Another view on professionalism (journal article)
type of article: editorial
class that forced me to read it: PSPR
avx online? yes
useful? only in that it directed my attention to the Bruhn article, which was already in the reading list for this class
tolerated? The brevity of the editorial was such that I didn't have time to develop significant symptoms.
Feeg, V.D. (2001). Another view on professionalism. Pediatric Nursing, 27(3), 220-221.
The author makes a good plug for the importance of publishing to the development of nursing professionalism. First, though, she touches on one of nursing's favorite indoor sports: complaining about co-workers. "With the nursing shortage. . . impact(ing). . . workers' interpersonal behaviors, we're beginning to hear unpleasant stories. Some might simply call a colleague 'unprofessional' demonstrating a behavior that we know lacks in sensitivity, judgment, or courtesy" (Feeg 2001).
I would bet my next paycheck that in at best a minority of these "unpleasant stories" involving a co-worker's "unprofessional" behavior did the nurse affected simply confront the offending individual in anything approaching an adult, assertive manner. I would also wager that the story of the offending individual was offered for consideration to anyone else who would listen. This is the sort of communication style that typifies the interaction of fifth-grade girls in the schoolyard, and it has no place in the repertoire of anyone who's made it past the first lurches of adolescence. The article would have sat with me a little better if Feeg had come down on this bullshit; instead there seems to be tacit approval.
class that forced me to read it: PSPR
avx online? yes
useful? only in that it directed my attention to the Bruhn article, which was already in the reading list for this class
tolerated? The brevity of the editorial was such that I didn't have time to develop significant symptoms.
Feeg, V.D. (2001). Another view on professionalism. Pediatric Nursing, 27(3), 220-221.
The author makes a good plug for the importance of publishing to the development of nursing professionalism. First, though, she touches on one of nursing's favorite indoor sports: complaining about co-workers. "With the nursing shortage. . . impact(ing). . . workers' interpersonal behaviors, we're beginning to hear unpleasant stories. Some might simply call a colleague 'unprofessional' demonstrating a behavior that we know lacks in sensitivity, judgment, or courtesy" (Feeg 2001).
I would bet my next paycheck that in at best a minority of these "unpleasant stories" involving a co-worker's "unprofessional" behavior did the nurse affected simply confront the offending individual in anything approaching an adult, assertive manner. I would also wager that the story of the offending individual was offered for consideration to anyone else who would listen. This is the sort of communication style that typifies the interaction of fifth-grade girls in the schoolyard, and it has no place in the repertoire of anyone who's made it past the first lurches of adolescence. The article would have sat with me a little better if Feeg had come down on this bullshit; instead there seems to be tacit approval.
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