Over the year, nursing researchers used Hall’s
model and its corresponding instrument, the Professionalism
Inventory Scale, to measure professionalism
in nursing (Wynd 2003, Kim-Godwin et al. 2010).
Rutty (1998) showed that the characteristics of profession
in nursing include a defined knowledge base,
power and authority over training and education, registration,
altruistic service, a code of ethics, lengthy
socialisation and autonomy