Characteristics
of a Professional Nurse
A professional nurse:
• Displays
high standards of performance and integrity in nursing practice
• Seeks
constantly to improve her/his technical and interpersonal skills through
continuing education and research
• Uses
sound judgement and discretion in dealing with patients/clients and their
relatives
• Provides
holistic care to patients, family and community
• Deals
competently with crisis situations
• Puts
what is good for professional services to patients ahead of self-interest
• Coordinates
and evaluates nursing services in cooperation with members of other health
services (collaboration and networking)
• Is
not overly concerned with the materialistic aspects of nursing
• Expects
to find satisfaction and spiritual values in their work
• Feels
responsible for the status of nursing and tries to advance and never to retard
it
• Has
inner resources to which she/he can turn to, for renewal of faith and courage
when weary and discouraged
• Is
proud of her/his profession and considers it to be at par with other
professions like medicine or law or any other vocation practised for
compensation, which at the same time contributes in its own unique way to the
welfare of humanity
