Nursing is continuously advancing due to rapid changes in healthcare reform and interventions. These advancements require nurses to be lifelong learners who

Nursing is continuously advancing due to rapid changes in healthcare reform and interventions. These advancements require nurses to be lifelong learners who must keep abreast of the latest research, best practices, and competency standards. Professional development plans are essential for the future of nursing. These plans hold nurses accountable to their professional and educational goals as well as healthcare quality standards, ultimately leading nurses to become voices of change while providing quality patient-centered care.

In this task, you will develop a five-year professional development plan and discuss the three required certificates you obtained in this course.

REQUIREMENTS
Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. The similarity report that is provided when you submit your task can be used as a guide.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

Tasks may not be submitted as cloud links, such as links to Google Docs, Google Slides, OneDrive, etc., unless specified in the task requirements. All other submissions must be file types that are uploaded and submitted as attachments (e.g., .docx, .pdf, .ppt).

A.  Develop your five-year professional development plan by doing the following:

1.  Discuss each of the goals in your professional development plan for attaining professional experience, academics, certificates or certifications, leadership development, or other important aspects of your career by including the following:

•   one-year (short-term) goals

•   three-year (intermediate) goals

•   five-year (long-term) goals

2.  Discuss the requirements needed to maintain your current certificates or certifications.

3.  Discuss the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications.

Note: If your organization does not require additional certificates or certifications, provide an explanation in part A3.

4.  Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired education.

5.  Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired work experience.

6.  Discuss how your professional development plan will allow you the opportunity to be a change agent within your professional practice, including specific examples.

B.  Discuss the importance of each certificate obtained in this course:

•   American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

•   End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

•   Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Nursing Education (SOGI Nursing) ( This is the additional certification that was chosen and completed.)

1.  Explain how you plan to use each certificate discussed in part B within your professional practice, including specific examples.

2.  Explain how each certificate discussed in part B support your professional development plan, including specific examples.

3.  Submit a copy of your completed additional certificate discussed in part B by scanning it in either a JPEG, PNG, BMP, or PDF file.

a.  Explain why you chose the additional certificate.

C.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

D.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.

RUBRIC

A1:SHORT-TERM, INTERMEDIATE, AND LONG-TERM GOALS

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the learner’s goals.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of only 1 or 2 goals. Or the discussion is unclear or lacks essential details.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of each of the learner’s goals and includes essential details.

A2:CURRENT CERTIFICATES OR CERTIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the requirements needed to maintain current certificates or certifications.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to maintain current or desired certificates or certifications, but it is unclear or lacks essential details.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to maintain current certificates or certifications and includes essential details.

A3:FUTURE CERTIFICATES OR CERTIFICATIONS

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications, but it is unclear or lacks essential details. Or it does not provide an explanation that the learner’s organization does not require additional certificates or certifications.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications and includes essential details. Or the discussion includes an explanation that the learner’s organization does not require additional certificates or certifications.

A4:EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner's desired education.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner's desired education, but it is unclear or lacks essential details.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner's desired education and includes essential details.

A5:WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner’s desired work experience.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner’s desired work experience, but it is unclear or lacks essential details.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of the requirements needed to achieve the learner’s desired work experience and includes essential details.

A6:HOW YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN WILL ALLOW YOU TO BE A CHANGE AGENT

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not include a discussion about how the professional development plan will allow the learner the opportunity to be a change agent within the professional practice.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission includes a discussion on how the professional development plan will allow the learner the opportunity to be a change agent within the professional practice, but it is unclear or lacks essential details. Or the discussion does not include specific examples.

COMPETENT

The submission includes a discussion on how the professional development plan will allow the learner the opportunity to be a change agent within the professional practice and includes essential details and specific examples.

B:AMNH, ELNEC, AND ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATE

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide a discussion of the importance of the AMNH certificate, the ELNEC certificate, and the additional certificate obtained.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides a discussion of the importance of the AMNH certificate, the ELNEC certificate, and the additional certificate obtained in this course, but it is unclear or lacks essential details.

COMPETENT

The submission provides a discussion of the importance of the AMNH certificate, the ELNEC certificate, and the additional certificate obtained in this course and includes essential details.

B1:HOW THE CERTIFICATES WILL BE USED IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide an explanation of how each certificate discussed in part B will be used within the learner’s professional practice.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides an explanation of how only 1 or 2 certificates discussed in part B will be used within the learner’s professional practice. Or the explanation does not include specific examples.

COMPETENT

The submission provides an explanation of how each certificate discussed in part B will be used within the learner’s professional practice and includes specific examples.

B2:HOW THE CERTIFICATES SUPPORTS THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide an explanation of how each certificate discussed in part B supports the learner’s professional development plan.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides an explanation of how only 1 or 2 certificates discussed in part B supports the learner’s professional development plan. Or the explanation does not include specific examples.

COMPETENT

The submission provides an explanation of how each certificate discussed in part B supports the learner’s professional development plan and includes specific examples.

B3:COPY OF COMPLETED ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATE

NOT EVIDENT

A copy of the completed additional certificate discussed in part B is not provided.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

Not applicable.

COMPETENT

The copy of the completed additional certificate discussed in part B is provided.

B3A:WHY THE ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATE WAS CHOSEN

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not provide an explanation about why the learner chose the additional certificate.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission provides an explanation, but it is unclear or lacks essential details about why the learner chose the additional certificate.

COMPETENT

The submission provides an explanation with essential details about why the learner chose the additional certificate.

C:SOURCES

NOT EVIDENT

The submission does not include both in-text citations and a reference list for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list; however, the citations or reference list is incomplete or inaccurate.

COMPETENT

The submission includes in-text citations for sources that are properly quoted, paraphrased, or summarized and a reference list that accurately identifies the author, date, title, and source location as available.

D:PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

NOT EVIDENT

This submission includes professional communication errors related to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence fluency. For best results, please focus on the specific Correctness errors identified by Grammarly for Education to help guide your revisions. If you need additional assistance preparing your submission, please contact your Instructor.

APPROACHING COMPETENCE

This submission includes professional communication errors related to spelling, grammar, punctuation, and/or sentence fluency. For best results, please focus on the specific Correctness errors identified by Grammarly for Education to help guide your revisions.

COMPETENT

This submission demonstrates correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence fluency. You have demonstrated quality professional communication skills in this submission.