TY - JOUR
T1 - Professional identity in nursing
T2 - Why it is important in graduate education
AU - Douglass, Brenda
AU - Stager, Sharon L.
AU - Shaw, Kathy
AU - Hite, Amy
AU - Solecki, Susan
AU - Stanik-Hutt, Julie
AU - Tufts, Gillian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2024/5/1
Y1 - 2024/5/1
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Advanced nursing roles
KW - Competency-based education
KW - Graduate nursing education
KW - Professional identity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2024.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2024.03.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 38777525
AN - SCOPUS:85189562595
SN - 8755-7223
VL - 52
SP - 50
EP - 55
JO - Journal of Professional Nursing
JF - Journal of Professional Nursing
ER -