Nursing is continuously advancing due to rapid changes in healthcare reform and interventions. These advancements require nurses to be lifelong learners who must keep abreast of the latest research, best practices, and competency standards. Professional development plans are essential for the future of nursing. These plans hold nurses accountable to their professional and educational goals as well as healthcare quality standards, ultimately leading nurses to become voices of change while providing quality patient-centered care.
In this task, you will develop a five-year professional development plan and discuss the three required certificates you obtained in this course.
A. Develop your five-year professional development plan by doing the following:
1. Discuss each of the goals in your professional development plan for attaining professional experience, academics, certificates or certifications, leadership development, or other important aspects of your career by including the following:
• one-year (short-term) goals
• three-year (intermediate) goals
• five-year (long-term) goals
2. Discuss the requirements needed to maintain your current certificates or certifications.
3. Discuss the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications.
Note: If your organization does not require additional certificates or certifications, provide an explanation in part A3.
4. Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired education.
5. Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired work experience.
6. Discuss how your professional development plan will allow you the opportunity to be a change agent within your professional practice, including specific examples.
B. Discuss the importance of each certificate obtained in this course:
• American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
• End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)
• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Nursing Education (SOGI Nursing) ( This is the additional certification that was chosen and completed.)