Journal article
Professional identity in nursing: Why it is important in graduate education
Journal of professional nursing, v 52, pp 50-55
May 2024
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Abstract
Possessing a clear identity in nursing is a guiding principle to professional comportment. In graduate nursing education, transitioning and expanding one's professional identity requires role evolution. Nurses transitioning into the advanced professional nursing role shifts their thinking to a new level. The Conceptual Model of Professional Identity in Nursing constitutes how values and ethics, knowledge, nurse as a leader, and professional comportment are intertwined. Competency-based education requires curricular redesign. The Essentials Tool Kit aligns The Essentials with learning activities to support competency-based curriculum and assessment. The Douglass and Stager Toolkit intertwines these resources for graduate nursing educators to inform professional identity in nursing for curriculum revisions. This article aims to illustrate how faculty educate graduate nursing students in the development of professional identity using a conceptual framework to achieve competencies outlined in The Essentials (AACN, 2021).
• Evolving in an advanced nursing role necessitates a transition of professional identity.
• Graduate nursing educators need to align CBE with The Essentials to support professional identity in nursing.
• Educators must transform curriculum to facilitate the development of a strong professional comportment.
• The Douglass & Stager Tool Kit provides educators with resources to inform professional comportment.
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- Title
- Professional identity in nursing: Why it is important in graduate education
- Creators
- Brenda Douglass - Johns Hopkins UniversitySharon L. Stager - Salve Regina UniversityKathy Shaw - University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusAmy Hite - Pittsburg State UniversitySusan Solecki - Drexel University, College of Nursing and Health ProfessionsJulie Stanik-Hutt - University of IowaGillian Tufts - University of Utah
- Publication Details
- Journal of professional nursing, v 52, pp 50-55
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 6
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Nurse Practitioner Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001216580000001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85189562595
- Other Identifier
- 991021867201804721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Nursing