3. Briefly describe the real (or hypothesized) healthcare setting for their first year of
practice as an RN.
4. Describe and discuss one significant personal learning need that arises from an analysis
of all the following:
a) patterns of own strengths and areas for growth,
b) the CNO entry-to-practice competencies (2019),
c) the desired setting for the first year of practice, e.g., medical unit.
5. Explain the relationship between the learning need and the selected CNO entry-to-
practice competencies (2019).
6. Formulate an overall SMART learning goal to meet the learning need.
7. Justify that the goal has met each of the five SMART criteria (specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, or realistic, and timed).
8. Link your goal with the CNO Code of Conduct. What principles of the Code of Conduct
align with your goal and provide rationale. Choose one of the group of principles 1 to 6
in the CNO Code of Conduct Guideline (2019).
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9. Use literature and other ways of knowing to identify three specific, realistic, evidenced
based and consequential learning activities to address the learning goal. Include
deadlines for each learning activity.
10. Describe the plan to evaluate the expected outcome(s) of the learning goal; include
ways that the outcome(s) contribute to continuing competence.
11. Submit a summary of the learning plan using the format in appendix A and include it as
an Appendix in your paper.
12. Summarize key insights and learning points identified through self-reflection, scholarly
literature and gleaned from the completion of this assignment.
