Kermode S
Contemp Nurse. 1993 Dec;2(3):102-9. doi: 10.5172/conu.2.3.102.
Nursing, it seems, is 'professionalizing' in a period of history when some consider the professions to be in decline. This view is partly a reaction to the recognition that professionalization has only one legitimate characteristic--the appropriation of power. Power to control work and to control one's destiny are the fundamental characteristics of professions. Nursing seeks this power, yet simultaneously seeks to be qualitatively different to the established professions. This is a dilemma for nursing--to be simultaneously the same and different to the established professions. Professionalization, despite its limitations and problems may, however, be the only way of achieving the power to be different.
在历史上的一个时期，当一些人认为专业职业正在衰落时，护理似乎正在“专业化”。这种观点部分是对一种认识的反应，即专业化只有一个合法特征——权力的获取。控制工作和掌控自己命运的权力是专业职业的基本特征。护理追求这种权力，但同时又试图在本质上与既有的专业职业有所不同。这对护理来说是一个两难境地——既要与既有的专业职业相同，又要有所不同。然而，尽管存在局限性和问题，专业化可能是实现差异化权力的唯一途径。
