Professional Behaviors Flashcards
A state of being obligated, emotionally impelled.
Commitment
Strength of person’s relationship to - sense of belonging to an organization.
Organizational commitment
4 Factors of Professional Commitment
1- Belief - accept profession’s code, role, goals, values…
2- Willingness to exert personal effort for profession
3- Strong desire to maintain membership in profession
4- Pattern of behaviors congruent w/ nurses professional code of ethics.
Types of Commitment (3)
- Continuance
- Affective
- Normative
Affective Commitment
-Identifies with and involves themselves with profession
Normative Commitment
Feelings of obligation to continue in profession.
Continuance Commitment
- Aware of costs associated with leaving profession.
- Develops when consequences of leaving profession are seen as reasons to stay.
5 Stages of Commitment
1- Exploratory 2- Testing 3- Passionate 4- Quiet & Bored 5- Integrated
Stage where person explores positive aspects of profession. Excited.
(1st) Exploratory Stage
Stage where person discovers negative aspects of profession.
-Starts assessing willingness & ability to deal with negative elements.
(2nd) Testing
Stage of commitment which begins as person synthesizes both positive & negative elements from first two stages.
- Willing to commit to profession & contribute to well-being.
- Students who become involved.
(3rd) Passionate
Stage where person settles into humdrum routine - become more comfortable.
(4th) Quiet & Bored
Stage where person integrates both positive & negative elements of profession into more flexible, complex & enduring form of commitment.
-Act on commitment as matter of habit.
(5th/Final) Integrated
Inconsistency between academic world and the world of work.
Reality Shock
When does reality shock occur.
When novice nurses realize that they are not prepared for the work environment.
4 Phases of Reality shock:
- Honeymoon
- Shock or rejection
- Recovery
- Resolution
Phase that often occurs during orientation when everything in work world is as the graduate imagines.
Honeymoon Phase
Phase where new nurse encounters:
- conflict, differing way of performing skills, lack of security of an expert as a resource.
- nurse may feel fear, react by forming shell.
Shock (rejection) phase
Phase where novice nurse begins to understand the culture, experiences less anxiety… healing begins
Recovery Phase
Phase where nurse adjusts to new environment, work expectations are easily met…
Resolution Phase
Native Runaway Rutter Burned Out Compassion fatigue Loner New nurse on block
Inappropriate approaches to dealing with shock phase:
Adopts ways of least resistance and mimics other nurses
Native
Real world is too difficult, leaves profession or returns to school w/ goal to teach nursing.
Runaway
Considers nursing just a job - shows up for the paycheck.
On the job retirees
Rutter
