NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines professionalism as “the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or a professional person"; and it defines a profession as “a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation."

Detailed explanation-2: -The body of knowledge of the nursing discipline contains philosophies, research, theories, ethics, and aesthetics (Smith & McCarthy, 2010). Based on Carper’s definition, there are four patterns of knowing, which include empirical, ethical, personal, and aesthetic knowing (Carper, 2004).

Detailed explanation-3: -These are (first) that a profession is founded on an exclusive body of specialised knowledge achieved following a course of advanced education, training and experience, and (second) that the members of a profession observe a moral obligation to the community ahead of self-interest.