ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of e-professionalism and the socialisation of student nurses into the nursing profession. The argument is made for active and reflective educational interventions and tools to raise awareness of and facilitate the behaviours that reflect e-professionalism. In the UK, all professionally registered nurses are required to operate within the scope of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct. Pre-registration student nurses are undertaking an educational programme aimed at facilitating their professional socialisation into nursing. Socialisation is “the process by which the objective world of reality is internalised and becomes subjectively meaningful”. The scenario failed to evidence a clear professional breach at the first stage, when considering clarity; as such it would perhaps recommend “no intervention or a reflective activity” for the individual in question. Professional socialisation is the process by which individuals acquire knowledge, skills and values relating to the profession.
