In the health care clinic under consideration, the socialization occurs formally and informally. The peers and professionals socialize in wards, cafeteria and offices. They discuss their medical and health care opinions and also share how they respond to various different situations in the clinic. I believe that this is very helpful in assuming the role of a nurse especially in the start of the career when the new nurse does not know a lot about the procedures and systems at work place.In the health care clinic under consideration, the socialization occurs formally and informally. The peers and professionals socialize in wards, cafeteria and offices. They discuss their medical and health care opinions and also share how they respond to various different situations in the clinic. I believe that this is very helpful in assuming the role of a nurse especially in the start of the career when the new nurse does not know a lot about the procedures and systems at work place.
Theory Practice
Professional socialization in Nursing
The professional socialization in nursing is the process that helps a person to adopt to the systems and norms of a profession. The process helps the individual learn those things that support the job but are not the written part of the job (Lai & Lim, 2012). In nursing too, not everything is learnt about patient care through books. There are environmental and cultural factors that are understood by socializing with other professionals in the system. For example, the response to the patients in emergency is learnt when the nurse actually interacts in the system and observes other nurses and physicians treating patients. Likewise, the punctuality and robustness is learnt by mingling with the peers.
In the health care clinic under consideration, the socialization occurs formally and informally. The peers and professionals socialize in wards, cafeteria and offices. They discuss their medical and health care opinions and also share how they respond to various different situations in the clinic. I believe that this is very helpful in assuming the role of a nurse especially in the start of the career when the new nurse does not know a lot about the procedures and systems at work place. The feminine issues and informal nursing goals are learnt through professional socialization in nursing (Butts and Rich, 2011).
The nursing industry, like many others, has gender biasness issues and thus the socialization may lead to communication of predominantly male or gender biased culture. This indicates that the professional socialization should be considered as a supporting process that helps and enhances the understanding. It should not be taken as the legal system of any healthcare system. The new entrants should socialize to learn professional values and to adapt to the culture without compromising core professional goals. It can be done by comparing company norms to standard ethical norms and values.
Question 2: Applicability of Change Theory
The nursing profession is dominated by male gender. The change theory can be helpful in the industry to bring positive changes. The change theory can adopt external or external styles. The Lippitt's Theory of change, for example, says that it is helpful to bring positive changes at work place by involving a consultant or external agent. The consultant or the external agent is introduced in the system to understand it and develop and unbiased opinion. The external agent can easily identify problems as well as the gaps that can be filled. He can offer better solutions for changing the system in cooperation with the management of the clinic.
The gender biasness for example, can be investigated. The sources of gender biasness can be that there are most of male nurses in the system or most of senior nurses are males. Thus the external agent can suggest hiring more female nurses so that there are comparable proportions of both the genders. Also the promotions should not be based on the genders. This will develop a system that is not male dominant rather believes in gender equality and enjoys gender diversity in nursing profession.
This change theory has however some weaknesses too. It changes the system externally and not internally. Thus it does not offer due consideration to the issue that what level of resistance is anticipated against the change management. It does not tell how long it can take to change the system and what will be the role of new entrants in the system. Will they be bullied or supported by the seniors etc. Therefore, the change theory should not be blindly followed without taking measures to face the agitation in the system against the freshly introduced policies (Butts and Rich, 2011). The internal support will be critical to make the changes practical.
Question 3: Applicability of role theory
In the interventions to bring change in a system, role theory can serve an effective role. The interventions need that everyone in the system should play a role in the different activities they perform (Green, 2000). A person has a role in form of education, training, practice and management. In Nursing Practice, the nurse has an individual as well as a social role. The change management should focus is efforts to ensure that every nurse understands her role and is capable to perform her based on her Nursing Education. Once the nurse qualifies for the job, she or he should not rely of the education once attained. The Nursing research should be a continuous process in the system. At the clinic, every nurse should know about the ongoing nursing research in the industry so that she does not lack knowledge and information about the contemporary nursing issues and practices. The role theory will ensure here that every nurse understands his/her part in all these aspects and to keep in touch and updated to perform the job better.
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