Janice Cooper has recently joined a hospital as a part of the internship program prescribed by the nursing school she attends. Janice, who was inspired to take up this profession by the story of Florence Nightingale, has very strong ideals about how she should behave as a nurse. She feels that as a nurse she must be gentle, pleasant, and caring at all times so she can serve her patients well, and she often goes to great lengths as an intern by putting in extra hours at the hospital and so on. The scenario reflects Janice's ________.
A) role fuzziness
B) role ambiguity
C) role conflict
D) role perception
E) role status

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Role perception is an individual's view of how he or she is supposed to act in a given situation. Janice's behavior as a nurse is guided by her perception of how she should act in this profession.

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