The nature of professional goals

Nursing

With the intention of providing a wider scope of health care services to a more diverse group of patients, I seek admission to the Post Masters Nurse Practitioner Program. The extensive clinical experience the program offers will perfectly supplement my current professional position, optimizing my talents and expanding my expertise within the field of psychiatric nursing. Applying nursing theory to practice, I will work within the optimal professional parameters that will promote my career goals. Those goals include both short-term and long-range plans that involve improving quality of care within my community.

The ability to work within my home community is critical for me on a personal level, as I am already knowledgeable about the local resources available. As I work in the rigorous Post Masters Nurse Practitioner Program I will be developing a more in-depth understanding of the unique needs of the community, its demographics, and its health care resources and personnel.

During the course of the program period, I hope to develop the professional contacts that will improve my ability to help community members in need. I intend to work with team members on improving quality of care and access to care. The program will help me become familiar not just with the practical daily application of nursing theory to practice; I will also become more aware of the community resources available to patients.

Therefore, I will be able to provide the best possible outreach consultation and help my clients achieve optimal health within the local system. Knowing the limits and potential of that system is critical to being able to aid patients. I want to be able to help patients who may be destitute or in need of ancillary services to know how and where to apply for that aid. Similarly, I want to be able to work with new members of the community who may not have any tools or support network available to them. This is one of the many reasons I look forward to being able to work within my own community. Nurses are at the forefront of community outreach and community betterment. As I get to know the local physicians, administrators, and program leaders, I can become a more effective member of the health care community.

In the future I intend to serve my community in a position of leadership, as a coordinator for healthcare services. I want to apply family systems theory to my nursing practice, because I see a growing demand for more collaborative methods of intervention that support rather than deny the role of family systems. With a great sensitivity to diversity in terms of religion and culture, I will be of great service to the local patient population.