Regulatory process to providing nursing and healthcare.

Professional status promotes recognition, social prestige, financial reward, and power to occupational groups. Power can be used by occupational groups to advance the profession in a positive way that benefits society or in a negative way that exploits those served and alienates other professional groups. Why would an occupational group want society to regard it as a profession? Consider the sample items included in the attached Multi-factorial Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) to determine how different leadership styles might influence the expression of nursings' professional identity and associated power. How can you as a nurse use your professional identity to promote advocacy in the future?