Professionalisim Counts,embrace It
The word professional traditionally means a person who has obtained a professional (doctoral) level degree - a physician or lawyer or so on. The term professional has also become mainstreamed and used to imply white collar working person or commercial such as in the case of a commercial athlete compared to an amateur.
In western nations, such as the United States, the term commonly describes highly educated, mostly salaried workers, who enjoy considerable work autonomy, economic security, a comfortable salary, and are commonly engaged in creative and intellectually challenging work. Less technically, it may also refer to a person having impressive competence in a particular activity.
A 'true' professional must be proficient in all criteria for the field of work they are practising professionally in. Criteria include following:
1. Academic qualifications - a doctoral or law degree - i.e., university college/institute
2. Expert and specialised knowledge in field which one is practising professionally
3. Excellent manual/practical and literary skills in relation to profession
4. High quality work in (examples): creations, products, services, presentations, consultancy, primary/other research, administrative, marketing or other work endeavours
5. A high standard of professional ethics, behaviour and work activities while carrying out one's profession (as an employee, self-employed person, career, enterprise, business, company, or partnership/associate/colleague, etc.)
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The idea of a profession also has ancient Greek Noun 1. Ancient Greek - the Greek language prior to the Roman Empire
Greek, Hellenic, Hellenic language - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
The Hippocratic physicians seemed to be among the first to grasp the idea that a profession is granted certain rights and privileges by society in exchange for ensuring the provision of certain services. Thus professionals are given the opportunity, to self-regulate as long as the profession in which they participate serves societal needs. There is little room here for conscientious objection because all members of the profession have a duty to help ensure that the profession provides services, including those with which they might not agree. Further, to the extent that an individual professional does wish to opt out of a particular service, his or her duties to the profession require that this individual action not unduly burden colleagues who would have to step in to provide the service.
Just as professionals have little leeway lee·way
n.
1. The drift of a ship or an aircraft to leeward of the course being steered.
2. A margin of freedom or variation, as of activity, time, or expenditure; latitude. See Synonyms at room. for conscientious objection (the negative exercise of professional conscience) to medical practices, so they also have obligations that are superior to the law. For example, it might be morally required of physicians that they engage in a form of civil disobedience civil disobedience, refusal to obey a law or follow a policy believed to be unjust. Practitioners of civil disobediance basing their actions on moral right and usually employ the nonviolent technique of passive resistance in order to bring wider attention to the if the law interferes with their ability to serve their patients. I recall here the case of physicians in New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in the 1950s who let news organizations know that they were implanting IUDS in severely impaired patients who wanted them and would be put at risk by a pregnancy. This was a positive exercise of professional conscience.
The ability to exercise conscience is desirable for professionals in spite of their privileged role in our society, because we would he loath loath also loth
{Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined}
[Middle English loth, displeasing, loath to require them to do only that which we "order" them to do. We want professionals to be thoughtful and reflective. We don't want to turn doctors into mere body mechanics body mechanics
n.
The application of kinesiology to the use of proper body movement in daily activities, to the prevention and correction of problems associated with posture, and to the enhancement of coordination and endurance. . This is partly because we also recognize a difference between someone who is a member of a self-regulating profession and a technician with highly developed skills but who is not a member of a profession. So, for example, we want obstetricians to think for themselves, even though the duties they have toward their colleagues and the profession are such that they have little leeway for the exercise of conscientious objection. They must consider the obligation of physicians to serve the interests of their patients, which is what society properly expects of them. On the other hand, if society attempts to interfere with this obligation, they must engage in civil disobedience. It follows from this view that the medical profession has a duty to ensure that medical services are provided to patients in need. Abortion has been recognized as a medical service since the origins of the art of medicine and was certainly common in the ancient world and throughout the history of American medicine. The failure of the American medical profession to ensure this service is reasonably available in certain regions is a serious moral failure and a disservice dis·ser·vice
{harmful action; an injury}
to the profession. Similarly, modern hospitals, as extensions of the ability of physicians to exercise their art, have a roughly similar obligation that derives from that of the medical profession.