Who Are We and Which Profession Do We Belong?

WHO ARE WE AND WHICH PROFESSION DO WE BELONG?
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How is the nursing profession different than the medical profession?
As Mason (2003) writes, nursing and medical care are both geared at increasing patient care. However, while the medical profession seeks to classify humans into various categories of for medical diagnosis then attempt a cure by providing pills, radiation or surgery, nursing as a profession has established itself as an entity that employs a holistic approach that seeks to care for fellow human beings in response to conditions, potential or actual, in a patterned and systematic manner.
How is the medical model of care different than the nursing process?
Nursing has developed its own terminologies and procedures in the process despite having adopted some medical model’s basic categories as Barnum & Kerfoot (1995) write. In order to aid in setting the tone of care nurses carry out their work on the basis of nursing. Nurses consider a more humanistic approach during care when planning, intervening and applying science. Caring, which is the central pillar of nursing as stated by Leininger (1988), and dominant domain of the practice, has made nursing the most trusted profession in the United States in many surveys. In the medical model of care the physician gathers information for the purposes of diagnosing the human illness (Hegner, et al. 2009).
Why is it important to remember which profession we are in?
Some scholars have suggested that many nursing students do not always identify with their job as a strong professional identity (Callara, 2008). When nurses start developing the unqualified understanding that we are nurses and we practice within the profession of nursing then nursing as a profession and as a care shall continue prosper in the ever demanding and dynamic society resulting to positive outcomes from out patients. We must take a leadership role in identifying with our profession and developing a passion so that other professionals such medical practitioners would not come and dictate to us.
d. What does this mean? “If we as nurses do not stand up and take a leadership position on this very issue, others—outside of nursing will do it for us.” Be specific and give examples of what could happen.
Daly (2005) writes that among the many challenges facing the nursing profession today the major one is the dominance from the medical profession. By challenging fellow nurses to stand up and take a leadership position in every issue the writer here is asking the nurses to avoid being engulfed in a hierarchical stand off by their medical colleagues? In order to stop being maligned by the other profession we need to strongly identify w...