Reflect on your interests, the clinical areas that you’ve enjoyed, and your goals for your career. For instance, your career goals may include bedside nursing, nursing management or advanced practice (nurse practitioner, nurse anesthetist, midwifery, etc.).

VAs you prepare to begin your nursing career, it is important to
have an idea of how you would like your career to unfold.
This assignment beqins with a reflection and an internet
search that will be developed into a Career Plan
that addresses each of the Grading Criteria listed below.
Assignment
1. Reflect on your interests, the clinical areas that you’ve
enjoyed, and your goals for your career. For instance, your
career goals may include bedside nursing, nursing
management or advanced practice (nurse practitioner, nurse
anesthetist, midwifery, etc.).
2. Identify two potential clinical specialty areas – two clinical
areas in which you can foresee specializing and focusing your
nursing career (e.g., oncology, pediatrics, mental health,
community, surgical nursing, etc.)
.
3. Consult the Johnson & Johnson (J & J) website (the link is
below) for information about those specialties, requirements
for those areas, certification information, and the associated
professional organizations.
4. With your career goals and two potential clinical specialties
in mind, search the internet for the J & J suggested
professional organizations and for other professional
organizations granting certification in those specialty
areas. List as many nursing organizations as you can. Note:
More than one professional organization may grant
certification in the same specialty area.6. Think about the information you’ve obtained: your goals,
potential clinical specialties, required education, qualifications
for certification, etc. How does this information impact your
preliminary career planning? What path(s) should you take to
accomplish your goals?
7. Must be 3 completed pages of content in APA Format,
7th edition. Your Title and Reference page do not count
toward your 3 completed pages.
Example:
If you are interested and/or skilled in technology, you might
consider nursing informatics as a clinical specialty. When you
consult the J & J website, you will find additional information
about this specialty – educational requirements, potential
salary, certification, nursing organizations, etc. How does this
impact your career plan?
Grading Rubric
Your Career Plan should include complete information about
the following four components. Points will be deducted if
components are missing or incomplete.
• Reflection – your interests, clinical preferences, career
goals, etc.
• Identification of at least two clinical areas of interest.
• Identification of nursing organizations offering
certification in your clinical areas of interest.
• An outline of your career paths) to accomplish your goals
Click here to link to the Johnson & Johnson Discover
Nursing website.