NURS-6003N Transition to Graduate Study Networking Opportunities
In this learning section, you’re starting to build the base for your success in both your studies and your career. It begins with creating a picture of what success means to you personally. Everyone’s idea of success may be different, but you don’t have to take the first steps by yourself.
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Walden University and the College of Nursing have their own goals and values that aim to help you achieve your vision of success. Your new academic community, including teachers, support staff, and fellow students, can also offer support. Additionally, professionals currently working in the field can assist you in clarifying your goals.
This part of the course wants you to think about how Walden’s and the College of Nursing’s missions and goals align with your own academic and career ambitions. You’ll start to identify people and groups who can support you as you develop your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan, which acts as a roadmap towards your goals. Lastly, you’ll explore the significance of networking and how it can aid in reaching your academic and career objectives.
Please note: Unless stated otherwise, initial responses to discussions are expected by Day 3, with follow-up responses by Day 6. You’re required to participate on at least three different days. This ensures ample time for everyone to engage with your posts, and timely responses to questions directed at you are also important.
Resources:
Make sure to review the provided learning materials before completing the tasks.
Access the resources through the weekly resources link.
To Prepare:
Review Walden and College of Nursing mission and vision statements, along with Walden’s goals, University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes.
Think about your own professional and academic goals within your program or specialization.
Consider how the information provided aligns with your goals and aspirations to become a scholar-practitioner.
Also, think about potential academic and professional individuals or groups you could collaborate with to support your journey as a student and a professional.
Reflect on the importance of networking and how it can contribute to your academic and professional success.
By Day 3 of Week 1:
Introduce yourself briefly to your peers, explaining how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and initiatives for social change relate to your academic and professional aspirations, and your journey to become a scholar-practitioner. Discuss how the MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives tie into your goals. Lastly, elaborate on why networking is essential and how it can assist you in achieving your objectives.
By Day 6 of Week 1:
Respond to at least two peers by suggesting additional individuals or teams you’d like to collaborate with or by sharing further networking strategies.
Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 1: Developing an Academic and Professional Network
Have you ever read Meditation XVII from John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions?
Unless you’re studying seventeenth-century poetry, you might not be familiar with this work. But you might recognize the famous phrase: “No man is an island…”.
As you embark on your journey towards academic and professional success, you have a fantastic opportunity to connect with academics and professionals who can support you along the way. This network can help clarify your vision for success and provide guidance now and in the future. To rephrase Donne, no one can succeed alone.
Start building your academic and professional network by identifying academic and professional connections and resources you need to collaborate with to excel in your MSN program and as a nurse.
Resources:
Review the provided learning materials before starting this task.
Access the resources through the weekly resources link.
To Prepare:
Think about individuals, departments, teams, and resources within Walden University and your profession that can aid your academic and professional journey.
Identify at least two academic and two professional individuals, colleagues, or teams that could support your success in the MSN program and your nursing career.
Download the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
The Assignment:
Academic and Professional Network
Complete Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template, ensuring to cover the following:
Identify at least two academic and two professional individuals or teams to collaborate with for success in your MSN program and nursing career.
Explain your choice of these individuals or teams and how they will contribute to your success in the MSN program and nursing career.
By Day 7 of Week 1:
Submit Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
Submission Information:
Before submitting your final assignment, ensure its authenticity by checking it through Turnitin Drafts from the Start Here area.
Save your assignment as MD1Assgn_LastName_Firstinitial and then upload it by clicking on Start Assignment and selecting Upload File followed by Submit Assignment for review.
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NURS-6003N Transition to Graduate Study Networking Opportunities
In this module, you begin laying the foundation for your academic and professional success. Your efforts begin with a vision that includes your own definition of success. Your vision may vary from those of your colleagues, but this does not mean you have to take these first steps alone.
Walden University and the College of Nursing also have a vision and mission, which include helping you to make your own vision a reality. Members of your new academic community, such as faculty, support teams, and fellow students, can also be helpful. Current practitioners and other member of the professional community can also help you to clarify your vision.
This Module’s Discussion asks you to consider how the Walden mission and vision as well as the College of Nursing’s mission and vision apply to your professional and academic goals. You will also begin to identify individuals and teams who can help you along the way as you begin designing the “blueprint”—your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan—that will guide you toward your own vision for academic and professional success. Finally, you will explain the importance of networking and how it can help you achieve your professional and academic goals.
Note: Unless otherwise noted, initial postings to Discussions are due on or before Day 3, and response postings are due on or before Day 6. You are required to participate in the Discussion on at least three different days (a different day for main post and each response). It is important to adhere to the weekly time frame to allow others ample time to respond to your posting. In addition, you are expected to respond to questions directed toward your own initial posting in a timely manner.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
To Prepare:
- Review the Walden and College of Nursing mission and vision statements, Walden’s goals and University Outcomes, and the MSN Program Learning Outcomes presented in this Module’s Learning Resources.
- Reflect on your professional and academic goals as they relate to your program/specialization.
- Consider how the information in these resources fit with your own goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner.
- Also consider academic and professional individuals and teams with whom you may collaborate in support of your efforts as a student at the university and as a professional within your organization and career.
- Consider the importance of networking and how it may help you achieve your professional and academic goals.
BY DAY 3 OF WEEK 1
Post a brief introduction of yourself to your colleagues. Include an explanation as to how Walden’s vision, mission, goals, and social change initiatives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Also include an explanation for how the Walden MSN Program Outcomes and perspectives relate to your professional and academic goals and to your becoming a scholar-practitioner. Finally, explain why networking is important and how it may help you achieve your professional and academic goals.
BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 1
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by suggesting additional individuals and/or teams with whom you wish to collaborate or by offering additional networking strategies.
ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PART 1: DEVELOPING AN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL NETWORK
When was the last time you read Meditation XVII of John Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions?
Unless you are a student of seventeenth-century poetry, you may not be all that familiar with this piece. However, you may be much more familiar with one of its well-known phrases: “No man is an island…”.
As you begin your journey toward achieving your academic and professional goals, you have a great opportunity to network with academics and professionals who can help ensure you do not travel alone. This network can help to clarify your own vision for success and can help guide you now and in the future. To paraphrase Donne, no one is an island.
Begin creating an academic and professional network by identifying which academic and professional connections and resources with which you need to collaborate to succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
RESOURCES
Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity.
Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.
To Prepare:
- Consider individuals, departments, teams, and/or resources within Walden University and within your profession that you believe can support your academic and professional success.
- Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals, colleagues, or teams that might help you succeed in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
- Download the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
The Assignment:
Academic and Professional Network
Complete Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template. Be sure to address the following:
- Identify at least two academic and at least two professional individuals or teams to collaborate with to be successful in your MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
- Explain why you selected these individuals and/or teams and how they will support your success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse.
BY DAY 7 OF WEEK 1
Submit Part 1 of your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Before submitting your final assignment, you can check your draft for authenticity. To check your draft, access the Turnitin Drafts from the Start Here area.
- To submit your completed assignment, save your Assignment as MD1Assgn_LastName_Firstinitial
- Then, click on Start Assignment near the top of the page.
- Next, click on Upload File and select Submit Assignment for review.
