C493: Leadership and Professional Image

A: Professional mission statement and summary
A1: Creating a professional mission statement
To be a compassionate nurse who strives to grow and learn every day to make health care
for her patients and the medical professionals better and more efficient.
A1a: How the mission will guide my nursing career
My personal mission statement will help me go towards the direction of continuing my
education. This also means that I utilize my time reading evidence based research and help my
facility implement better practices that help both the staff and the patients. My mission will also
help and motivate me when I am feeling stressed and burned out from work. It will help pick me
up and motivate me to get back in the field.
A2: Professional summary
A2a: How artifacts represent me as a learner and a healthcare professional
There are many artifacts I completed during this course that represent me as a learner and
healthcare professional. In C349 (Health Assessment), I was a learner because I learned some
assessment skills that I did not learn properly before and some skills that were not required at my
work. By learning those new assessment skills, I broadened my education to help me go forward
in my job. It represents me as a healthcare professional as well because when I was doing the
head to toe health assessment on my simulated patient Tina, I showed my professional skills and
applied my knowledge of the systems to ask her the right questions to understand all her health
problems.
In the course C820 (Professional Leadership and Communication for Healthcare), I
learned about