Assignment task: Plan for Professional Growth
Assignment Content:
Competency
Evaluate the importance of personal and professional lifelong learning, including the interrelationships of clinical reasoning and clinical judgment.
Student Success Criteria:
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Scenario:
You applied to move up the clinical ladder at your healthcare organization to establish your expertise in a level of practice. You recently enrolled in a BSN program, as this is the first requirement of the clinical ladder. Another requirement of the clinical ladder program is to develop a timeline for lifelong professional learning.
Instructions:
Evaluate your commitment to continued growth with clinical reasoning and clinical judgment and in a Word document, create a five-year plan for sustained professional growth. Include the following information in the plan:
o One-year post-BSN graduation
o Describe strategies you plan to use to maintain clinical reasoning and clinical judgment for the first-year post-graduation
o Evaluate the impact of the BSN on your practice, including examples, rationales, and evidence from credible sources.
o Two years post-BSN graduation
o Describe strategies you plan to use to expand clinical reasoning and clinical judgment within the setting you work, including examples and rationales to support the plan
o Three to five years post-BSN graduation
o Describe the types of formal and informal education you plan to use to maintain competency and develop as a lifelong learner, including examples and rationales to support the plan