Your colleague Mary, a recent graduate, announces one day that she int

QUESTION

Your colleague Mary, a recent graduate, announces one day that she intends to leave nursing in 3 to 4 months to pursue a position in marketing.

While at your agency, she plans to give patients excellent care and to learn as much as she can, because “Who knows? Nursing is a great job with a great pay and I may return someday.” Mary’s statements most accurately exemplify which orientation to the concept of nursing? Nursing as a(n):

a. Profession.
b. Occupation.
c. Flexible discipline.
d. Career with off and on ramps.

ANSWER:

ANS: B
Concern with nursing as potentially one in a series of possibly well-paid jobs reflects a view of nursing as an occupation.