Description
Overview: Professional Development Plan
This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by creating a professional development plan.
Look back at your Professional Development Inventory and Leadership Self-Assessment from module one. Use these tools as you develop your own professional development plan for both short term and long term success. You will develop your own personal nursing philosophy, using previously developed philosophies (cite sources). You will then set short term and long term goals keeping in mind intrinsic and extrinsic forces that may aid or hinder your progress.
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Part A. Completion of Assessment Tools
My Vision and Interests
Personal VALUES Influencing FACTORS
Responsibilities
Commitment
Personal Experience
Family Member(s)
Friends
Peers
Mentors
Work-Related
OPTIONS to Consider PLANNED Accomplishments
Education
Financial Needs
Balancing Personal & Professional Life
As an Individual
Leader
Team Member
My SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Personal Strengths/Talents
Professional Interests
Personal Characteristics
Professional Development Areas
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
Learning Experiences
Flexibility
Planned or Unplanned
Resources and Networks
Balancing Personal & Professional Life
Fears
Competition
Limiting Factors
My Professional Goals
Write at least one goal in each time category. Write the goal in measurable terms, and list them in order of those that are most important to you to those that are least important.
As a New BSN Graduate With Experience 3 – 5 Years
New Horizons 10 Years Career Accomplishments 25 – 30 Years
Part B: Analysis and Conclusions
References, Format, and Organization
Write at least one paragraph (at least three sentences) in response to each of the categories below. (Each space will expand as you type.) Use at least 3 references to support your discussion of each component. The references that you utilize aid in validity of your personal philosophy as well as help to strengthen your argument for prioritization as well as strategies used. Write citations in APA format, and include a references list (in APA format) at the end of the document. (NOTE: To make it easier to distinguish your work from the guiding instructions, use black text.)
Statement of Philosophy
Record your statements of philosophy of Nursing and of personal philosophy. Explain how these are reflected the values, vision, and personal interests that you recorded in your “My Vision and Interests” tool.
Use of Assessment Tools to Formulate Goals
Clearly utilize information from the Assessment Tools as the basis for formulating your goals. Develop a list of prioritized goals based on your assessments. Goals must be stated in measurable terms, i.e., how can you tell you have accomplished that goal? Identify dates for accomplishing each goal.
Specific Strategies
Identify specific strategies for accomplishing your goals. Give specific examples for accomplishing your goals, including resources and major intermediate steps.
Priority of Goals
Explain how the priority of your goals is consistent with your statements of values. Explain how your goals are congruent with each other and with your values.
References
Sample Solution
