Caring in Nursing

Caring, Professional Identity, and Professional Organizations
Introduction
Nursing remains one of the careers that demand uncompromised levels of both ethical and professional ethics. The fundamental values that govern nursing include social justice, integrity, uprightness, selflessness, self-governance, and human dignity. These fundamental ethics are constant across the world, and they are aimed at maintaining a high level of humanity while practicing. Definition of different core values may vary between different cultures, religions, or countries. Therefore, it is essential to study the community of interest to apply the ethics that are considered best.
Explanation of caring in nursing
The act of caring happens every time a patient seeks the services of nursing. Patients are full of expectation that a nurse is there to support them through the healing process, and any disappointment usually causes heartbreak. Nursing is an essential element of healing, and it should always occur before curing since it contributes to the overall wellbeing of a patient (Vance, 2003).
Patience care entails the medical aspect and emotional support. The illness causes some degree of stress, and being in a bad mood may contribute to the bad health condition. Stress is a result of pain, thinking about treatment procedures, and even life after recovery. Connecting emotionally with the patients allows them to open up, and they are likely to speak out about the personal causes of their illness, which is vital for proper diagnosis. Being involved in constant communication with the patients creates mutual respect and eliminates the initial fear that patients adopt in the hospital environment (Blasdell, 2017).
Nurses are also exposed to some level of stress when handling patients. In sharing emotions and showing sympathy, a lot of emotional transfer happens, and therefore self-care among nurses is another topic worth discussing. According to the fifth provision of the American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics, nurses should extent the Same level of care they extend to patients to themselves. Nurses are expected to promote their health and to ensure they operate in a safe environment. Character integrity should be upheld through practice to facilitate career growth (Blasdell, 2017).
Dealing with patients can pose nurses a health risk considering some diseases are communicable. Maintaining a safe operating environment remains a complex discussion, and it requires professions from other disciplines. Implementation of prevention mechanisms requires the teamwork of environmental health experts and other stakeholders. Discussions should be based on the changes that occur every other day in the health industry, such as the outbreak of new diseases and the role members should play. Health problems cannot be addressed in a single sitting. A continuous brainstorming exercise should continue to discover different approaches to apply to stabilize the health system. Viewing environmental health as an interdisciplinary problem will be the first step to crying victory, and the nursing association is continuously advocating for the declaration (Blasdell, 2017).
Professional identity
Nursing professional identity is something that grows over a lifetime through learning and interacting with core nurses. The process begins when an individual decides to be a nurse and grows throughout the nursing career. Having a "nurse" title creates a sense of identity that defines a state of sharing similar experiences. Most of the growth usually happens by interacting with more experienced professions, and fellow students and the sense of belonging slowly get induced to young nurses' lives. At some levels, nursing PI is constructed through working under a practicing nurse. The course requires all students to undergo clinical placement where experienced nurses supervise them to ensure they are ready to handle patients. During this time, many knowledge transfer and hands-on skills are transferred, which is usually an important period in the nursing profession (Poorchangizi et al., 2019).
Nursing codes of ethics define what is expected in the nursing profession. It outlines the quality of professional care and professional norms expected from nurses. How well a nurse internalizes the values counts when promoting nurses, and this encourages them to adopt the values as much as possible. Having a shared sense of value standardizes the nurse's behavior, which is the only way to guarantee the profession's future. Modifying values is a process that starts at nursing schools and grows all through in nursing practice (Maginnis, 2018).
Professional organizations/associations in the nursing career
The umbrella body representing nurses' interest in different domains is the American Nurses Association (ANA). It speaks for over 3.1 million registered nurses. The organization is entrusted with the duty to advocate for nurses' rights, sell nursing as an important profession, uphold the set standards, ensure safety in the workplace, and push the implementation of policies that favor nurses and the population they serve (Matthews, 2012). 
Conclusion
A nurse who is successful in a career is expected to have a solid understanding of professional values. Values issue a guideline to offering standardized, safe, and high-quality services. Professional values are also critical in making decisions among nurses and play a big role in developing a professional identity. Undeveloped professional identity is presented in a health setting in confusion and low confidence among nurses. Confidence is a crucial element in advocating for better nursing services, and it's a virtual that all nurses should adopt to be able to fight for their rights and those of the patients they serve. Remember, nursing entails a combination of medical and emotional support, and the chances of a person with low confidence to offer emotional support are very low. More efforts ought to be put in place to develop a stronger professional identity since it plays a more significant role in building a more competent nurse.
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