Describe efforts to build a more professional image for the nurse and the profession.

Describe efforts to build a more professional image for the nurse and the profession.

Post your initial response to one of the two topics below.

Topic 1

The textbook and lectures discussed (attached) the professional characteristics important to nursing.

  • Describe three characteristics of professional nurses.
  • Which one characteristic would you say is the most important and why? 

Topic 2

Examine the impact that negative stereotypes have had on the nurse and the profession.

  • Describe efforts to build a more professional image for the nurse and the profession.
  • Identify actions that can be taken to address negative stereotypes in the medi