The Specifics of the Formation of Professionally Important Qualities of Nurses
The article presents the results of an empirical study of a complex of professionally important qualities necessary for the qualitative implementation of the professional activity of a nurse. Taking into account the literature data and professionograms for the profession “nurse” provided a definition of the main professionally important qualities of a nurse: switchability and concentration of attention, communicative and organizational abilities; empathy, self-control, as well as internality, which is the basis of an even more generalized quality - responsibility. As a result of the application of system-genetic and structural-level approaches to the analysis of the patterns of changes in the organization of the structure of professionally important qualities of future nursing specialists, the genesis and principles of transformation of the professionalization of nursing activities during the period of students' training at the medical college were determined. It is shown that the professionalization of future nursing specialists goes through a number of important stages: the stage of adaptation to the future profession, the stage of professional crisis and the stage of formation of professional identity. The identification of patterns of changes in the structure of professionally important qualities of nurses' activity showed the nonlinear nature of the transformation and the indirect presence of motivational professionally important qualities that underlie the most important of them - responsibility.