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It is important to define and promote professionalism because nurses’ conduct is at the heart of maintaining safe patient care and public trust in the profession. Professionalism and being professional are terms used frequently and interchangeably in the nursing literature and policy documents to describe qualities and conduct expected of nurses. However, there is not a shared understanding of the attributes of nursing professionalism.

This article explores three primary questions: (a) How is professionalism defined? (b) What are the attributes of professionalism as described in the literature? (c) What attributes of professionalism related to nursing are captured within the regulatory (licensure) framework of Australia?

A scoping review structured this study with articles about professionalism (a key search term) identified through PubMed, CINAHL, and Embase searches. Included articles …