Professional self respect

Risk and self-respect AM

What is the nature of the experience of risk? Risk can impose distinctive burdens on individuals: making us anxious, impairing our relationships, and limiting our ability to plan our lives. On the other hand, risky situations are sometimes exciting, liberating, and even empowering. The article explores the idea that risk can result in benefits for the individuals who bear it. Specifically, we e...

Understanding Professional Self-Regulation

In the course of daily life, people routinely come together to make business transactions in which they buy and sell products and services ranging from groceries to dental care. When making these transactions, some people may be disadvantaged as compared to others, due an imbalance of information and knowledge. While the average person will be able to determine when a piece of fruit has spoiled...

[The privacy respect and the professional secret in nursing].

The situations that appear in health care demand keep awake aspects of the personal privacy, that in the normal life would be reserved to familiary relations. The interactions that settle down between the person who care and who is cared is an exceptional relationship of proximitiy. The healh professional, managers, computing pleople and administratives, collect original data of clinical histor...

Self-respect and the Stepford wives

Self-assessment, self-direction, and the self-regulating professional.

One of the cornerstones of autonomy for any profession is the claim to self-regulation. To be effectively self-regulating, the profession generally depends on the individual practitioner to self-regulate his own maintenance of competence activities. This model of individual self-regulation, in turn, depends on the practitioner's ability to self-assess gaps in competence and willingness to seek ...