Promoting and facilitating high quality care standards for dialysis and kidney transplant patients
in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.

Main phone (816) 880-9990
Patient toll free (800) 444-9965
Main fax (816) 880-9088
Data fax (816) 880-1775

7505 NW Tiffany Springs Pky. Suite 230 Kansas City, MO 64153

Back to the Basics: PROFESSIONALISM

What is it?

Professionalism is presenting yourself in a manner that shows others around you that you are:

• In control of yourself (emotions)
• Using sound, mature judgment and decisions
• Using the skills that are unique to your vocation to the best of your ability to the benefit of those you serve.

What it is not!

• Arrogance (I’m better than you)
• My way is always right
• Looking down on or talking down to others
• Extremes in behaviors or appearance

Why Is It Important?

It puts patients at ease; it is the right thing to do; it creates a calm atmosphere in the dialysis facility; and it promotes trust in the caregivers’ judgment.

How is it Shown?

• Honor
• Integrity
• Altruism
• Responsibility
• Accountability
• Leadership
• Caring
• Compassion
• Respect

Lasting Impressions

You only get one chance to make a first impression – make it a good one! The level of professionalism the patient perceives in his/her caregivers’ affects the satisfaction he/she experiences in the care provided by the facility.

Professionalism can be difficult to define and describe, but you definitely know it when it is not present!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2008 End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) #12 Network Coordinating Council, Inc. dba Heartland Kidney Network
This resource was (created, developed, compiled, etc.) while under contract with Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland. Contract #HHSM-500-2006-NW012C. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.