Professional Portfolio Part 1: Goals for the transition to Professional Nursing

A portfolio is used as a measurement outcome and allows students to reflect on their academic experience, synthesize their accomplishments, and develop a plan for future professional growth. The portfolio will be divided into three parts.

Part 1 – Goals for Transition to Professional Nursing Practice.

In this section, you will write a 2-3 page paper in which you will identify your professional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. You will also develop professional goals. Developing a plan for your future career goals will layout the clinical and educational resources you need to be prepared for opportunities when they arise. In order to focus your goals, you will be utilizing two of the eight areas of Miller’s Wheel of Professionalism.

Write an outline of your goals, they can be clinical, educational, or both. What are your strengths, weaknesses, and current assets? Where you now and what opportunities or threats will aid or impede your progress towards your goals? How will you utilize your opportunities and deal with threats to succeed in your professional growth. Where you now and what opportunities or threats will aid or impede your progress towards your goals? How will you utilize your opportunities and deal with threats to succeed in your professional growth. What skills or educational requirements are needed to get you where you want to go?

State how you will accomplish these goals. What resources do you need to attain each step and how will those resources be attained. Resources may be funding sources, time resources, and/or commitments from your employer or family and friends.
Develop a time frame. How will you accomplish your goals in 3 or 5 years? How will you stay on track? You may decide you want deadlines for the completion of a phase of your professional development plan, or deadlines for the beginning of each step. However you set up the timeline, it is one of the most critical parts for keeping on track.
Outline for writing the first part of your portfolio is below

Part 1- Transition to Professional Nursing Practice

Professional Development

Personal History and career plans
Outline your goals:
Focus: Clinical, educational, or both
Time frame: 3 years & 5 years
Select two of the eight areas of Miller’s Wheel of Professionalism and relate them to your professional goals.
Indicate how you will accomplish your 3 year goal? 5 year goal? Include dates.
60%

Professional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Identify your professional strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Discuss how these may impede or help you progress towards obtaining your goal
30%

Spelling, Sentence Structure, Organization, and Grammar

10%

This activity aligns with:

Course Outcome  1. Integrate nursing leadership concepts and theories into the various roles of the professional registered nurse to promote safe and high-quality nursing care.

Course Outcome 2. Promote professional development for self and others, in order to advance the nursing profession.

AACN BSN Essential I.9: Value the ideal of lifelong learning to support excellence in nursing practice.

AACN BSN Essential VIII.6: Reflect on one’s own beliefs and values as they relate to professional practice.

AACN BSN Essential VIII.13: Articulate the value of pursuing practice excellence, lifelong learning, and professional engagement to foster professional growth and development.

Due Date
Nov 9, 2021 11:59 PM
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Criteria
Level 3
Level 2
Level 1
Criterion Score
Professional Development Plan
60 points
(42 – 60 points)
Personal history and career plans are well developed.
Professional goals are included, both short term and long term goals are clearly identified and relate to at least 2 of the 8 areas of Miller’s Wheel of Professionalism. Explanations of importance of goals are well developed and realistic. Clear steps how these goals will be obtained included. Completion dates are included for each goal and are attainable.
41 points
(22 – 41 points)
Personal history and career plans are somewhat developed.
Only short or only long-term goals are identified. Explanations of importance of goals are weakly developed. Steps to achieve these goals not clearly delineated. Some completion dates are included for each goal are attainable. 1 of the 8 areas of Miller’s Wheel of Professionalism are included.
21 points
(0 – 21 points)
Personal history and career plans are not developed. 0 – 1 short and long term goals included. Explanations of importance of goals are not developed or realistic. Steps to achieve these goals not included. Completion dates are not included for each goal and are not attainable. 0 of the 8 areas of Miller’s Wheel of Professionalism are included.
Score of Professional Development Plan, / 60
Professional strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats included
30 points
(21-30 points)
Included at least 1 each strength, weakness, opportunity and threat and how they may impede or help progress toward goals.
20 points
(11-20 points)
Included either strength weakness, opportunity and threat (not all 4) and how they may impede or help progress toward goal(s).
10 points
(0 – 10 points)
Included only 2 of these 4: strengths, weakness, opportunity, threat in PDP
Score of Professional strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats included, / 30
Spelling, Sentence Structure, Organization and Grammar
10 points
(7-10 points)
Excellent spelling, sentence structure and grammar throughout the paper. Excellent organization and easy to read.
6 points
(3-6 points)
Some spelling, sentence structure and grammar errors. Paper generally is readable. Some organization problems.
2 points
(0-2 points)
Many spelling, sentence structure, and grammar errors throughout the paper. Difficult to read with very little organization.
Score of Spelling, Sentence Structure, Organization and Grammar, / 10
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Total
Score of Professional Portfolio – Part 1, / 100 Criterion score has been overridden
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Overall Score
Level 3
70 points minimum
Level 2
36 points minimum
Level 1
0 points minimum
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