PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY IN NURSING: A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL CHALLENGE

Abstract

This article reflects about the sometimes historically distorted image of nurses through means of communication and its influence in our professional identity. It invites to recognize the importance of our identity construction from the first passages in the profession and through my clinical practice, with which I could determine the object of nursing: The wonderful thing that is the act of taking care of and how human interaction dignifies the human being. The experience that I will relate is motivating to redefine the professional identity and find in each of us the difficulties and strengths that we own for its construction.