Professional Socialization In Nursing

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Since Nightingale established nursing as a serious and legitimate profession, many theorists have emerged to codify and define what nursing is and how nurses can best serve their patients. Today, health care setting are complex and registered nurse’s ability to perform a multitude of roles and responsibilities requires highly developed skills in decision-making, critical thinking and adherence to moral and legal standards. An addition to these skills, leadership and management abilities are considered essential for professional practice.
I understand that the various changes that influence the field require of the nurse to be knowledgeable to better serve his/her clients. I choose to increase my education so that I can gain more …show more content…

Socialization into nursing is a concept that is discussed in nursing books, colleges, and within nurses themselves. The first year of employment is the first critical for me as a new graduates. It is exciting and new but also intimating and overwhelming as well. I feel like I really depend on my senior coworkers more than ever. Learning any new role is derive from a mixture of formal and informal socialization (Black, 2014). Formal socialization involves planned experiences, such as performing physical assessments, developing nursing diagnoses, and clients teaching. Informal socialization involves lessons learned accidentally while performing while functioning as a nurse. Professional Socialization is a learning process. Another for me to take responsibility for my own Professional Socialization, I need to visualize myself as a nurse who is capable of taking patient care as far as possible in nursing. I would place myself in the formal socialization. Why is my rational for that placement? On my second week of orientation as a nurse, there was a big fire in the Naples area. Four nurses did not show up for work. One of them was supposed to work in 100 Hall, where I was to be trained. I, the nurse manager, and another nurse were the only one present. The other nurse went to work in her …show more content…

Despite many of the nurses has been there over 20 years, none of them was knowledgeable enough to replace her. They had to offer the job to someone in another facility, which aggravates me a little. From this situation, comes the motivation of preparing myself. One of my long-term goals is to be, not only one of the best at my job, knowledgeable and qualified enough to occupy any available positions, and I understand to make this possible I need to educate myself. This is one of the reasons I currently a student at South University. As I already mentioned, my other long-term goal is to get my PHD. This will require many studies, but I am motivated. I must do it. I will do it not only for myself but also for my two little girls. I believe, and I hope I am not repeating myself, parents are the best example for their children. I always tell my 10 years old that life is not getting easier. A soda was 50 cents 5 years ago. Now to drink one, she needs at least $1 and 75 cents, and by the time she turns 25, she would probably need 10 to $20 to buy one. Her only way out is education. I also explain to her that I am educating myself not only for my well-being but also for hers. She will need to do the same for her future children. Or else, she will suffer. Continuing professional education in healthcare discipline is accepted as an essential part of professional practice because of the fact that there are a rapid changes and

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