Discussion: Personal Mission Statement

Discussion: Personal Mission Statement

I aspire to pursue a graduate program in Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). I have been a registered nurse for 12 years with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Nursing. As a registered nurse, I interacted with and cared for patients across the lifespan with different medical diagnoses and healthcare needs. I always wished to have a higher degree of autonomy in my practice, similar to physicians, to implement interventions without asking a physician to intervene. The desire for autonomy steered my interest in pursuing an FNP program to acquire the knowledge and skills and get certified to be a primary care provider in my state.

In my nursing practice as a registered nurse, I had limited autonomy since the scope of practice does not allow RNs to diagnose, order diagnostic tests, and initiate treatment. I felt that I was restricted in my practice, and my potential was not fully tapped into. Therefore, I started exploring options that would increase my autonomy, similar to physicians.

FNPs in my state have Full practice authority, which motivated me to apply for an FNP program to practice independently. One of my professional goals is to establish a clinic where I will provide primary health care services to people in my town. An FNP course will equip me with knowledge and skills to serve this population since my scope will significantly expand upon obtaining an FNP certification.

Since I have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, it is important that I pursue my education further for career growth. My goal is to reach the highest level of education possible and motivate younger nurses to do the same through my academic achievement. For these reasons, I have chosen to enroll in an FNP program, which will provide an excellent platform to acquire advanced skills and interact with other FNPs.

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Question Description

Part 1

Leadership positions in health care are extremely demanding. We’ve discussed some aspects of the

challenge of leadership in health care in the text. From some of these initial discussions and experiences, I hope you’ve started to look deeply into your core values. So, this is your opportunity to put in writing what those values are and why they lead you to the path of health care leadership. Write a 1 page essay ( doubled space) explaining why you want to be a health care leader. At the end of your essay describe personal mission and vision statements for your career in health care.

Part 2

For this part of the assignment, you should identify goals for your personal and career life for at least two time periods (eg., 1 and 3 year goals or 2 and 4 year goals or 1 and 5 year goals, etc.). Your goals should be “SMART”: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time oriented (for details on what these criteria mean, make sure you review this information:https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goal…

You should identify at least 1 goals for each of the two time periods for both personal and professional areas (so that is 2 goals–1 personal and 1 professional by 2 time periods or 4 goals in all). Personal goals may relate to your plans for where you want to live, family plans, plans for hobbies or other outside work interests, etc. For each goal, you should include a sentence or two explaining why this goal is important or meaningful for your current or future personal or career development.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

• Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.
• Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.
• One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.
• I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Weekly Participation

• Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.
• In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.
• Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).
• Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

• Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).
• Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.
• I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6^th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

• I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.
• As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.
• It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

• For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.
• Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.
• Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?
• Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

• The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.
• Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.
• If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.
• I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.
• As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

• Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:
  • Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.
  • Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.