Professional identity: A concept analysis

Fitzgerald, Anita

doi:10.1111/nuf.12450

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“…Larger professional, institutional, and societal discursive forces about what constitutes real nursing contribute to role confusion, issues of work identity, and ultimately, de‐professionalization of PHN as a specialty (Andrews & Waerness, 2011; Fitzgerald, 2020). Professional discussions about the essence of PHN are long‐standing (Kub, Kulbok, Miner, & Merrill, 2017); as early as 1920, nurses were asking, Am I a public health nurse ?…”

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“…Such is the case in nursing which has a long history of trying to position itself as a legitimate profession (Brown, 1948). Being socialized to the nursing profession is a process through which learners acquire and adopt the substance of the role (skills, knowledge), along with associated values and beliefs deemed essential to the profession (Fitzgerald, 2020;Traynor & Buus, 2016). Part of socialization to nursing is learning that a health professional cares for individual patients (Kirpal, 2004).…”

Section: Identity Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Being a real nurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

Drevdahl

Canales

2020

Nursing Inquiry

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The Latin expression nihil sub sole novum-'there is nothing new under the sun'-applies to today's groundswell of renewed interest in the concept of population health (Neve, Hothersall, & Rodrigues, 2019). Population health is concerned with 'interrelated conditions and factors that influence the health of populations, identifies systematic variations in their patterns of occurrence, and applies the resulting knowledge to develop and implement policies and actions to improve the health and well-being of those populations' (Government of Canada, 2013). Renewed interest is evident in Canada, where a 'population health approach' is being used to reduce health inequities (Cohen et al., 2014), and in the United Kingdom (UK), where the Nursing and Midwifery Council recently revised its competencies to include population health (Lasater, Atherton, & Kyle, 2020). In Australia, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services collaborated with the University of Melbourne to increase the number of population health course offerings (Naccarella, Butterworth, & Moore, 2016), while in the United States, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2019) integrated population health concepts into its vision for nursing education. What has not been considered in exhortations to focus on population health is the role of professional or work identity and the accompanying tension created in trying to move nurse actions to the population health level. Since work identity is critical in determining the 'purpose and worth' of nursing (Willetts & Clarke, 2014, p. 165), it also may be useful in understanding nursing's uptake of population health. The analysis reported here arose from an earlier study whose purpose was to explore factors influencing public health nurses' decisions to obtain a graduate degree (Drevdahl & Canales, 2018). Data were gathered through semi-structured interviews with 30 U.S. nurses working in public health. During the interviews, study participants often discussed how they understood their role as public health nurses. Although these data

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Identity Workmentioning

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Being a real nurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

Drevdahl

Canales

2020

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“…discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting and feeling like a nurse." 2,7 Academic leaders are increasingly becoming motivated to build learning environments that actively help form students' PIN. Research findings demonstrate that a stronger sense of professional identity leads to greater satisfaction in a field 4 and that professional identity and psychological well-being are linked.…”

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The Nurse Leader’s Role:

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“…Identity formation is largely described as a process of socialization through educational (Dombeck, 2003; Hite & Godfrey, 2019; Larson et al., 2013; Moya et al., 2010; Roberts, 2000) and work experiences (Hite & Godfrey, 2019; Larson et al., 2013; Moya et al., 2010; Öhlén & Segesten, 1998; Pereira & Oliveira, 2019) both formally and informally. Shared experiences and belongingness contribute to nursing identity development (Fitzgerald, 2020; Öhlén & Segesten, 1998; Willets & Clarke, 2014). Nursing identity is seen to be influenced by public discourse (Anderson et al., 2020; Hite & Godfrey, 2019; Parker, 2005) or more generally socially mediated (Anderson et al., 2020; Dombeck, 2003; Goopy, 2005; Parker, 2005; Pereira & Oliveira, 2019; Roberts, 2000).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Towards abandoning the master’s tools: The politics of a universal nursing identity

Bell

2020

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He said it is not enough to say it will get better by and by. He said each of us has a moral obligation to stand up, speak up and speak out. When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something. Democracy is not a state. It is an act… (John Lewis 2020) Reflecting on his learning from Martin Luther King Jr., the late John Lewis (2020) reminded us through his final words that justice and fairness are not a static endpoint. Neither then, is injustice; both conditions require ongoing action to be sustained. A democratic or just experience is one where power is shared amongst the people and all people have unfettered access to the capital and institutions of a society. A truly democratic experience in healthcare would see equality in access to the range of healthcare services humans need to not only survive but also thrive. A just experience in healthcare would see equitable provision of healthcare services unequivocally committed to redressing the gap in health outcomes between the societally privileged and people with racialized or otherwise marginalized identities. Even in this remarkable moment of the global COVID-19 pandemic where healthcare workers around the world

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Professional identity: A concept analysis

Cited by 135 publications

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Being a real nurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

Being a real nurse: A secondary qualitative analysis of how public health nurses rework their work identities

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Towards abandoning the master’s tools: The politics of a universal nursing identity

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