Personal Professional Characteristics

Directions: Address each of the following statements separately. Please provide complete and succinct sentences. Many of the statements request discussions pertaining to actual events within your life experiences. These situations may or may not be health-care related experiences.

List your personal, professional, and educational goals. Identify what you want to accomplish and indicate the time frame for the accomplishment of your goals. Include at least one personal goal, one professional goal, and one educational goal.

Describe talents, aptitudes and gifts that you posses and describe how these will enhance your career in professional nursing.

Provide an example of how you cope with unexpected change.

Summarize those life experiences that have contributed to your interest in nursing as a career.

Describe how you envision yourself (as a professional nurse) practicing in the healthcare system in the next five years.

Illustrate how you have managed a stressful situation in your life.

Provide an example of your problem-solving technique.

Provide an example of how you are self-directed in learning and how you learn new material.