The Roy Morgan ‘Image of Professions’ survey states that the five most trusted professions include nurses, pharmacists, doctors, school teachers and engineers. These professions arguably provide the most valuable services to society and are considered to be honest and ethical. The professions included within the top five suggest that people tend to have a greater amount of trust in those who are directly caring for them. These occupations can be said to show genuine compassion and care for other people, which helps them to be perceived as honest and reliable. In addition, these occupations are conducted under strict rules and regulations. This can assist in gaining people’s trust as they know that the professionals must adhere to these strict
Such people have always required care and the public has trusted those working in the health and social care sector to carry out their duties in a professional manner - that is to say, by treating people with compassion, respect and dignity.
Dennis Radar also known as the BTK Killer was born on March 9, 1945 to William Elvin Radar and Dorothea Mae Cook he was the oldest of their four children he was born in Pittsburg Kansas he grew up in Wichita and attended Riverview School and later graduated from Wichita Heights High School, according to several reports for him as a child made some confessions that he tortured animals, he also had a sexual fetish for women’s underwear he would later start stealing panties from his victims and wearing them. Dennis Radar attended Kansas Wesleyan University from 1965-1966 then he spent four yrs in the U.S. Air Force from 1966- 1970. In 1973 he attended Butler County Community College where he earned his
Nursing is an occupation in which professionalism (or lack thereof) can have a significant effect on not only patients and their health, but the nurse’s relationships with colleagues, patients’ families and even their community. A nurse must exemplify professionalism, especially in an environment that creates increased risk for loss of life or further injury. There are many aspects that are involved with professionalism in nursing, and many expectations set up on the nurse.
This is a requirement that a person acts towards others and the public with the watchfulness, attention, caution and prudence that a reasonable person in the circumstances would use. If a person 's actions do not meet this standard of care, then their actions may be considered negligent, and any damages resulting may be claimed in a lawsuit for negligence. Professional workers owe a specific duty of care to all vulnerable people with whom they work. The standard of conduct and behaviour expected of people in their professional role is higher than for other people because of the professional training they have received and the level of responsibility they assume.
Health professionals are required to act and behave in a certain manner in accordance with their profession. Therefore specific statements, ethical guidelines, and codes of conduct are created and introduced to each health discipline to assist practitioners in providing safe and effective client care. Professional identity is the reputation and overall image an individual portrays in their discipline. These standards such as being competent, trustworthy and respectful are important factors that influence an individual's professional identity and the way the public views them. Ultimately each health profession has these rules and regulations to improve patients overall health and for each professional to have a healthy, strong relationship with
Over the decades, the field of nursing has been facing difficulty with receiving acceptance as a respectable occupation. This is because there were often certain prejudices associated with the profession (which made it hard to attract good candidates). However, in the last several years, nurses have become an integral part of any health care team. To fully understand how this took place requires examining the historical trends. This will be accomplished by focusing on: self-regulatory issues and the way social perceptions impacted career decisions. Once this takes place, is when these elements will show the challenges effecting the development and practices of the discipline. (Kitson, 1996, pp. 1647 1651)
The public expects nurses to have high standards of professional behaviour. For nurses, this involves a high degree of knowledge, suitable behaviour, well developed skills and a desire to improve their skills. A high degree of knowledge for nurses means to have gained a recognised degree and the right to practice. For example, New Zealand nurses must be registered with the Nursing Council of New Zealand. We need to be cautious about what behaviour we reveal in our professional and personal life. An example would be social networking, posting anything that may offend someone’s privacy and dignity (Social media and Electronic communication, 2002). Professional behaviour requires nurses to act in accordance with the Code of Conduct and ensure our actions are ethical, as we are responsible for the quality of health care offered to the public (Nursing Council of New Zealand, 2012). Accurate knowledge, good skills and positive attitudes are key to well-developed professional behaviour. Being open to peoples’ professional advice and learning from it, is an important part of professional behaviour (Milton, 2008).
In a highly respected profession such as nursing, professionalism is an important element to staying employed and setting one’s self apart from the rest of the applicants when competing for a potential job. By definition professionalism are the qualities and traits that describe a professional. While knowledge is crucial in any profession, according to an article published by the University of Kansas (2012), “all medical professionals must strive to retain those humanistic qualities integrity, respect, and compassion that constitute the essence of professionalism.” Whether you work in a hospital or administration these three qualities encompass the core of nursing and exemplify what it means to be a professional.
Throughout time the world’s image on Nursing has evolved rapidly. Nurses work in an extremely stressful environment and must carry out their duties in a professional manner to ensure proper procedures are followed throughout their routines. They also have a considerable amount of responsibility that comes with their career. For those reasons nurses must present themselves in a professional and structured manner at all times. The Image of Nursing describes how people in and out of the profession see nurses. Nurses must protect and continuously improve their image by fully applying themselves to their profession every day. Nurses complete rigorous course studies to obtain the ability to manage themselves and lead others towards a common
Sofia Boquiren Rev Schmitz THEO 111-06 28 April 2018 Religious Ritual and the Human Condition Jewish religion holds certain beliefs that must be strictly followed. Unlike most Christian religions, the Jewish worship on Saturday or what they called Sabbath Day. Weekly Sabbath is a day of rest observed by them and by some Christian minority such as Seventh-Day Adventists. In the bible, Sabbath commemorates the day God had rested from his work of changing the earth. This day had been established and made holy after God had seen the changes he had created.
The nursing profession is one of many portrayed by the media. In its simplest form media is how information is shared and stored. Media covers a wide range of services, advertisements, brochures, pamphlets, TV shows, films, novels, and magazines, digital, electronic, it goes on and on. Media is more accessible these days; the internet and wireless technology makes it easy for many people to access information on a wide scale. As information is shared by the media the public creates an image. This image may be right or it can be wrong, it all depends on the media’s accuracy. Nurses have been depicted in many forms over the years. These depictions can influence the public’s opinion of the profession as well as the likelihood that the profession will be considered for future students. Nurses need to take a more active role in how the profession is portrayed by the media, they need to work together to portray the profession in its best light in order to recruit and retain nurses.
Professionalism is an adherence to a set of values comprising both a formally agreed-upon code of conduct and the informal expectations of colleagues, clients and society. The key values include acting in a patient's interest, responsiveness to the health needs of society, maintaining the highest standards of excellence in the practice of medicine and in the generation and dissemination of knowledge. In addition to medical knowledge and skills, medical professionals should present psychosocial and humanistic qualities such as caring, empathy, humility and compassion, as well as social responsibility and sensitivity to people's culture and beliefs. All these qualities are expected of members of highly trained professions.
It did not require very much thought to narrow down the list of Graphic Design Disciplines. Of the twelve types of disciplines discussed, I can see myself working in the fields of Brand and Identity Design, Motion Graphics, and Advertising.
Nursing has evolved over the years and it took many years for a nurse to be recognized as a profession. Since 1991, nursing is considered to be the most trusted profession in the United States. According to the American Nurses of Association (2005), "For the past 1 years, the public has voted nurses as the most honest and ethical profession in America." Not only has nursing become a trusted career, but the values and the way nurses care for their patients has helped people see them as family.
The combination of professionalism and ethics can be equated with an extraordinary nurse because they are core components in the nursing profession and crucial to patient trust, confidence and wellbeing. Having a degree in nursing is not what makes one a professional. Professionalism is