Creating your professional identity | Leadership and Professional Identity | Rasmussen College System

Creating Your Professional Identity

Competency

• Determine the attributes that help form the professional nurses’ identity.
• Apply principles of professional identity and professionalism.

Scenario

As a nursing student, you have a vision of your core values and expectations as a professional nurse. In this assignment, create a plan to guide you as you form your professional identity.

Instructions

This formation will include the following:

• Describe the meaning of nursing professionalism identity
• Identify the most important professional identity characteristics/attributes
• Explain how you will adapt these characteristics/attributes in the clinical setting
• Reflect on your educational journey and describe how this shaped your professional identity.
• Create your goals for continued professional identity formation during your career as a nurse.
• Provide stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar.

Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.

Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:

Jstudent_exampleproblem_101504