“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future…” – Yoda

Short term goals:

• Obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Jacksonville State University in the fall semester of 2023.
• Plan out my finances to pay for my Master’s degree in Nursing without student debt.
• Become a charge nurse.

Long term goals:

• Get my CCRN certification and move to the ICU setting for more experience with critical patients.
• Obtain my Master’s degree in Nursing and become a nursing professor at the university level.
• Build enough financial stability to make a happy life for a future husband and family to live in a loving house together with strong bonds.
• Retire at or before age 40.
• Travel to every country in the world, all 195.

Learning outcomes in nursing

Critical thinking – it reflects skills in reasoning, analysis, evidenced-based practice, and decision making. Critical thinking encompasses knowledge, skills, and values from the arts and sciences to provide safe and quality care to diverse populations. It integrates knowledge and skills in leadership, quality improvement, and safety in providing high quality care. Critical thinking examines the role of financial and regulatory health policies and their effects on health care systems.

Effective communication – reflects interpersonal relationship skills reflective of professional values/attitudes evidenced through effective written, oral and nonverbal communication, group process, use of information technology, and the ability to adapt communication to needs of the patient/family, colleagues, health care team and situation. Effective Communication reflects synthesis of communication and collaboration as an interprofessional team member to deliver high quality, safe patient centered care.

Professional Behavior – respect for all, a primary commitment to the patient, advocacy for the health, safety and rights of patients, responsibility and accountability for one’s own nursing practice, duty to self to maintain integrity, competence and professional growth, ownership of a healthy work/health care environment, contributions to the advancement of the profession, interprofessional collaboration, and the articulation of nursing’s values and the shaping of social policy.

How I have met these outcomes:

PEEP Assignment NU350 Ashley McGuire

Clinical Project Assignment NU423 Ashley McGuire