Engelsk titel: Profession or instruction?
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Austgard KI
Email: kitt.austgard@oslodsh.no
Språk: Nor
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Artikel
UI-nummer: 03043592
Sammanfattning
The development of nursing as a
‘métier’ and the consequences
this development may have for
the legitimacy of the nursing profession,
is focus for this article.
Did nursing’s pioneers have greater
‘professional’ independence
than we do today? Is nursing
about to become an instructionbased
undertaking? If so, how
will this affect nursing as an
autogenous profession? Two
claims will be discussed. One
concerns the relationship between
attitudes, professionalism,
and learning: Today we tend to
take wished-for professional attitudes
for granted; one assumes
that everyone has coinciding attitudes.
This may lead to professional
stagnation. My other contention
is that there seems to be a
misconception as to what the philosophy
of care may offer as
source for professional thought.
From a one-sided and narrowminded
viewpoint this philosophy
may be construed as ‘relational
ethics’. It is so much more.
Among other things it may contribute
to greater insight into and
better utilisation of knowledge in
the practical setting, something
that may enhance our understanding
and help us make action
choices of a more professional
character.