Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement Paper 5

Understanding your strengths and your areas of opportunity for improvement is invaluable to your growth. Your strengths are often behaviors, characteristics, and skills that are perceived positively. Doing these things well is advantageous as you work towards your goals. Understanding those behaviors, characteristics, and skills that you need to work on developing is equally important. They can be hurdles as you work towards goals, so they present an opportunity for improvement.

For this assignment, you will assess the strengths you already possess that can help you meet your goals and identify your opportunities for improvement. These elements are part of the Week 5 Final Project: Personal Development Plan and will be shared with your peers in the Reflective Thinking discussion forum next week.

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Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

Read the External and Internal Motivation webpage article.
Review your LCI assessment results.
Review tables 2.1 to 2.4 in Chapter 2 of the textbook for descriptions of each Learning Pattern.
Review the grading rubric.
Review the Week 2 Model Assignment.
Review the goals you created in the Week 1 assignment.
Be sure to review the feedback you received from your instructor on the Week 1 Creating your SMART Goals assignment, and use it to revise your goals, if necessary.
Need help? To learn how to access your assignment feedback, watch this video: Accessing Your Waypoint Feedback.

In a paper that is at least two pages in length, write about the following (be sure to add details, explanations, and examples to support your ideas):

SMART Goals (one paragraph):

Restate the two SMART goals you developed in Week 1.
Describe your motivation for pursuing each of these goals.
Three Strengths (one to two paragraphs):

Discuss three strengths that you possess that can help you reach your SMART goals.
Include examples to support each strength you identify.
Tip: Consider your overall strengths, or how your Learning Patterns can be a strength or an advantage. Even if your score is not Use-First, it could still be perceived a strength depending on the situation.

Three Areas of Opportunity (one to two paragraphs):

Discuss three areas of opportunities for improvement (i.e., obstacles or challenges) you must address to reach your goals.
Include examples to support each opportunity for improvement you identify.
Tip: Consider overall challenges that you face, or how your Learning Patterns can create challenges or be a disadvantage. Even if your score is Use-First, it could still be perceived as an opportunity for improvement depending on the situation.

Your paper should be double-spaced and written using Times New Roman 12-point font. Submit the final draft to Waypoint as a Microsoft Word document.
These are my numbers

Sequence-30
Precision-33
Technical Reasoning-24
Confluence-24

here is my smart goal

Date: May 24, 2020

Your Name: Brenna Norman

Directions: Complete the four parts of this document.

1. Write an academic SMART goal:

My main aim is to become a certified nurse by May of 2025. In order to complete this goal, I will first complete my BSN degree and then begin to complete hourly sessions at the local cancer center. My hours should be completed by the end of Autumn, 2025. Then I will apply and study for the certification test by the end of winter, 2021.

2. How the Academic Goal is SMART. Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement Paper 5

Specific Specific:

My goal is to become a RN nurse. I started my nursing career because of a car accident I was in. I want to be able to help someone like I was helped.. I want someone to look at me and say “ because of her I survived”. I want to be able to make a difference in patient’s care in a more relaxed setting. I plan on getting my certification after completing my BSN (Bachelors of Science in Nursing).

Measurable Measurable:

I plan on starting steps towards getting my certification once I have completed my BSN. I have to start with 1,000 hours of adult oncology nursing practice. I can do this by applying for a part time position and till working on my current unit part times as well. The next step is to complete a minimum of 10 contact hours of continuing nursing education.

Measuring the progress of my Smart Goal Plan will need me to keep a log of maintaining and recording communication events with patients as being “effective” or “not effective” for a 12-month period. These incidents to be measured are limited to interactions occurring during the administration of medications, discharge instructions and “end of life” discussions. The data collected will be analyzed in 3-month time intervals to evaluate the success of the goal. Improvement will be indicated by an increase in the percentage of effective communications events over time

Achievable Achievable:

I believe I will not be putting too much stress on myself by taking only one class at a time.

Relevant Relevant:

I plan on dropping back to part time at my current position in order to make my goal attainable without putting stress on me and allow me to help support my myself financially.

Time Bound Time bound:

I will achieve my goal of becoming a Nurse by May 2025.

Professional SMART goal:

My professional SMART goal is to improve my communication skills since it is a very important to provide good communication with my patients.. “Effective communication is a core skill for all healthcare professionals and nursing staff in particular since nurses spend more time with patients and relatives than any other healthcare professional” (Bramhall, 2014, p. 14)

3. What is the value of creating SMART goals?

It is important to create my SMART objectives because it allows me to have clear and decisive goals in correlation to my company’s business plan. The goal of the objectives is to determine what my company plans to accomplish in addition to providing a measurement for the needs of hiring, training, staffing, and how to accomplish proper morale. When setting specific objectives, we need to ask ourselves who, what, where, when, and why, such as: What am I going to do? Why is it important to do this task? Who is going to be involved? When do I want this task to be completed? How am I going to do this task?

My aim of creating SMART goals is more likely to thrive because the goals are precise, and employees know correctly what needs to be achieved. Using this method postulates a clear path for my organization and employees to follow by defining the moralities of the training plan. In an addition, I will consider using my company’s SMART goals since they provide a solid structure for measurement, allowing everyone involved in the organization to track their progress and accomplishments while identifying specific areas for improvement.

References

Bramhall, E. (2014). Effective communication skills in nursing practice. Nursing Standard, 14. Retrieved May 24, 2020, from https://search.proquest.com/openview/25fa168cc7fdb… Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement Paper 5