Theoretical Frameworks and Socialization into Nursing

Theoretical Frameworks and Socialization into Nursing

Theoretical Frameworks and Socialization into Nursing

Socialization into Nursing
Please post a discussion on:
1. Your socialization into nursing, both formal and informal.
2. What did you learn from formal and informal socialization?
3. What are the pros and cons of distance learning and socialization? (your opinion)

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Nursing practice act of the state – constitutes the legal definition of nursing in a particular state

North Carolina’s Nursing Practice Act, most recently revised in 2009, contains particularly specific language defining nursing (North Carolina Board of Nursing, 2009):

“Nursing” is a dynamic discipline which includes the assessing, caring, counseling, teaching, referring and implementing of prescribed treatment in the maintenance of health, prevention and management of illness, injury, disability or the achievement of a dignified death. It is ministering to, assisting, and sustained, vigilant, and continuous care of those acutely or chronically ill; supervising patients during convalescence and rehabilitation; the supportive and restorative care given to maintain the optimum health level of individuals, groups, and communities; the supervision, teaching, and evaluation of those who perform or are preparing to perform these functions; and the administration of nursing programs and nursing services.

The nursing practice act sounds like familiar nursing language.

State nurses associations and boards of nursing actively assist legislators in drafting laws that accurately reflect the nature and scope of nursing.

Being a student of nursing is the first of many steps in socializing you into professional practice: the goal of socialization is the development of professionalism. The goal of your nursing education is not simply teaching you the tasks of nursing, although they are important elements of your practice. The overriding goal of your education is to teach you to think like a nurse, to see the world of health care through the lens of nursing, and to respond to your educational and clinical experiences with the development of professionalism.

This process requires that students internalize, or take in, new knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, values, and ethical standards and make these a part of their own professional identity. For the RN returning to school for a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degree, a modification of an already-formed professional identity occurs. This process of internalization and development or modification of an occupational identity is known as professional socialization; it begins during the period when students are in formal nursing programs and continues as they practice in the “real world.” See PPT Below

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