Career and Personal Goals
My Five Year Plan...
In five years, I will be 27 years young. I hope to be working in a hospital on a floor that is challenging and changing every day. I wish that I will be headed towards graduate school or on my way to becoming a traveling nurse, depending on where life has me. I hope that the co-workers I have become close friends; I know the atmosphere that a person works in can make or break every day on the job. In addition, I hope to be able to precept a nursing student or be a clinical instructor. I would love to begin teaching students early on in my profession because my extremely long term goal is to become a nursing professor for a Medical/Surgical class.
1-3 Months
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- Continue serving in Haiti
- Return to the U.S. from Haiti
- Continue applying for nursing positions
- Prepare for interviews
- Follow-up with prospective employers about hiring
- Be offered and accept a nursing position
3-6 Months
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- Start new job and orientation
- Begin the novice nurse position
- Complete orientation
- Join a gym, church, and small group
- Start saving money and buy a car
- Learn to care for my patients holistically and to the best of my ability
- Become ACLS certified
6-12 Months
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- Find a nursing mentor
- Meet with nursing mentor once a month or more
- Become more comfortable and confident with my nursing position
- Make friends with co-workers and unit management
- Understand the culture of the unit
- Contribute to enhancing the unit's atmosphere
- Move into an apartment
12-24 Months
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- Take prerequisite classes for a master's program OR research traveling nursing organizations
- Take disaster training classes
- Train to be a clinical instructor or preceptor
- Go to Moldova with my Dad for medical missions
- Train for a sprint triathalon
3-5 Years
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- Begin applying to schools for their master's program OR begin applying for travel nursing jobs
- Continue to go to Moldova with my Dad for medical missions
- Start and finish a master's program for nursing OR become a traveling nurse
- Become a clinical instructor or preceptor
- Get involved with unit's administration
- Become a Charge Nurse
- Lead medical missions trip
- Become an expert at patient centered care
- Hopefully be married