NURSING Professional Goals

NURSING Professional Goals

Developing professional goals is critical to guiding your career and transitioning to become a practicing NP. The goals that you develop should be SMART. SMART goals are: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-specific (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Human Resources, n.d.). Keeping your goals SMART will increase your chances of meeting or exceeding your professional career goals. NURSING Professional Goals

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For this Assignment, you will identify three short-term and three long-term goals. You also will explain how each goal relates to your professional career development and how you might achieve each of these goals.

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Human Resources (n.d.). SMART goals. Retrieved from

To prepare:

Review the SMART Goals Learning Resources

Consider professional goals that you might select to help focus on your transition from RN to NP practice.

By Day 7

For this Assignment, write a paper that is no more than 2 pages long that addresses the following:

Identify at least three short-term goals (1-2 years)

Identify at least three long-term goals (3-5 years) NURSING Professional Goals

Explain why you selected each goal and how they relate to your professional career development

Create a strategic plan that explains how you might achieve each of these goals

Measuring Quality

Be sure to review the Discussion Board grading rubric in the course Syllabus.

For this Discussion Board, a minimum of 300 words is required for the initial response and a minimum of 150 words for responses to your classmates.

During this unit, you will discuss the following three questions:

  1. Why is there a need for risk adjustment in health care quality measures?
  2. What is variation and how is it measured?

What are things to watch out for in designing and administering a survey instrument? NURSING Professional Goals