NUR 1055 JBoyett_Module06Project-Part2

PERSONAL IDENTITY OF THE NURSE: SCOPE OF NURSING PRACTICE 2 Professional Identity of the Nurse: Scope of Nursing Practice Identity is the single most important thing that a nurse can develop throughout their career. The development of professional identity is a continuous process that begins with admission to the nursing program and evolves throughout one’s professional career in a dynamic and fluid process where interacting relationship of education and practice lead to self-reflection, growth, and human flourishing. (Larson, 2013) Using resources such as standards of care, code of ethics, their role in continuity of care, beliefs, motives, values and experiences, allows for an individual to develop themselves into not only the nurse but also the person that they want to become. Actions for a registered nurse is defined by their scope of practice in Section 464.003(3) (a), Florida Statutes. "Practice of professional nursing" means the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skill based upon applied principles of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences which shall include, but not be limited to three ma