Developing Educational and Professional Goals

The purpose of this paper is to enable the student to reflect upon and examine his or her career path in nursing from the time they entered their first nursing education program until now, in order to formulate educational and professional goals that will be the focus of their learning in this BSN program. Consider the following quote:

Nurses can be whatever they want to be in nursing, and they can achieve

that goal at whatever level of quality they choose. The bottom line,

however, is that the profession will only be as smart, as motivated, and

as directed as its weakest link. If the nursing profession is to be the

powerful force it can be, it needs to be filled with bright, highly

motivated people who want to make a difference in the lives of the clients

with whom they work, as well as in the health care system itself.

(Huston, 2014, p. 319)