Career Goals
Discussion: Career Goals: Strengths and Challenges Related to Nursing Practice Competencies
An advanced practice nurse collaborates and communicates with patients, families, doctors, nurses, and specialists to ensure patients receive the care they need. As they diagnose, treat, manage, and educate patients, they are responsible for ensuring patient safety and maintaining ethical behavior. Competencies have been developed to help the advanced practice nurse to understand the practice knowledge, skills, and attitudes they need to be successful.
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For this Discussion, you will examine advanced nursing practice competencies and reflect on your strengths and challenges related to the competencies. In light of your reflection, you will consider how this course may help you attain your career goals or objectives.
To prepare:
Review the Learning Resources for this week, specifically the advanced nursing practice competencies. As you review the competencies, reflect on your own strengths and challenges when working with adults across the lifespan.
By Day 3
Post a summary of your expectations of this course. Also, include a brief explanation of your strengths and challenges as they relate to nursing practice competencies when working with adults. Describe any career goals or objectives this course may help you accomplish in the Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner (AGPCNP) role and explain why. Use your research to support your explanations by providing credible and scholarly sources.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days by offering a suggestion or resources to help your colleagues in addressing their personal strengths or challenges, or their career goals. Use your research to support your suggestions. Provide at least 3 credible and current scholarly sources.
Note: For this Discussion, you are required to complete your initial post before you will be able to view and respond to your colleagues’ postings. Begin by clicking on the Post to Discussion Question link and then select Create Thread to complete your initial post. Remember, once you click Submit, you cannot delete or edit your own posts, and you cannot post anonymously. Please check your post carefully before clicking on Submit!
Submission and Grading Information
Career Goals
I expect to learn various skills that promote quality patient outcomes. I look forward to improving nursing competencies such as scientific foundations, leadership, ethics, policy, independent practice, and technology information literacy. I believe improving my competencies will boost patient outcomes. Another expectation is to acquire skills that will enable me to land my dream job. I have always desired to work in a healthcare organization and show compassion to patients.
My strengths include using scientific foundations to make decisions and fostering quality leadership. I always strive to make evidence-based decisions. I have been fostering the strengths after I realized that patients are at risk if healthcare workers do not make decisions based on quality information (Friend, 2019). Conversely, my weaknesses include the application of ethical principles while taking care of patients. The ethical issues challenge my belief system and call for strict action. For example, one of the ethical dilemmas is disclosing confidential information about patients. I strive to improve on the weakness since I know it is critical to healthcare provision.
The career goals that I will accomplish is landing my dream job. Gaining skills is crucial in acquiring the qualifications required in the job market. The career will provide opportunities for networking and experience in my internship (Kim & Suh, 2018). It will help me to gain the skills necessary to land my dream job. For example, Family Nurse Practitioner skills such as ethical decision-making and communication are crucial in boosting my qualification as a nurse job applicant (Kim, 2018). For example, I need to improve skills such as critical thinking and conscientious compassion. The skills are crucial in the job market in taking care of patients and making decisions that will improve patient outcomes.
References
Friend, P. J. (2020). Graduate Nursing Education: Selecting the Right Program to Match Career Goals. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 24(6), 613-616.
Kim, H., & Suh, E. E. (2018). The effects of an interactive nursing skills mobile application on nursing students’ knowledge, self-efficacy, and skills performance: A randomized controlled trial. Asian Nursing Research, 12(1), 17-25.
Kim, Y. H. (2018). The Effects of Core Fundamental Nursing Program on Core Fundamental Nursing Skills Competency, Clinical Competency and Problem Solving Process. Journal of the Korean Academia-Industrial Cooperation Society, 19(9), 362-373.
