A career in professional nursing requires an ongoing investment of critical thinking, time, energy, and lifelong learning. As you continue to develop your career, your overarching focus will be the achievement of your short term and long term goals. Just as you carefully and methodically developed a strategic plan for your organizational project, you will shape an ongoing strategic plan for your professional career. You will identify and implement proactive strategies to keep your goals on a positive trajectory. Learning opportunities, formal and informal, will add to your expanding bank of experience. Your options and opportunities within the nursing profession are almost limitless and include traditional and new ever- emerging roles. The goals established today and the plan created to accomplish them, will be reflected over the course of your career.
Upon successful completion of the course material, you will be able to:
Discuss the influence of professional development and learning activities on a nursing career.
Analyze goals for and challenges to professional development and lifelong learning.
Resources
Textbook: Leading and Managing in Nursing by Yoder-Wise
Website: American Nurses Credentialing Center
Background Information
Specific elements critical to a successful nursing career are highlighted in the assigned readings this week. Among these elements are the value of self-knowledge, the acquired skill of position assessment, and career development through experience, ongoing education, and mentorship. Active engagement in professional organizations, continuing education and scholarship, professional certification, and community service enhance competence and versatility in the workplace and often serve to expand opportunities for professional nurses.
Read Chapter 27 in the textbook, Leading and Managing in Nursing.
Explore professional certifications at the American Nurses Credentialing Center website at: https://www.nursingworld.org/our-certifications/
You can also find a listing of certifications available at Johnson & Johnson’s Discover Nursing website at: https://www.discovernursing.com/explore-specialties#no-filters
Identify a colleague or nursing professional who is an active member of a professional association related to health care or one who has attained a nursing certification. Navigate to the threaded discussion and respond to the following:
With this person, discuss his or her active experience in the professional association or his or her experience in becoming certified.
Describe benefits received in relation to being actively engaged in the association and/or possessing a professional certification.
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