Becoming a Professional Nurse Defining Nursing and Socialization Into
Practice
• Describe the benefits of defining nursing and how this is related to
professional socialization.
• Compare early definitions of nursing with contemporary ones.
• Recognize the impact of historical, social, economic, and political
events on evolving definitions of nursing.
• Identify commonalities in existing definitions of nursing.
• Differentiate between formal and informal socialization.
• Identify factors that influence an individual’s professional
socialization.
• Describe two developmental models of professional socialization,
and explain how they are used.
• Describe strategies to ease the transition from student to
professional nurse
