While professional identity is vital for every nurse to nurture, we also need administrators and policymakers to recognize nurses and acknowledge their important role in our society.

Professional identity has become an increasingly important concept in nursing (Page and Lawrence, 1992). Fagermoen (1997) strongly associated it with nurses’ self-esteem, defining professional ...

The OU Health Nursing Professional Practice Model was developed based on the Joanne Duffy Quality Caring Model, so that the organization could take caring behaviors and integrate them into OU ...

Plus, as the authors of a 2021 study in Nurse Education in Practice noted, maturity in thinking and experience will continue to drive a nurse’s professional identity over time.

The survey showed that students developed a sense of professional identity as well as personal and professional relationships with their peers. discipline specific induction is effective in building ...