Behaviors Implying the Presence/Absence of Professional Values |
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| Value: Placing the Patient's Welfare First |
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| Is accessible and prompt in answering patient's requests |
Unreliable in completion of tasks |
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| Priority of activities reflects the patient's needs |
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| Explains treatments and procedures; keeps patient's well being in mind |
Elicits hostility from patients and others |
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| Is responsive and reliable when needs are identified by patients or staff |
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| Justifies doing things "just for the experience" without taking into consideration patient's needs |
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| Calls and makes appropriate arrangements if unable to be on time or present for clinical |
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approach is "who is right" not "what is right" |
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Fails to make appropriate arrangements if unable to be on time or present for clinical |
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| Value: Committments to Nursing and Nursing Poilicies |
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| Present and willing to learn; complies voluntarily with rules an policies of the nursing department |
Chronically tardy and absent |
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| Demonstrates enthusiasm for clinical; appears to enjoy nursing |
Passes off assignments or tasks to others when possible |
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| Looks and acts in a professional manner, i.e., neat and clean; behaves in a professional way |
Sloppy |
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| Pleasant to staff, peers and patients |
Chronic malcontent |
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| Gives appropriate information to others |
Gives inappropriate information to others |
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| Completes charts and records |
Chronically deficient on upkeep of charts and records |
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Feels existent policies are irrelevant, unimportant and nonobligatory |
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| Value: Cooperativity |
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| Able to disagree diplomatically |
Argumentative, stubborn |
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| Knows when to stop arguing and start helping |
Sullen or arrogant with peer, staff patients |
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| Takes criticism constructively |
Noncommunicative with staff |
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| Deals with stress and frustrations without taking it out on others |
Passive-aggressive behaviors when dissatisfied |
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| Value: Intellectual and Personal Integrity |
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| Readily admits mistakes and oversights |
Lies or fabricates data when needed to cover up mistakes and oversights |
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| Forthright with peers and staff |
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| Observes safe technique even when not being suprevised |
Fails to use safe techniques when not being supervised |
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| Accepts responsibility for errors and tries to take appropriate corrective action |
Blames others for own shortcomings |
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| Selects appropriate response to patients even if preferring to focus on something else |
Sneaks away or does not show up |
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| Does own work and does not represent anyone else's work as being original |
Represents works of others as being original |
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| Statements apperar to be well based on fact and believeable, does not provide information or facts unless known to be correct |
Provides data without appropriate checks for correctness |
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| Adapted from Frederick C. Lippers, III, James Farmer, and Micheal F. Sheafer, "Professional Behavior in the Orthopedic Resident, "Clinical Orthopedics and Related Research, il 1983), 188-192 |
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