Professional Goals & Lifelong Learning Plan

Develop a plan for yourself for life long learning and continued professional development. The plan should include the following:

3 short-term goals for transition into practice

3 long-term goals for professional development

Include a specific plan that reveals how you anticipate reaching these goals, resources that you will use, and levels of nursing where you desire to be. Be sure to discuss how you will continue in your professional development throughout your career.

The goals should be timed, measurable, and realistic. Focus on the work environment that you hope to be in after you obtain your license and how this environment would help you to formulate your goals.

This is me: I am a graduating nurse. The work environment that I hope to work after I obtain my license is the nursing home. I love taking care of the elderly people. And soon I will proceed to the Bachelor Degree of Nursing while I am working at the nursing home.

In answering the 3 short term goal and 3 long term goal you put it in bulleted so that it is clearer to the reader. One of my short-term career goals consist of successfully passing the national board exam for the first time. Once this is accomplished, I hope to be work on a nursing home. I have chosen nursing home because I love working with the elderly population and also, as a starting point because this particular field will help me to develop my clinical skills. One of my long term goal is, I hope to be an active member in the profession of nursing, joining the American Nurses Association, attending seminars and lobbying for the advancement of nurses to prescribe medication independently. Hopefully within the next five years or so I will have a degree as an advanced practice nurse in the field of family healthcare and be working abroad and apply as a volunteer nurse in the United Nation (UN) to help those third world country's or country's under war like Iraq and Afghanistan. This country's needs UN nurses not just like soldiers but also nursing to help the sick who are disperse during war.