1500word limit, not including references This assignment usesAPA 7th referencing Describe how as a nursing student you will develop a professional identity and discuss how your professional identity...

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Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Why Professional Identity and Personal Values are Important    3
Role of Professional Identity    4
Role of Personal Values    5
Methods of Developing Professional Identities as Nursing Student    6
Impact of Personal Values on Professional Identities    7
Conclusion    7
References    9
Introduction
Professional identity can be termed as the way a person perceives himself or herself in relation to a certain profession and his or her membership with the profession. Professional identity has a great impact on one's career and path of life. The beliefs of one person along with his or her attitudes and values give rise to professional identity through which the individuals can define themselves in their respective fields of professional life. The motives of a person with regards to a certain professional have deep involvement with his or her professional identity. Professional identity is basically the perception of oneself in one's field of profession. This term has gained a lot of importance in the recent years as it has been found that professional identity can have a profound effect on one's career and decisions that can affect the job being done greatly. The term called professional identity might not be static or constant as it can be fluidic in nature which may change with time but its presence in one's life impacts the career and job greatly.
 Why Professional Identity and Personal Values are Important
Personal values refer to the moral and ethical norms that are followed by a person in order to maintain the conscience and the sense of wrongdoing and right-doing in profession. These values are subjective to one-self and may vary from person to person but the key factors of honesty, integrity, hard work and many others remain constant. For a nurse, both professional identity and personal value have a great impact on her career. Credential system exists in Profession. Occupation does not have such a system. Nursing is called a profession as it consists of some features which characterize a Profession-
· Autonomy
· A Great Public Acceptance
· Own Research work
Professional values and ethics can be subjective to the organization a person is working in and may have differences from one organization to another but personal values are devoid of any dependency on organizations and are completely based on a person's conscience and beliefs of what is right and what is wrong. Nursing has been called the oldest of the arts and youngest of the profession. The word Nursing is derived from the Latin word "Nutrire" which means to nourish”. The same holds true for nurses as well who can have a separate set of professional identities and a separate set of personal values which when put together, frame the nurse completely and have a profound effect on her career (Kluijtmans, Haan, Akkerman & Tartwijk, 2017).
Role of Professional Identity
In case of nurses, professional identity plays a great role as nurses provide quality service in the healthcare sector and are responsible for the well being of a great number of people and their service is greatly influenced by the professional identity. As stated by Jackson (2017), in the health care sector the professional identity of the nurses can act as a bridge that meets the gap between a nurse’s personal interest and the needs of the society on the end of the patients. It is true that the profession of nursing is one that demands immense sacrifice on the part of the nurse and hence, a nurse’s ability to provide for those demands of the profession is highly called for. It cannot be denied that professionalism when applied in the field of healthcare gives rise to far...