Self-Directed Learning Plan for Family Nurse Practitioner

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING PLAN
The Self-Directed Learning Plan (SDLP) is a process and document to chronicle your accomplishments and
learning steps through the graduate program and beyond as they relate to your professional goals.
The SDLP will help you to identify and target the array of competencies you need to reach your professional
objectives and to help you organize your graduate learning experience to suit your career objectives.
The SDLP will be a section of your Program Portfolio, so take some quality introspective time to consider
strengths and areas of development relevant to your career objectives. Knowing your strengths and areas to
develop, you can begin a plan to find out what you need to do to achieve your career goals. We encourage you
to continue to reflect on the identified areas throughout the program. If you feel a strength or development area
is no longer relevant, you may add another to take its place. At any time, you may also add additional areas.
Your Name: Date:
Anticipated Nursing Role: Family Nurse Practitioner
Professional Goal (3-5 years) from now: I want to deliver primary health care services in an efficient manner
to patients belonging to all age groups.
I intend to complete a master level program for nursing that will place due emphasis on clinical experience and
advanced practice instruction
I wish to acquire license and set up a private practice for providing care services to all patients, regardless of
their cultural or socioeconomic background.
Knowledge that prepares a graduate student for an advanced nursing role (minimum of three items):
1. Masters education prepares a graduate nursing student for the future role as an advanced treatment
practitioner
2. Prove a comprehensive information of relevant exploration literature related to a selected specialty field of
advanced nursing practice
3. Ability to examine key communal and political effects on the delivery of professional and advanced practice
nursing facility
4. Knowledge and assistances required for the sustenance of addition to practice and the growth of healing and
evidence-based treatment interventions in advanced nursing practice
5.Knowledge on the need for a culturally competent practice in advanced nursing.
Self-Directed Learning Plan

Skills that prepare a graduate student for an advanced nursing role (minimum of three items):
•The aptitude for seeking information, its retrieval and assessment
•Analytical and critical thinking skills
• Demonstration of an openness to novel ideas for pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
• Adequate capability to interconnect systematic knowledge, with the help of written, oral, and web based media
• Demonstration of professional leadership skills
•Ability of translating the collected evidences into practice (Poronsky, 2013)
•Building and leading effective collaborative practice among inter-professional care teams
Accomplishments that prepare a graduate student for an advanced nursing role (minimum of three
items):
1. Communication and relationship management
2.MSN degree
3.Knowledge of the contemporary healthcare environment (Spencer, Anderson & Ellis, 2013)
4.Abiity to successfully implement change management
5.Competence in demonstration of advocacy, ethics, career planning and personal and/or professional
accountability (Ares, 2014)
Strengths to Leverage
Step 1: The most effective and satisfied people align their work with their natural strong points. Identify 3-5 of
your key strengths (see Column 1 below); these could be a competency, skill, ability, knowledge area or
personal characteristic. Think about how you can leverage those strengths to be effective in your work, achieve
your professional goals, and become a leader in your profession.
Step 2: At the beginning of each course in your graduate program, answer the following question either using
this template or a narrative format. What do you expect to learn in this course and in your program that will help
you leverage your strengths? (See Column 2 below) Be as specific as you can, e.g., assume that a strength is
your analytical ability.
Step 3: Answer the following questions either using this template or a narrative format. Did you learn what you
expected to learn? (See Column 3 below) Was there information or insights that helped you that you didn’t
expect to learn at the outset of the course? What changes or additions, if any, will you make to your SDLP
based on learning in this course?
Step 1: Strengths to
Leverage
Step 2: Course Learning Goals Step 3: Course Outcomes &
Assessment
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