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Enjoyment in nursing: results from a quantitative study
Job satisfaction is an important component to well-being. Enjoyment is an aspect of job satisfaction. This study about enjoyment in nursing provides an interesting insight into the factors that contribute to job satisfaction in nursing. The authors situate the reader in the background section. This is achieved through discussion about what enjoyment is in nursing, […]
Frameworks for professionalism
There have been three dominant frameworks for professionalism in medical education. These are 1) virtue-based; 2) behaviour-based; and 3) identity formation. Irby and Hamstra (2016) discuss the misunderstanding and confusion created by a lack of understanding of these frameworks by health professionals. The authors trace conceptions of virtue-based professionalism where physicians demonstrate through modelling moral […]