Health Notions, Volume 5 Number 2 (February 2021) ISSN 2580-4936 59 | Publisher : Humanistic Networ k for Science and Technology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.33846/hn50205 http://heanoti.com/index.php/hn PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE URL of this article: http://heanoti.com/index.php/hn/article/view/hn50205 Nursing Profession, Caring and Discipline Wiwin Martiningsih 1(CA) , Sri Winarni 2 , Angelito Estoesta Alvarado 3 1(CA) Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Indonesia; wiwin_martiningsih@yahoo.co.id (Corresponding Author) 2 Department of Nursing, Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang, Indonesia, winkhamaisya@gmail.com 3 Department of Education, Schools Division of Isabela, Philippines, angelito.alvarado@deped.gov.ph ABSTRACT Nursing indeed is the art of caring and selfless giving of time, effort, love, and care. The patient is the center of nursing, and it is their responsibility to make sure they are receiving the right care that they can receive. There are so many ways to show caring that the possibilities never end. The purpose of this study was to generate knowledge which informed caring in nursing as a discipline within applying attributes of caring . Mayeroff and Roach’s attributes guided the concept analysis within the theoretical perspective of caring. The emerging themes are: Caring as the central focus of Nursing, Caring as a Profession and Discipline, Our perspective of caring, Our idea of a caring nurse, and How does Nurse care for others. Caring is everything and nurse should applying attributes of caring in the fields of nursing. Caring is not only able to care for the client, but also how the client is satisfied and the nurse always continues to improve knowledge and be innovative and creative. Keywords: nursing profession; caring; discipline INTRODUCTION As a disciplined group of individuals who obey ethical standards, it is a profession. This declaration is to society and is our commitment to care for individuals, groups, and communities, often when they are in their most susceptible state. In return, society grants us a license to practice our chosen profession with commitment and dedication. The license informs the public that its practitioners are efficient, accountable to any actions pertaining to practice that which the profession has deemed necessary. A profession is a call-in that requires special and skilled planning. A profession is differentiated from other kinds of occupation by 1) Its requirement of prolonged specialized training acquiring a body of knowledge pertinent to the role to be performed, 2) An orientation of the individual toward service, either to community or association. And the criteria of a profession are: 1) Professional status is achieved when an occupation involves practice, A profession bears great individual responsibility and based on theoretical knowledge, 2) The privilege to practice is granted only after the individual has accomplished a standardized program of highly specialized education and has established an ability to sustain the standards and competence for practice, 3) The body of specialized knowledge is continually enlarged and assessed through research and 4) The members are self-organized and collectively assume the responsibility of corroborating standards for education and practice (1) . Nursing has filled the criteria of a profession. It was an occupation that engages practice (like working in the hospital or other fields and which receives remuneration or compensation) and must pursue continuous professional development such as graduate studies, post-graduate programs, seminars, and training to enhance their competencies and have the body of specialized knowledge is continually developed (be developed through research), moreover, being a member of a credited professional organization to keep the responsibility of establishing standards for education and practice. Professional development in Nursing can be seen as a specified education, knowledge base, ethics, and autonomy. And the role of the professional nurse includes care provider, communicator, educator, counselor, client advocate, change agent, leader, manager, researcher (1) . If the nurse has been carried out his role properly and responsibly, finally, they are a professional nurse who has given satisfaction to the patients or clients. Numerous authors contend that a discipline is known by the knowledge base that embodies its distinctive perspectives, theories, methods, worldviews, and phenomena of concern (2) . The meaning of discipline is both teaching and learning. The knowledge is enlarged in the Nursing discipline to practice professional nursing, It is called nursing science, which is constructed by a rigorous study of practice, theory, and research. The shared knowledge from other disciplines is what shapes science. The meaning of nursing can be a noun (body of knowledge) and also can be a verb (the practice of nursing). METHODS Mayeroff and Roach’s attributes guided the concept analysis within the theoretical perspective of caring. This investigation describe the feelings and experiences of Nurses in caring, either as a teacher (Nurse Educator) or caregiver.