Abraham Flexner's criteria of a profession

shortie.ja · Sep 09, 2008 10:45 PM

hey,
This is my first year in nursing and am sooo confused its not funny,
I got an assignment to look up Abraham Flexner's criteria of a profession as it regards to nursing, when i google it i got 8 criterias and then i used yahoo search and i got 6 criterias which are different from the first 8...i need help, how do i know which is the correct one??? i'm suppose to compare it to nursing today but i am sooo lost as to which criterias to use i dunno wat to do...

can someone help me out with this cuz am L.O.S.T.

msfb · Sep 09, 2008, 10:49 PM

I find 6.
http://www.nursing.twsu.edu/bridge/lessons/class2.asp

In 1915 Dr. Abraham Flexner described criteria of a profession.

Criteria includes:

1) Professional activity is based on intellectual action along with personal responsibility 2) The practice of a profession is based on knowledge, not routine activities 3) There is practical application rather than just theorizing 4) There are techniques that can be taught 5) A profession is organized internally 6) A profession is motivated by altruism, with members working in some sense for the good of society.

shortie.ja · Sep 10, 2008, 01:26 AM

thanks sooo much for ur help, thats the one i found with yahoo

piccadili · Sep 19, 2009, 02:22 PM

thanks for the info but can i use this as a reference

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Abraham Flexner's criteria of a profession

Abraham Flexner's criteria of a profession

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