Activity 1

On Obligations of a Professional
1. What is your primary motivation in joining the Health Care profession?
Explain briefly.

In a primary sense, an excerpt from Nola Pender’s Health Promotion Model used to
emphasize that it is the nurse’s role to empower their patients as they actively regulate
their own behavior and maintain confidence in their ability to exert control and adhering
to lifestyle changes. The line “maintain confidence in their ability to exert control and
adhering to lifestyle changes” describes my experience back in the year 2018. Due to
dengue fever, I was terribly sick that led to my absence at school for almost 3 weeks.
Before I was discharged from the hospital, the nurses on duty taught and ensured me to
stay well-hydrated and observe proper diet. The reason being was my bad habit
involving eating fewer vegetables, which predisposed me to such diseases. Up until this
day, I constantly remind myself to drink water every day and maintain a balanced diet to
become healthy and resilient. Without a doubt, what the nurses have taught me was
highly effective and encouraging, which boosted my self-confidence.
Based on the given experience, I was motivated to join the health care profession
because I want to help those people in need, especially when it comes to changing their
lifestyles. Indeed, this challenged my empathetic self to pursue Nursing to promote self-
attribution and self-efficacy in my future clinical practice.
2. Give three attributes or characteristics that you think a Health Care
practitioner should possess? Explain why each of this attribute or
character is necessary in the health care profession.

As a student nurse, I was able to consolidate that nursing is a learned profession

because it incorporates the art of caring the sick and well individuals whilst holding a
theoretical base to exemplify the science behind it. In this sense, I was able to
consolidate that the attributes or characteristics a health practitioner should possess are
the following: Firstly, a healthcare practitioner should be well-rounded whereby in
assisting both sick and well individuals, they are expected to hone their own dynamic
skills in their recovery, promotion, and maintenance of their overall health. In line with
this, they are privileged to connect with people who are distinguished by a level of
beauty and treatment. Secondly, they should be harmonious or competent to their
own work because they can create their own images in society. In this regard, it
explains that a nurse, for example, must keep in pace with the growing needs of society
as there is a constant and rapid advancement in technology and the medical standards
of the society. Ultimately, a healthcare practitioner should be a critical thinker that
uses more on science and logic in performing care. They should think logically to make
sound judgements and select the best care solutions for their patients.
 All things considered, one can infer that they should be attentive to patients and
make certain they are meeting their ever-changing and unique needs. Without the other,
a good healthcare practitioner cannot have the dynamic skills to represent and serve to
the sick individuals and well individuals. They cannot encompass a single aspect since
these characteristics are interrelated from one another. Therefore, if one exhibit these
qualities, it is rather expected that relationships with patients will be long lasting as they
become healthier and happier.