Professional Development Plan
Attaining a Master’s degree in Nursing requires a great deal of focus and coordinated effort. It also requires that the student’s personal and professional goals be aligned, as the Master’s degree in Nursing is really the ultimate expression of this alignment: a student whose personal values and aims do not reflect the professional aims represented by the Master’s in Nursing is a student who is likely to be pulled in two different directions at once. Unless the ultimate aims converge, divergence will result—and that is why it is so important that a nursing student reflect upon how his or her personal and professional goals correlate. This paper will serve as a professional development plan: it will give some background on my personal history, my professional accomplishments, my future aspirations, while also identifying my academic interests and my goals for my Walden educational experience.
Personal and Professional Goals
It has always been my goal to be a nurse. Even though I started out in the industry as a secretary, it was not long before I was actually enrolled in nursing school, pursuing my dream. Recently, I applied for the Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at Walden University because I felt naturally drawn to the idea of serving the elderly population. Perhaps having spent so much time caring for my elderly parents over the past few years had warmed me to the idea. Whatever it was, I knew after reading the description of this program online that I could identify with Walden’s mission—of serving “a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar-practitioners so that they can effect positive social change” (Walden, 2018). My own background in nursing in the 21st century had instilled in me a similar mission: specifically, I wanted to be able to manage the care of acutely and critically ill patients, collaborate with a multidisciplinary team, provide continuity of care, education, positive interaction and be a constant presence on the units, helping nurses, patients, and families. Making that happen is my new professional goal.
My personal and professional goals intersect with my academic interests in that I want to help make nurses better and I want to help make patients better. I want to be able to give families the peace of mind they seek and have a right to, no matter what situation their loved ones are in. Health care is about facing facts—not alone but together, being there for one another; showing support, empathy, sympathy and true quality of care. Specialized learning and the attainment of a graduate...
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