent months have derived from nothing more sinister than a faulty staff plan. So it was in this instance; that is to say, my receiving the letter from Miss Kenton, containing as it did, along with its long, rather unrevealing passages, an unmistakable nostalgia for Darlington Hall, and- I am quite sure of this- distinct hints of her desire to return here, obliged me to see my staff plan afresh. Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here; that it was, in fact, this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles. Clothing, identity, and dignity Consider Stevens’ deliberations about his attire- what does his choice of clothing seem to imply about his identity? He...
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...The Identity of Hall Identity is what makes a person who they are and aids in distinguishing who that person is as a character. Rob Hall has a very distinct identity. He is a very well known to many professional and ammature climbers. Rob is very gratified, self confident, laid back, and relentless; these factors make up his identity. One of the factors that shapes Rob Hall’s identity is fulfillment. In the book it tells the reader that he has summited Mt. Everest multiple times and Rob boasts about it multiple times in multiple chapters. This arrogance may get in the way of the safety of the team. Another factor is self confidence. This is a factor because of his gratification, he is cocky about his success on Everest. This cockyness...
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...Almost every person in their life have experienced some type of identity problems. Identity problems being commonly associated with growing up. Children growing up might be asking themselves, “Do we really know who we are?”. In the case of the book Ready Player One and the movie The Matrix, they have different perspectives upon the subject. Although different in principle they both bring a sense that we know our identity since we build it up ourselves and from other influences in our lives. Within the book of Ready Player One, identity has always been a blur. People who escape into OASIS can be anyone or anything they wanted. From six foot models to walking demons, appearance is at the whim of the user. Which is just emphasized with the big reveal of Aech, who was described as a fit caucasian man in OASIS, was really an African-American woman named Helen. Being completely different than what was represented in the OASIS. Even so, the author described Aech/Helen in the real world to be practically the same in the game. (-- removed HTML --) In that case, Helen made her own physical identity that she can...
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