In: Nursing
The paragraph describes that the patients or their relatives and the community will most probably misunderstand the health proffessionals based on their professional appearance. For example a physiotherapists wears a white coat as similar as a doctor and a nurse. In such cases there is a high risk for the common people to misunderstood the physiotherapists as doctor or a nurse.
It is really very surprising that somenone is misunderstanding that i am a doctor or a nurse. This is mainly due to the common lack of awareness by the people about the other streams of health care system. The patients and their family members might misunderstand a professional by looking on their appearance of wearing a white coat. This is a very common and very much interesting matter for being recogonised as a Higher authority personal.
Considering myself to the situation i would help the patient or their family members to know my own job description and job discipline to which i really belongs to and works at. The details about my position and status will help them identify that they were misunderstood about me. I will approach them with calm and peace to make them comfortable and will not rather argue with the individuals to make my suggestions supreme. I might also show my identity proof of the work setting so that they can understands my state of the job at brief.