Nursing: Professional Strategic Plan

Strategic planning is only valuable for organizations but also for individuals themselves. On a professional level, strategic planning paves the way for the individual to set goals that he thinks should be accomplished within a certain time frame. In this way, the person would stay focused and motivated to fulfill the tasks that would support him in steering towards his yearly or monthly goals. This paper aims at creating a professional strategic plan that would give direction, crucial for clarity in professional life, based on Boyers Model of Scholarship.

Type of Scholarship

2-year Plan

5-year Plan

10-year Plan

Scholarship of Discovery

Building new knowledge by researching the existing evidence.

Building and disseminating the newly gained knowledge to peers and the patients

Consistently forming a link to the new research that would keep coming in the next ten years with professional practice to keep my professional advancement

Scholarship of Integration

Making linkage of the knowledge gained with other nursing disciplines for better patient outcomes. The disciplines are cardiac care, maternal and child care, elderly care, geriatrics, forensic, mental health, emergency, midwifery, obstetrics, etc. (Tulchinsky & Varavikova, 2014).

Becoming a part of interdisciplinary healthcare inquiry for which previously gained knowledge from the research could be used.

Increased involvement in interdisciplinary programs and review of health policy so that integrative nursing could assist in building person-centered relationships and trust with patients and society as a whole.

Scholarship of Application

Applying the existing knowledge to my area of practice with dedication and the goal of serving the larger community and humanity

Practicing knowledge development so that serving the service and profession is justified with my current knowledge and experience in my practice area.

Be on the lookout for updates and new information with innovative methods to tackling real-life problems so that the generated inquiry could help my practical application in my practice area

Scholarship of Teaching

Even if leadership or not, teaching would inculcate transmitting knowledge through formal or informal means to anyone I contact, be it my interdisciplinary colleagues, peers or patients, juniors, etc.

Involvement in improving expertise in any faculty members expertise and teaching them about developing skills or evaluation methods, for example.

After gaining a plethora of knowledge in the field, mentoring along with education could be a suitable direction that would facilitate learning for others to move towards a healthy building of the community

Scholarship of Discovery

Holistically, scholarship of discovery would enable me to continue research so that...

…profession. This application and its resulting perceiving quality would also fortify my aesthetic knowing capabilities, which are the heart of the nursing practice, including empathy, adaptation, and capacity to serve (Rafii, Nasrabadi & Tehrani, 2021).

Scholarship of Teaching

Further, as a part of contributing to the nursing practice, it is imperative to teach the knowledge to the juniors or colleagues for multi-disciplinary team benefits. It would amplify the value of productive work relationships, and gaps would be filled by training and education who already are experts in their fields. With relevance to my practice area, I expect I can disseminate my knowledge to college students or particularly those who come as internees in the departments. It is mainly said that new under-training internees and medical students seek advice from senior nurses for certain procedures and extenuation of risks. In the form of teaching, information sharing is a two-way process for gaining value for both seniors and juniors who have mutual gains or goals (Savolainen, 2017). Also, teaching patients would transform several advantages of health status in terms of correct use of medicine and dosage, embracing healthy lifestyles, preventive measures, and self-management for the care of disease and wounds…