personal and professional growth plan

Just as GPS helps to guide your travels, having a personal and professional growth plan can help guide you on your personal and professional journey. Reflect on what skills you would like to enhance or develop and what goals you would like to achieve both from a personal and professional perspective. These can be short term, such as being able to make the perfect souffl or joining a professional nursing organization, or long term, such as writing a novel or achieving a doctoral degree.

• In addition to having a personal and professional growth plan, it is important to reflect on self-care strategies you utilize to take care of yourself. After reading the Williams et al. (2022) article , provide a brief description (12 paragraphs) of the self-care strategies you use or would like to explore to incorporate self-care as part of your work-life-school balance using supporting literature.
• Also, consider health equity and recommend one way as a nurse how you can improve health equity in your current nursing practice.

Following this units assigned reading and videos on developing a plan for personal and professional goals, use the SMART goals acronym to develop the following:

• Two personal short-term goals (to be achieved within a year)
• Two professional short-term goals (to be achieved within a year)
• Two personal long-term goals (to be achieved within 510 years)
• Two professional long-term goals (to be achieved within 510 years

Considering your goals:

• Identify two barriers in achieving your personal or professional development goals.
• Identify two strategies that can help you overcome barriers to professional development.

The assignment should be a Microsoft Word document in APA format (7th ed.) with a range of 23 pages, excluding the title and reference page, and must include the following:

• Correctly formatted title page
• Introductory paragraph on what your paper is going to address
• Discussion of why these goals are important to you
• Outline of your eight specific goals (download, fill in and then copy/paste the completed SMART template into your paper)
• Brief description (12 paragraphs) of the self-care strategies you use or would like to explore as part of your work-life-school balance, using supporting literature
• Correctly formatted APA citations and reference page
• Use of three (3) or more current, peer-reviewed scholarly references, correctly cited, to support your plan

Make sure to proofread your work before submitting. You may want to review the APA Student Paper Setup Guide to ensure that your paper is formatted correctly.