1. What are your goals for the next 6 months? 3 years?
10 years and how do you plan on achieve those goals?
In the next six months I plan on graduating, studying and passing my NCLEX. I also plan on applying and starting versant for Baptist Hospital to build my foundation for my nursing career. In 3 years, I will attend Miami Dade College to further my education and receive my BSN. In 10 years I hope to be a CRNA.
2. What professional/nursing organizations do you belong
to? I do not belong to any organizations currently but I have plans of applying to some in the near future.
3.What are the Standards and Scope of Practice of Nursing
in your future specialty/career? Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations
4. What are the requirements to be certified in your future
specialty? In order to be a CRNA I need two years ICU experience. Depending on the program I want to attend will determine what actual ICU I can join. I also need to go back to school for my masters.
5. How do you plan to achieve the certification?
I plan to achieve these certification by passing my boards, and gaining experience on the floor. After that, I will begin to acquire the certifications and enter the ICU to acquire my experience there. Then I will apply to the master’s program.
6. Which professional certification/s do you hold i.e. BLS,
ACLS, PALS, etc.? I hold my Certification of Nursing Assistant and Basic Life Support (BLS).
7. Which professional certification/s do you plan to
obtain in the next 6 months? My plan is to achieve getting the PALS or ACLS certification within the next 6 months. 8. Have you participated in a professional activity? If so what have you done? I have participated in Relay for life, and I have also done community service hours at nursing homes helping the elderly with their activities of daily living.
9. Do you see any advantages to belonging to this
organization? Yes, I found it convenient that is the only nursing organization representing ALL of nursing regardless of specialty or practice area.