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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| What Is the Nature of a Profession and of Nurse Professionals? | |
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| Professionalism in Nursing: An Overview | |
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| Problems of Professional Education | |
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| Ethical Theory Traditions | |
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| Integration of Ethical Traditions | |
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| Assumptions | |
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| Organization and Focus of the Book | |
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| The Crises in Professionalism and Professional Education | |
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| Status of Contemporary Professionalism | |
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| The Semantics of Professionalism in Nursing | |
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| The Missing Educational Piece: Attending to the Psychological and Ethical Self | |
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| Sociological and Educational Factors That Contribute to the Missing Piece | |
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| Revisiting Professionalism in Nursing Education | |
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| Roots and Branches of Professionalism | |
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| The Historical and Social Roots of Professions | |
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| Reflections on Nurse Professionalism | |
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| The Linguistic Roots of Professions and Professionals | |
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| Professions Defined | |
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| Defining Professionalism in Nursing | |
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| Hegemony in Nursing, Ethics, and Professionalism | |
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| Is It Possible to Develop an Inclusive Ethical Framework for Nurse Professionals? | |
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| The Place of Virtue Ethics Within Nursing | |
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| A Time of Dramatic Change | |
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| From Transactional to Transformational | |
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| A Changing World View: The Return to a Transformational Approach | |
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| Virtue Ethics and the Foundations of Western Thought | |
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| Virtue Ethics and the Foundations of Eastern Thought | |
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| Virtue Ethics as Central to a Practice Discipline | |
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| The Historial Context: Virtue Ethics in Nursing | |
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| A Framework for Nurse Professionals | |
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| A Transformational, Ethical Framework for Nurse Professionals (FrNP) | |
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| The Stairstep Model of Professional Transformation | |
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| Thorny Issues | |
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| Benefits of the FrNP and the Stairstep Model | |
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| How Can Professionalism Be Taught? | |
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| Learning a Profession: Considerations and Strategies | |
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| Education Within the Professions | |
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| Understanding Students in the Professions: Common Ground | |
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| How Should Ethics and Professionalism Be Taught? | |
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| Measuring Professionalism | |
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| Structuring Professionalism | |
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| Professionalism and Ethics | |
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| Measurement of the Global Construct of Professionalism | |
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| Developing Strategies for Evaluating Professionalism | |
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| Virtues Significant in Nursing | |
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| Virtues and Faith Orientations | |
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| Virtues in Practice | |
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| The Development of a Virtuous Nurse Professional | |
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| Virtues Significant in Nursing | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Equipping the Next Generations of Nurse Professionals | |
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| Emerging Trends in Nursing | |
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| Focus on the Nurse Professional as Fitting | |
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| Next Steps for Nursing Education | |
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| Challenges for the Future | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |