Professionalism

Running head: PROFESSIONALSIM
PROFESSIOANLISM
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1PROFESSIONALISM
Professionalism is defined as an attribute, which has to encompass by any working
professionals to excel in their respective fields. A professional is a person who works under
any profession to earn their cost of living and expense and in order to excel in their work, a
professional has to the best among others by taking up the attributes of professionalism
(Carpenter 2018). The profession could be in any work sector like health, IT, educational
sectors and many more. In the profession of nursing career, a high degree of professionalism
is required, as the nurses have to deal with the life of a patient by taking proper care of their
health and well-being. Professionalism describes the high standard of training and education,
which will prepare the people in their respective profession to develop supreme skills and
knowledge required to achieve excellence in their profession. Professionalism is critically
important for nurses, as they have to deal with the life of patients and design a proper nursing
care plan, which will be followed by the patient to overcome their bad health condition (Cho
and Kim 2014). Hence, professionalism can be defined as a behavioural practice to achieve
harmony. A set of attributes is required by the employers or workers to achieve
professionalism. Specialized knowledge, morality and integrity, competency, self-regulation,
self-presentation and accountability are the attributes of professionalism, and the workers
must focus on this attributes to improve their degree of professionalism (Aydin, Sehiralti and
Akpinar 2017). Professionalism to me as a student will be defined as the set of qualities, aims
and conduct, which characterize the mark of a professional person. I am a nursing student and
according to my profession, the ethical standard is required with the great standard of practice
for professionalism. Professional training and approaches for different code of conduct is
provided to the workers or employees during the initial phase of their work to achieve a high
level of professionalism. In my profession, it is very important to achieve a high degree of
professionalism, as it would enhance the level of practice and expertise in my career by
helping me to attain all the attributes of being a professional or specialized nurse.
Nursing involves personal contact with the patient’s care and services, which requires
ethical responsibilities as the major nursing value. The main characteristics exhibited by a
profession includes the best use of research and theory in practice, acquiring the standards of
practice including professional behaviours, commitment and independent function of the
professional (Walker, Clendon and Walton 2015). The characteristic that should be exhibited
by the professional nurse includes commitment, honesty and loyalty, assertiveness,
compassion, tolerance, punctuality, creativity, confidence and self-esteem, empathy,