A nursing faculty member would judge that activities designed to foster socialization in students have been successful when the students
a. are able to communicate in an effective manner with other health care providers.
b. incorporate professional values, norms, and behaviors into their self-identities.
c. learn the legal and ethical standards required to practice as a professional nurse.
d. understand the complexities of their new, multifaceted role in health care today.
B
Students must incorporate the values, skills, behaviors, and norms appropriate to nursing into their self-identities in a process called socialization, which begins in nursing school and occurs again as nurses change roles or jobs.
Professional and effective communication is a vital part of working in a multidisciplinary team, but it does not demonstrate socialization.
Understanding legal and ethical standards is important to today's nurses, but this is not the best choice for two reasons: First, simply learning the standards is not enough; one must act on them. Second, this is not all that is involved in the socialization process.
Being able to understand the complexities of the nursing role today is something that the student will not truly understand until immersed in the first job. This is not directly related to socialization into a profession such as nursing.
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