Professional Development Plan

Professional Development Plan

Professional Development Plan

• Write a 6–8-page professional development plan for your work as a nurse educator.
• Learning never stops for the nurse educator. Lifelong learning is necessary to stay current both in the practice world and in education. Nurse educators need to have a plan for their own continued professional development that will help them maintain and advance their skills both as nurses and as educators.
• The nursing profession needs nurse educators to educate more nurses, to introduce and educate about evidence-based practice changes, and more than ever, to join with our colleagues in other health care disciplines to exchange ideas and engage in interdisciplinary learning. As educators, we must continue to learn, be certified, and function at a high level to ensure continued growth for the nursing profession.
  
  

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• Write a 6–8-page professional development plan for your career as an MSN-prepared nurse. The professional development plan should include the following:
• Introduction: A brief introductory paragraph that clearly states the purpose of the paper.
• Area of focus: A description of your specific area of focus in nursing education, the position that you wish to obtain, and the educator competencies that you will need as an MSN-prepared nurse.
• Professional goals: A statement of your specific professional goals (a minimum of three) and discussion of their relationship to your nurse educator philosophy.
• Influences: A brief description of any additional forces (social, economic, political, or institutional) that may influence your nursing education role.
• Analysis: An analysis of how you will carry out scholarship activities as an MSN-prepared nurse and a specific plan for scholarship based on a model.
• Leadership role: A discussion of specific ways (a minimum of two) that you will develop a leadership role in your chosen area of focus.
• Development plan: Specific plans for professional growth and any additional education, certifications, or training to be acquired.
• Reflection: A reflection in a concluding paragraph on your abilities to meet goals and achieve your professional development plan and ethical practice.
• Additional Requirements
• Your assessment should meet the following requirements:
• Written communication: Written communication should be free of grammar and spelling errors that distract from the content.
• APA format: Use correct APA format, including running head, page numbers, and a title page. Citations and references (if used) are to be in correct APA format. Sixth Edition with doi’s documented. Need 5-7 current no older than 5 years
• Format: Submit your assessment as a Word document.

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.