POLICE
I am privileged to have the opportunity to often interact and interrelate with a police superintendent who happens to be an uncle. As such, I have learned several issues in relation to the police service such as that a superintendent is a senior manager in the police professional framework. To carry out this role, one must be a competent chief inspector which is the rank just below the superintendent. As a senior manager, a police superintendent is responsible for several tasks in his/her line of duty. These are setting of strategies, standards, and day to day operational policy across a particular department or a series of policing responsibilities and authorizing operational activity in relation with legislative powers accorded to the rank. My persuasive attitude and an overwhelming urge to learn more has enabled me to go into details regarding the police profession, and I have been able to gather a variety of information and especially from my uncle whom I tend to meet often. The police force is a constituted body of individuals empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder (Terrence, 2009). Among the several powers of police is legitimized appliance of force. Policing includes a series of activities in different circumstances. The most predominant activities are concerned with preservation and maintenance of order. A number of obligations govern police officers. To begin with, a police officer must understand and apply the law diligently. Secondly, one must be able to dissect intricate social problems and finally a police officer must be able to incorporate the knowledge of human needs and development with the psychology of individuals whose attitudes towards the law may be varying from their own. The quality of a police officer is founded on the basis of his/her ability to resolve issues without applying force or other suppressive strategies.
Before I interacted with any police officer or learned about the profession, I thought that police officers do not attend any form of learning institution. I thought that they were just recruited and went for their training. However, with time I have come to realize that just as in any other profession, police officers go through college. It is here where the individuals gain better communication skills and as such are able to use these skills to discover new ideas to create community partnerships that improve the empirical safety and the society’s sense of safety (MILLER, 2013).
In the current world, police officers are expected to computer literate and technologically knowledgeable such that they can read, interpret, organize, prepare, and analyze statistical data. A professional police officer should act in integrity in accordance to the values and ethical guidelines of the police service. He/she should deliver on promises as such demonstrates individual commitment, energy and urge to get things done in a diligent manner. As I learned from a news article in the New York Times, police professionalism defines and reinforces principles and as such a professional police officer should demonstrate these individually nurturing a culture of personal responsibility within the operational unit. Such an officer bears responsibility for making unpopular decisions (Terrence, 2009). He/she should demonstrate courage and resilience in tough situations, defusing conflict, and maintaining calmness and professionalism when subjected to pressure. A competent police officer’s decision making abilities should be flexible. Such an officer incorporates complex information as fast as possible, weighing up alternatives and making sound, timely decisions. He/she seeks advice from specialists on complex issues and makes apparent, proportionate, and permissible decisions (MILLER, 2013).
NURSES
Health care is advancing and changing every single day as time goes by. Nurses are caring a larger number of critical patients that require professional knowledge and skills. Nursing can be defined as the protection, endorsement, and optimization of health and abilities, avoidance of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering by diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, societies and the whole world populace at large. Nursing has evolved to become the fastest growing profession within the health care field.
In order to meet the diverse patients’ needs, nurses must be prepared to do so by practicing their education, function as leaders, and improve their skills to endorse smooth academic progression (Chaska, 1993). According to the IOM report on nursing practice, the upcoming advancement of education and knowledge enables nurses to deliver outstanding quality of care. It is up to an individual nurse to continue to seek out knowledge and get familiar with the most up-to-date advancements in order to continue delivering quality health care. This also enhances a nurses' increasing in versatility and adaptability.
Nursing is a profession where leadership is clearly seen. Nurses team up with the multidisciplinary team to identify a problem and as such are the backbone to the quality of care that is delivered to the patient. Nurses are involved in an array of activities such as planning care, monitoring, assessment, education, coaching, chronic disease self-management, support, just but to mention a few. They also play a major role in suggested contributions and at the same time keeping in mind that their chief focus is the well being of the patient. Nurses are held responsible for individual professional and growth when it comes to leadership.
Nurses’ professional identities build up throughout their lifetimes, beginning from before they enroll for nursing education, throughout their years of learning and continue to advance during their careers as nurses. Education is a major period since then the students gain the knowledge and skills that distinguish nurses as professional health care providers/workers from lay people. Nurses are rigorously trained through proficient educational programs to practice independently and deliver primary health care services (Chaska, 1993). Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative health care of all individuals regardless of their age, group, family, racial background, and ethnicity, sick or unwell and in all settings. Nursing profession is founded upon a social agreement that delineates professional rights and responsibilities incorporating mechanisms for public accountability. Nursing practice is governed by the law and entrance to the practice is regulated at the national level. This profession enhances quality health care for all encompassing maintaining their credentials, code of ethics, standards, competencies and abiding by their education. The profession combines social science, physical science, nursing theory and technological advancements in caring for patients. As such, nurses are able to care for all persons who are healthy and sick in a horrifying manner based on a person’s physical, emotional, intellectual, psychological, spiritual, and social needs (Huston, 2014). Nursing profession encompasses that nurses may follow their individual and professional interest by working with any group of people, in any setting, at time. It gives nurses the freedom to employ their services wherever and whenever one is willing.
Works Cited
Blandford, Sonia, and Catherine Knowles, Developing Professional Practice 0-7, Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013, Print.
Chaska, Norma L, The Nursing Profession: A Time to Speak, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993, Print
Huston, Carol J. Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges & Opportunities. Baltimore, MD: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014, Print
Terrence, Brown J. Journeying from College to Work: the Changing Identity of Early career Police, Research Online, 2009, Print
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