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Self-introduction, My goals and Walden University vision, mission and social change

My interest and enthusiasm for nursing first took root and flourished from a research topic I presented in high school. The topic explored the importance of nurses and how the world can be a better place with more nurses. Researching the topic exposed me to the need for nurses, and it was then that I began to realize a desire to engage in the nursing profession as a way of caring for and serving others. I followed up on this interest and obtained my registered nurse practice qualifications six years ago. I currently work as a Clinical Care Leader, a position that has had me use my MSN qualifications. However, I have developed an interest in psychiatric nursing and would wish to develop my professional and academic career towards this direction. I believe that as a psychiatric nurse, I could empathize with the self-loathing, frustration and embarrassment that typically accompanies mental illness. I consider it a privilege to take care of these patients who are emotionally, mentally and spiritually broken, and feel as though they have nowhere to go. Besides that, I feel that the work involved will rarely boring as the patients include complex and difficult personalities who most people cannot deal with.  I shall integrate a social positive change to colleagues and community at large with the training taped from Walden University (Walden University, 2019). Although taking care of these patients will be heartbreaking, frustrating and exhausting, all at once, but also rewarding. In addition, I am looking forward to having a positive impact on my community and helping them get their lives back on track. How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals.

My dreams of practicing as a psychiatric nurse can only be achieved with the right education background. Towards this end, I intend to enroll for the MSN degree program offered at Walden’s University with a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner specialization. The institution’s mission and vision statements as well as goals indicate an intention to present graduates with the capacity to solve critical societal challenges and positively affect social change. These statements align with my intention to pursue a psychiatric nursing career (Walden University, 2020b). The MSN degree program is designed to allow to continue practicing as a nurse while attending school. Through joining the program, I expect to learn how to conducted assessment, diagnosis, provision of therapy, and medication prescription for persons with substance abuse problems, medical organic brain disorders, and psychiatric disorder. Also, I will acquire advanced skills and practicum training for treating families, groups, adults and children (Walden University, 2020a). In this respect, enrolling for the MSN degree program offered at Walden’s University offers me the opportunity to pursue my career objective of being a psychiatric nurse.

References

Walden University (2020a). Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) – Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Retrieved from https://www.waldenu.edu/online-masters-programs/msn-psychiatric-mental-health-nurse-practitioner How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals.

Walden University (2020b). Vision, Mission, and Goals. Retrieved from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=147&navoid=47257

Walden University (2019). College of Health sciences. Retrieved from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=149&poid=57398&returnto=48220

Discussion: Networking Opportunities

In this module, you begin laying the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision that includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.

Walden University and the College of Nursing also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other member of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision.

This Module’s Discussion asks you to consider how the Walden mission and vision as well as the College of Nursing’s mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams who can help you along the way as you begin designing the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success.

To Prepare:

• Review the Walden and College of Nursing mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this Module’s Learning Resources.
• Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.
• Consider how the information in these resources fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.
• Also consider academic and professional individuals and teams with whom you may collaborate in support of your efforts as a student at the university and as a professional within your organization and career.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post a brief introduction of yourself to your colleagues. Include an explanation as to how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Also include an explanation for how the Walden MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.

By Day 6 of Week 1

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by suggesting additional individuals and/or teams with whom you wish to collaborate or by offering additional networking strategies.

When beginning my path to becoming a bachelor’s prepared registered nurse, we were told in our Leadership course that having a BSN is a necessity as it will soon become par for the nursing profession. Now, almost ten years later, the same is being said of a master’s degree. After graduating with my BSN in 2011, I was hired to a Medical/Surgical unit. A year later I accepted a position in the Neonatal ICU where I have spent most of my career. In that hospital, it was a requirement that 80% of all newly hired nurses have a BSN or obtain one within five years of hire. More and more facilities are seeking Magnet status, which requires a degree from a large portion of their registered nurse leaders (American Nurses Credentialing Center, n.d., Nurse Leaders section). My employer’s higher expectations fueled my desire to obtain an advanced degree; however, the deciding factor was seeing the advanced practice registered nurses in action within the Urgent Care setting. The Family Nurse Practitioners, whom I now have the pleasure of working with, show their knowledge and love for patient care on a daily basis.

The reasons for which I chose to attend Walden University were twofold. First, I had to research which nursing programs the state of Washington would allow clinical placement and, after graduation, licensure. The list had many choices, but my decision ultimately came after reviewing Walden’s background, which led me to my second reason for choosing this university for graduate study- aligned goals and outcomes. Because life is so busy, I needed “a distinctively different 21st-century learning community” so that I could obtain a master’s degree while also attending to the demands of everyday life with a family and career (Walden University, 2020a). I believe that having a university and instructors who genuinely care about me and the learning that takes place on an individual level will set the stage for success after graduation.

Professional & Academic Goals and Outcomes

 I have wanted to be a nurse since I was in high school. I always knew that caring for vulnerable populations was a work that I had been called to do, in the best way that I could. What better profession to do that than in nursing? Earning a BSN was difficult work, but I craved knowledge and enjoyed learning and understanding the health and illness processes and caring for not only the disease but also the person. It became important to me to learn from credible sources and search for unbiased information to build my thoughts and opinions. I wanted to be the nurse who cared for any person with love and understanding, regardless of their background or circumstances. Choosing to study and obtain a master’s degree through Walden University made sense on so many levels. Knowing that the Family Nurse Practitioner program was one where all of my own feelings matched the program values was important because it means that when all is said and done, I can expect to feel prepared and knowledgeable when providing evidence-based care to my patients (Walden University, 2020b). This is not only important for me as a future provider but for all those to whom I will give care.

References

American Nurses Credentialing Center (n.d.) Magnet recognition program. Application Process. Eligibility Requirements. Retrieved June 2, 2020, from https://www.nursingworld.org/organizational-programs/magnet/application-process/

Walden University (2020a) Vision, Mission, and Goals.  Retrieved June 2, 2020, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=172&navoid=59420

Walden University (2020b) Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). Retrieved June 2, 2020, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=172&poid=67151&returnto=62482

Module 1 (Week 1): Networking for Academic and Professional Success

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Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). The Foundation of Success [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: The Journey Begins [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Laureate Education (Producer). (2018). The Walden Journey to a Masters in Nursing: Networking and Collaboration [Video file]. Baltimore, MD: Author.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze relationships among Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives to professional and academic goals
• Analyze the relationship between MSN program outcomes and perspectives to professional and academic goals
• Identify academic and professional collaborators for academic and professional success
• Identify concepts for Walden student readiness
• How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals
• Identify individuals or teams to collaborate with for success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse

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Learning Resources

Required Readings

Nurse.org. (n.d.). List of nursing organizations. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://nurse.org/orgs.shtml

Schmidt, K. (n.d.). 5 reasons nurses should engage in professional networking [Blog post]. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://blog.bluepipes.com/5-reasons-nurses-should-take-professional-networking-seriously/

Walden University. (n.d.). Connect to Walden. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://www.waldenu.edu/connect

Walden University. (n.d.). Walden University catalog. Retrieved October 4, 2019, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu

 

Select College of Health Sciences, then Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). Review the MSN Learning Outcomes on this page.

Walden University. (n.d.). Walden University catalog. Retrieved October 4, 2019, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu

 

Select Introduction, then review the vision, mission, and goals.

Walden University. (n.d.). Writing center. Retrieved November 14, 2018, from https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter

Wofford, P. (2018). 10 networking tips for nurses who hate networking. Retrieved from https://nurse.org/articles/tips-for-nurse-networking/ How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals

Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template (Word document)

Discussion Posting Exemplars (PDF)

Discussion: Networking Opportunities

In this module, you begin laying the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision that includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.

Walden University and the College of Nursing also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other member of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision.

This Module’s Discussion asks you to consider how the Walden mission and vision as well as the College of Nursing’s mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams who can help you along the way as you begin designing the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success.

To Prepare:

• Review the Walden and College of Nursing mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this Module’s Learning Resources.
• Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.
• Consider how the information in these resources fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.
• Also consider academic and professional individuals and teams with whom you may collaborate in support of your efforts as a student at the university and as a professional within your organization and career.

By Day 3 of Week 1

Post a brief introduction of yourself to your colleagues. Include an explanation as to how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Also include an explanation for how the Walden MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.

By Day 6 of Week 1

Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by suggesting additional individuals and/or teams with whom you wish to collaborate or by offering additional networking strategies.

Submission and Grading Information

Grading Criteria

To access your rubric:

Week 1 Discussion Rubric

Post by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6 of Week 1

To participate in this Discussion:

Week 1 Discussion

Quiz: Walden’s Student Readiness Orientation

You probably have a lot of questions (and perhaps some hesitation) about the journey you are undertaking. How do I navigate the online classroom? How can I have access to a library in this environment? The Student Readiness Orientation (SRO) minicourse available on your MyWalden page provides answers to such questions and helps ensure you understand how to navigate the online classroom and utilize the many resources available to you as a student at Walden.

The Readiness Check will help you determine your prepardness for navigating the online classroom.

The questions presented on the Quiz are derived from the readiness check presented in the SRO.

Click on the Week 1 Quiz link after you have read the directions carefully.

The readiness check includes 15 questions in various formats including true/false and multiple choice. If you score 12 or below, please retake the exam. You may retake the exam as many times as you would like in order to achieve your desired score. Your highest score will be recorded. To retake the Quiz, click on “Take Test Again” (this does not appear as a hyperlink but works as a hyperlink when you click on the area).

To view the questions you answered correctly and incorrectly, click on your score in the “My Grades” area.

To Prepare:

• Review the Walden’s SRO found on your MyWalden page.

By Day 7

Complete the quiz.

Submission and Grading Information

Submit Your Quiz by Day 7 of Week 1

To submit your Quiz:

Week 1 Quiz

Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan
Part 1: Developing an Academic and Professional Network

When was the last time you read Meditation XVII of John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions?

Unless you are a student of seventeeth-century poetry, you may not be all that familiar with this piece. However, you may be much more familiar with one of its well-known phrases: “No man is an island…”.

As you begin your journey toward achieving your academic and professional goals, you have a great opportunity to network with academics and professionals who can help ensure you do not travel alone. This network can help to clarify your own vision for success and can help guide you now and in the future. To paraphrase Donne, no one is an island.

Begin creating an academic and professional network by identifying which academic and professional connections and resources with which you need to collaborate to succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.

To Prepare:

• Consider individuals, departments, teams, and/or resources within Walden University and within your profession that you believe can support your academic and professional success.
• Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals, colleagues, or teams that might help you succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
• Download the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

The Assignment:

Academic and Professional Network

Complete Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template. Be sure to address the following:

• Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals or teams to collaborate with to be successful in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
• Explain why you selected these individuals and/or teams and how they will support your success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse. How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals

By Day 7 of Week 1

Submit Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

• Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK1Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
• Click the Week 1 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
• Click the Week 1 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.
• Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK1Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.
• If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
• Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.

Grading Criteria

To access your rubric:

Week 1 Assignment Rubric

Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity

To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:

Submit your Week 1 Assignment draft and review the originality report.

Submit Your Assignment by Day 7 of Week 1

To submit your Assignment:

Week 1 Assignment

Networking Opportunities

A Registered Nurse was not on my list of things I wanted to be when I grew up. I became a Medical Assistant first because I needed a stable job that was not in a factory. I’m from a small town in Georgia and most people there work in carpet mills. I wanted something different. This change in profession sparked a fire in me. This was when I discovered my love for the medical field. College was a scary idea for me because I was a high school dropout and could not believe that I could do it. I was lucky to have family that believed in me more than I believed in myself. In 2011 I graduated with my Associates in nursing. This is when my adventure in nursing began.

My nursing career first started on a renal floor and from there I took notice that nursing had a broad field of needs. When I moved to Detroit, I had the desire to broaden my skills and that is when I stepped into the ER. This is where I found my home. The ER opened a true understanding of serving the community for me. Then with time, experience, and a growing need to be the best nurse I could be has led me to pursuing my masters.

When deciding on which school to pick I felt a bit overwhelmed. Undergraduate scared me and here I am jumping into the deep end of graduate school. Then I ran across Walden University. Walden’s vision hit home when I read “the degree that it can be applied by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good”,  (Vision, Mission, and Goals, 2020, Vision section). This statement encouraged me to delve deeper in what Walden had to offer. How Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to professional and academic goals

Walden University offered things that aligned with my goals and the flexibility I needed to be successful in my pursuit to becoming a better nurse. I kept debating on what program to pursue because I had several friends who were looking to be Family Nurse Practitioners. This just didn’t feel like a good fit for me. While looking at the list of programs one stuck out to me. The Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Program that had a RN track. This track along with outcomes that are practical and that can be applied within my professional development is what I was looking for. The MSN learning outcomes such as, “exhibit ongoing commitment to professional development and value of nursing theories/ethical principles (altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, social justice) in accordance with ethically responsible, legally accountable, specialist nursing practice”, (Master of Science in Nursing, 2020, Outcomes section) is what helped me choose Walden University. It aligned everything I was looking for in a program.

The path that I am pursuing has brought me to connect with people who can help me achieve my goals. Unknowingly I had been networking my entire career. I am an inquisitive person that loves to meet people in different aspects of the health care field. This has led me to making connection that I can call on to help while in the program. The article 5 Reasons Nurses Should Engage in Professional Networking states, “every professional connection should be based on interactions that involve knowledge sharing and mutual professional development”, (5 Reasons Nurses Should Engage in Professional Networking, n.d., para. 5) and here I thought I was just making friends.

The advancement of my career is important to me and choosing the right college was imperative. The goals and outcomes are in coordination with my desires of becoming a better nurse that can inspire and affect change in my community. Walden University has developed an all-inclusive environment to help me succeed in my academic endeavors such as, writing center, library, online resources, and professional development resources.

In conclusion having a strong desire to better myself through education so that I can promote change in my community will become reality. I must stick to my path and utilize the resources at disposal and continue to professionally network to  have the support I need.

References

5 Reasons Nurses Should Engage in Professional Networking. (n.d.). Retrieved June 3, 2020, from https://blog.bluepipes.com/5-reasons-nurses-should-take-professional-networking-seriously/

Master of Science in Nursing. (2020). Walden University. Retrieved June 3, 2020, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=172

Vision, Mission, and Goals. (2020). Walden University. Retrieved June 2, 2020, from https://catalog.waldenu.edu/content.php?catoid=172

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