Professional Development Certification Assignment

Professional nursing organizations abound, with many catering to nurses in leadership positions, offering certifications, trainings, and networking opportunities. Due to their positions, nurse executives may feel somewhat isolated in their workplace. It can be helpful to join a professional organization, where people in similar roles can gather collectively to gain support, discuss new policies or initiatives, and work through problems. There is also power in such a group—power to effect real change.

How might membership in a nursing organization or professional certification help you as a nurse executive?

Throughout this course, you have been pursuing the professional development objectives you established for your practicum. This week, you examine your overarching goals beyond this practicum and consider how involvement in professional associations could benefit your development as a nurse executive. In addition, you assess how certification could contribute to your professional standing. Additionally, you complete and record all of your practicum hours this week via your Meditrek time log. Finally, you submit your Professional Portfolio by the end of the week.

Learning Objectives

Students will

· Analyze the purpose of obtaining certifications to support professional goals

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· Evaluate personal readiness for achieving practice certification

· Evaluate evidence that demonstrates professional growth for inclusion in a Professional Portfolio

· Assess changes in personal and professional goals and roles as a result of graduate nursing education.

Learning Resources

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Smith, C. M., & Johnson, C. S. (2018, May/June). Preparing nurse leaders in nursing professional development Leadership programs. Journal for Nurses Professional Development, 34(3), 158-161. https://doi.org/10.1097/NND.0000000000434.

Walden University Career Services. (n.d.-b). Resumes and More & more. https://academicguides.walden.edu/careerservicescenter/resumesandmore.

Organizations and Certification. http://www.aacn.org/wd/certications/content/Cnmlhome:PCMS?Menu=Certification

American Nurses Association. (n.d.). Leadership and excellence. http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessional Nursing/Leadership.

American Nurses Credentialing Center. (n.d.). Nurse executive certification (NE-BC). https://www.nursingworld.org/our-certifications/nurse-executive/

American Organization for Nursing Leadership. (n.d.). AONL credentialing Center Certification programs. https://www.aonl.org/initiatives/certification.

NMA. (n.d.). Home.https://www.nmal.org/

Nurse.org.(n.d.). List of nursing Organizations. https://nurse.orgs.Shtml.

Project Management Institute. (n.d.). Certifications. https://www.pmi.org/certification/what-are-PMI-Certifications.aspx.

Document: Guide to Creating the Professional Portfolio (PDF).

Document: Professional Portfolio Template (Word document).Professional Development Certification Assignment

The Professional Portfolio

As you conclude your MSN program, you may look forward to advancing your career and assuming a nurse executive role. Drs. Lynn Parsons and Jeanne Morrison offer advice for approaching the Professional Portfolio and give examples of its use outside Walden in an interview setting. (4m).

The Transcript

The Professional Portfolio

Program Transcript

[MUSIC PLAYING]

FEMALE SPEAKER: The professional portfolio is important because it’s not just

something that you’re telling them or writing on a resume, but you’re actually showing

documents that indicate what abilities you have.

Probably the biggest advice is to start early. You should have all the documents all

ready, except for a final reflection that’s going to be needed and the outcome evidence

chart. But all of your that you already have them. So what you’re doing is you’re

assembling the portfolio.

But the reason I say to start early is because you’re going to find you don’t have one of

them. There are ways to retrieve these. And one of the biggest ways is probably student

services or an instructor that you had previously, but you have to give them time. Don’t

wait until the end of the term and say, oh, I can’t find this document.

FEMALE SPEAKER: The other part of the portfolio and the most important part, I think,

is the table of contents because that literally will list everything that’s required in the

rubric. So if you follow your table of contents, you’ve got this. In the final portfolio beside

your table of contents, you’re going to literally just share your curriculum vitae or your

resume.

You’re going to list continuing educational units that you’ve achieved. And then you’re

going to do an outcomes evidence chart. And that, for some reason, students get

anxious. Don’t. There is a document within the course that we’ll share with you what we

expect in the program outcome evidence chart.

The other thing is that you’re going to write your final reflection. It’s your final reflection.

It’s what the Walden journey has been like for you in the nurse executive track. And

again, I get a lot of questions. What should I put in it? Should there be references? Only

if you want to have references. It’s your final reflection. And there is a document within

the course that helps guide the students on what they could put in the final reflection.

FEMALE SPEAKER: The final portfolio can be used in an interview process. Professional Development Certification Assignment The

person that you’re interviewing with can actually see the work that you have done, can

actually, look at what you have written down as your competencies and how these

assignments matched your competencies.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Emerging nurse executives have a breadth of accomplishments

that they’ve achieved. It would be impossible to try and bring all of them into an

interview setting. So the final portfolio is a document that the student can take with them

that shows the breadth of their work without literally listing for an interviewer everything

they’ve done.

So what I recommend to students is to take the final portfolio with you to your interview

and put it on the table. And as the interviewer asks questions, share some of the things

you’ve done. You can show them your work in the portfolio.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Make a copy of it. Leave it with them. And they will look at it,

especially if you’re going for a nurse executive position. So it just shows you put a little

bit more work into it and that you’re serious about the job.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Once you receive your MSN degree from Walden University with a

nurse executive credential, the sky’s the limit. And you just don’t have to be the chief

nurse officer. There’s so many other things that nurse exec track students can do and

accomplish. If you want, you can go start your own business and run a home health

care program, work in a hospice. You can be the director of an education unit in a large

teaching research facility. The possibilities are just endless.

FEMALE SPEAKER: Now that it’s the end of the practicum experience, I hope you

enjoyed yourself. Not only enjoyed yourself, but I hope that you learned a lot from this

experience. This is just the beginning for you. You’re going out now. You’re going to get

a job. And you’re going to be wonderful leaders. So congratulations.