Professional Identity And Stewardship

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Professional Identity and Stewardship
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Professional Identity and Stewardship
The peer chosen for this interview is a nurse working in the emergency department.
Roles and responsibilities as a healthcare team member-
The interview has been conducted to assess her professionalism and sense of
responsibilities as a healthcare team member. She was asked about her roles and responsibilities
as a healthcare member and how she perceives them. On asking her about her role as a healthcare
team member, she replied that being an emergency department nurse, she needs to manage
emergency situations, prioritize care, and assess the patient’s conditions for further
complications and many more. It is the responsibility of the nurse working in such settings to
collect all the subjective and objective data of the patients and also conduct assessments required
and interpret what their vitals indicate. Every nurses working in such setting possess adequate
skill set and key competencies to understand a patient’s condition comprehensively and develop
intervention strategies suitable for the patient addressing the health concerns. Working in
emergency department requires adequate knowledge, experience, skills and clinical expertise and
every nurses working in emergency situations (Innes et al., 2017).
Professionalism
According to the nurse, professionalism is central to nursing and has an influence on the
quality of care delivered by the nurses. Professionalism is exhibited in practice through the
application of knowledge, skills, and the ability to carry out standard activities like leadership,
self-discipline, professional commitment and social values. Professionalism shapes up nursing
practice and ensures that every nurses besides providing care to the patients, are able to instruct
and guide and have the ability working at managerial positions (Carpenter, 2018). In order for