Achieving a professional identity through writing

The attainment of physician’s professional identity through meaningful practice: A qualitative study

Background: Medical professional identity is how an individual perceives him/herself as a doctor. Formation of professional identity includes development, advancement, and socialization through social learning of specific knowledge, skills obtained while performing professional roles, practicing, and new attitudes and values. A qualitative study was performed to examine live experience of under...

Preparing Undergraduates for Professional Writing

Avoiding Plagiarism in Professional Writing

W riting for publication is an excellent way to c o m m u n i c a t e your ideas and knowledge to other readers. Publishing in the Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology (JADPRO) offers potential authors a venue to convey information in a variety of ways, including case studies, review articles on oncology subjects and advanced practice, commentary on unique issues affecting advanced ...

Factors Affecting Nursing Professional Identity: A Systematic Review

Introduction: In the new age, there is a need to have committed and professional nurses for reasons such as advancing technology, increasing public awareness, and public demand for quality care. Objective: Examining and Identifying affecting factors on the formation of nurses' professional identities. Materials: The paper was a systemic review study that was conducted in the year 2020 by search...

Mirror Writing and a Dissociative Identity Disorder

Individuals with dissociative identity disorder (DID) have been known to show varied skills and talents as they change from one dissociative state to another. For example, case reports have described people who have changed their handedness or have spoken foreign languages during their dissociative states. During an interview with a patient with DID, a surprising talent emerged when she wrote a...