Full Description
Professional identity is a central topic in all courses of professional training and educators must decide what kind of identity they hope their students will develop, as well as think about how they can recruit for, facilitate and assess this development.
This unique book explores professional identity in a group of caring professions, looking at definition, assessment, and teaching and learning. Professional Identity in the Caring Professions includes overviews of professional identity in nursing, medicine, social work, teaching, and lecturing, along with a further chapter on identity in emergent professions in healthcare. Additional chapters look at innovative approaches to selection, competency development, professional values, leadership potential and reflection as a key element in professional and interprofessional identity. The book ends with guidance for curriculum development in professional education and training, and the assessment of professional identity.
This international collection is essential reading for those who plan, deliver and evaluate programs of professional training, as well as scholars and advanced students researching identity in the caring professions, including medicine, nursing, allied health, social work and teaching.
Contents
1.Introduction:Professional Identity-Issues and Approaches 2.Professional Identity in Medicine 3.Professional Identity in Nursing 4.Professional Identity in Social Work 5.Social Workers' Professional Identity in Its Social Context :A Comparative Analysis 6.Professional Identity in Teaching 7.Changes of Academic Professional Identities in UK Universities 8.Evolving Professional Identities in Health Care: The Case of Associate Professions 9.Professional Identity and Competence to Practise in Medicine 10.The Future Starts Now - the Identity and Competence of Doctors and the Impact of Accreditation 11.The Measurement of Leadership Qualities as an Aspect of Nursing Professional Identity 12.Are we Admitting the Best Students? Seeking the "Best Fit" With Institutional Values and Professional Identity Development in US Medical School Admissions Processes 13.Identity Structure Analysis as a Means to Explore Social Worker Professional Identity 14.Reflective Practice as an Aspect of Professional Identity 15.Crisis in Teacher Identity: ISA Guided Mentorship and Teacher Turnover 16.Interprofessional education and Interprofessional identity. 17.Psychometric Measurement of Professional Identity through Values in Nursing and Medicine 18. Explicating Professional Identity through Consultative methods 19.The Potential Contribution of the Delphi Technique to the Study of Professional Identity 20.Observing Identity: Measuring Professional Identity Empirically in The Healthcare Professions 21.Conclusion: Professional Identity and the Curriculum
