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Note: You may use the attached “Professional Development Plan Template” in the Supporting Documents section to complete this task.

A.  Develop your five-year professional development plan by doing the following:

1.  Discuss each of the goals in your professional development plan for attaining professional experience, academics, certificates or certifications, leadership development, or other important aspects of your career by including the following:

•   one-year (short-term) goals

•   three-year (intermediate) goals

•   five-year (long-term) goals

2.  Discuss the requirements needed to maintain your current certificates or certifications.

3.  Discuss the requirements needed to earn and maintain desired future certificates or certifications.

Note: If your organization does not require additional certificates or certifications, provide an explanation in part A3.

4.  Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired education.

5.  Discuss the requirements needed to achieve your desired work experience.

6.  Discuss how your professional development plan will allow you the opportunity to be a change agent within your professional practice, including specific examples.

B.  Discuss the importance of each certificate obtained in this course:

•   American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)

•   End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC)

•   One of the following additional certificates of your choice:

•   Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

•   How Nurses Can Help Prevent Child Maltreatment

•   Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Nursing Education (SOGI Nursing)

•   Caring Science, Mindful Practice

1.  Explain how you plan to use each certificate discussed in part B within your professional practice, including specific examples.

2.  Explain how each certificate discussed in part B support your professional development plan, including specific examples.

3.  Submit a copy of your completed additional certificate discussed in part B by scanning it in either a JPEG, PNG, BMP, or PDF file.

a.  Explain why you chose the additional certificate.

C.  Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.

D.  Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.