Megan is a new graduate who has been hired onto a medical-surgical nursing unit at the local hospital. She has discovered that her initial expectation of what nursing was going to be like was very different from what she is experiencing in practice
What Megan is experiencing is known as _________. a. being accepted into the profession
b. being questioned in the profession
c. being alienated from the profession
d. being socialized into the profession
d
a. Incorrect: Megan's experience is not a reflection of being accepted into the nursing profession. Acceptance includes the importance of being accepted by other nurses, which in part requires that the new nurses accept the unit's culture.
b. Incorrect: Being questioned in the profession consists of new nurses' awareness that other professionals are questioning their education and whether they are able to meet the requirements of a practising nurse.
c. Incorrect: Being alienated from the profession means that new nurses who do not assume the norms and behaviours expected by the other nurses become outsiders on the unit.
d. Correct: Megan's experience reflects socialization into the nursing profession.
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