Your career planning occurs throughout your graduate masters education. At the beginning of graduate education planning includes taking time to talk and ponder the multiple opportunities advanced practice offers. There may be one specific direction you are headed toward or you may be interested in several. It is important to develop the skills that cross all graduate programs because these skills are deemed essential in all advanced practice positions.
Early in your graduate program it is helpful to list objectives related to skills you need to develop. Read the right hand column of this table for skills. On the left column there are various roles that are part of most advanced practice positions.
Throughout your graduate education you will need to access yourself against the skills you'll need to graduate. Skills Self Assessment can be done through peer review, advisory/instructor feedback. Prior to "send-off" or graduating you'll need to review the skills you've accomplished and determine how to illustrate these skills to potential employers.
Your goals can be stated as objectives. Objectives are statements that include specific behavior, skills or measurable terms that clearly describe your skills and abilities. Skills or capabilities you write in your objectives will include many of those in the columns of the Advanced Practice Role table.
Directions: This assignment challenges you to think in detail about your career planning by establishing specific and then long term professional goals. The educational requirements, personal goals, details of cost of living and planned out time lines for accomplishments should coincide with your professional goals and be written below. Click here to view an example completed by a previous graduate student (used with her permission). Another part of this assignment, if you elect to, is to make a budget for graduate school and a business card for advanced practice.
Prior to completing this assignment you may want to print out
this page by clicking the file menu, then click on print to list
the headings. This headings list will give you topics to think
about for your plan and ideas to discuss with others. To get
experience in career planning it is best to speak to or read
about others who have recently taken a similar "career
path." Specific information is required to complete this
assignment successfully. For you career planning below type in
exact details so you have a clearer idea of what you will need to
do to achieve your goal and carve out your own career pathway.
When you have typed in your final answers then click on the print
button at the end of the page and print your answers.