NU499M6-6: Apply clinical reasoning that reflects ethical and professional nursing values.
PC-3.5: Engage in career development and advancement strategies, including effective networking, mentoring, and creating a personal brand.
Career Vision Plan Essay and Professional Career Philosophy Statement
Now that you are at the completion of the BSN program, it is time to look ahead to your future career plans. In this assessment, you will be asked to develop an expository essay describing a Career Vision Plan and Professional Career Philosophy Statement.
The Career Vision Plan:
In essay format, discuss the following:
Plans for future career development:
What are your immediate, midrange, and long-term career goals?
Include a timeline with your description: this can be in the form of a table, chart, or other type of graphic representation.
Include a discussion of how you plan to reach each of these goals.
Plans for effective networking strategies:
Describe at least three networking strategies you will employ in your career.
Create a list of at least three individuals you plan to contact to start the networking process list job titles of these individuals.
Plans for mentoring strategies:
Who will you choose as a mentor and why?
Who can you mentor now that you are a BSN?
Discuss how you can create your own personal brand.
How will you market yourself to advance your career?
What attributes will you highlight about yourself in your personal branding?
Discuss how you can use this marketing to advance your career.
Part 2: Professional Career Philosophy
In this portion of the assessment, you will be writing your Professional Career Philosophy Statement. This is a 1- to 2-page statement in which you will describe how you plan to use your newly earned BSN to reflect the necessary ethical and professional values of the BSN-prepared RN. This should be written as a first-person statement describing how you are committed to these ethics/values and how you will reflect this commitment within your future practice. You must use 23 supporting resources. Consider addressing items such as:
Empathy and Caring
Teaching
Critical Thinking
Professionalism
Four Basic Ethical Principles
Autonomy, Beneficence, Nonmaleficence, and Justice
Truthfulness and Confidentiality
Dependability and Responsibility
Honesty and Integrity
Summative Evaluation Form and Phone Conference
At the end of this course, you will have a phone conference with your faculty. You will need to complete the Summative Evaluation Form (located under Course Resources) prior to that call. This form will be used to review the program outcomes with your faculty.
Contact your faculty when you have turned in the completed form and are ready to schedule your phone call.
Submit your assessment along with your Summative Evaluation Form to the Dropbox.
Minimum Submission Requirements
This Assessment should be a Microsoft Word (minimum 4-5 pages) document, in addition to the title and reference pages.
Respond to the questions in a thorough manner, providing specific examples of concepts, topics, definitions, and other elements asked for in the questions. Your submission should be highly organized, logical, and focused.
Your submission must be written in Standard English and demonstrate exceptional content, organization, style, and grammar and mechanics.
Your submission should provide a clearly established and sustained viewpoint and purpose.
Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful.
A separate page at the end of your submission should contain a list of references, in APA format. Use your textbook, the Library, and the internet for research.
Be sure to cite both in-text and reference list citations where appropriate and reference all sources. Your sources and content should follow proper APA citation style. Review the writing resources for APA formatting and citation found in Academic Tools. Additional writing resources can be found within the Academic Success Center.
Your submission should:
include a title page;
be double-spaced;
be typed in Times New Roman, 12 -point font;
include correct citations
be written in Standard English with no spelling or punctuation errors; and
include correct references at the bottom of the last page.
If work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned without being scored
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