Assignment 4: Developing professional goals

Assignment 4: Developing professional goals

Developing professional goals is critical to guiding your career and transitioning to become a practicing NP. The goals that you develop should be SMART. SMART goals are: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-specific (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Human Resources, n.d.). Keeping your goals SMART will increase your chances of meeting or exceeding your professional career goals.

For this Assignment, you will identify three short-term and three long-term goals. You also will explain how each goal relates to your professional career development and how you might achieve each of these goals.

For this Assignment, write a paper that is no more than 2 pages long that addresses the following:

· Identify at least three short-term goals (1-2 years)

· Identify at least three long-term goals (3-5 years)

· Explain why you selected each goal and how they relate to your professional career development

· Create a strategic plan that explains how you might achieve each of these goals

http://hrweb.mit.edu/performance-development/goal-setting-developmental-planning/smart-goals

Assignment 2

A self-assessment is an opportunity for you to review what you have learned in the program, evaluate your clinical skills, and develop goals before exiting the NP program. For this assignment, you will complete the Risk Control Self-Assessment Checklist for Nurse Practitioners and identify your areas of strength and weakness. You also will explain how you plan to improve on these weaknesses, as well as how you plan to master clinical skills you have not obtained prior to exiting NP program.

To prepare:

· Complete the Risk Control Self-Assessment Checklist for Nurse Practitioners

· Review preceptor and faculty evaluations in Meditrek for all completed clinical courses

· Consider your strengths and weaknesses

· Review types of patients treated and clinical procedures performed

By Day 7

Write a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

· Identify at least three strengths

· Explain why you consider these strengths and what you can do to maintain them in your practice

· Identify at least three weaknesses

· Explain how you plan to address each weakness

· Examine at least three clinical skills you need to obtain prior to exiting the program

· Explain how you plan to master the clinical skills before exiting NP program

· Analyze the history of advanced practice nurses and the emerging role of your specialty area, and discuss what contributions you plan to make to advance the nursing profession

Risk control self assessment

http://www.hpso.com/Documents/Risk%20Education/individuals/NP_RM_Checklist_2012.pdf

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.