Career Goal: Nursing As you wrap up this Cornerstone course, you are about to e

Career Goal: Nursing
As you wrap up this Cornerstone course, you are about to embark on your own unique journey. Where you go will be dependent on your own circumstances, interests, and desires. It is up to you to think about what you want out of your education, your career, and your life going forward.
This week you will take what you learned in past modules about your academic and career future and meld that with the goal setting lessons from this week’s webtext work to create two action plans – one for your academic future and one for your career/professional future.
Step 1: Draft your Long-Term Goals
Begin by reading page 8.3 in the webtext about SMART goals and long-term goal setting. Follow the directions on those pages to come up with two long-term goals for your own life – one related to your academic future and one for your career/professional future. Follow the SMART framework outlined in the webtext to make sure each goal is: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely
Step 2: Create your Action Plans
Read pages 8.5-8.7 in the webtext to review a sample Action Plan and begin creating your own. Then go to the template Download the templatefor this assignment to begin filling in your two action plans using the chart provided. Delete the example provided there in red and fill it in with your own plan. You will need four short-term goals for each of your two long-term goals.
Your action plans should include at least one short-term goal that makes use of a resource on the Excelsior College Career Development (Links to an external site.)website. https://www.excelsior.edu/career-development/students/
Step 3: Reflect
Below your action plans, reflect on this exercise and your next steps. Respond to the following questions in a few sentences each:
Do the short and long-term goals I’ve laid out here match my interests, abilities, and values?
What questions or concerns do I still have about my goals? How can I work with others to resolve my concerns?
When I think about achieving these long-term goals, how do I feel?
How has my thinking about my academic and career/professional goals and plans changed during this Cornerstone course?
Resources:
Action Plan template Download Action Plan template
Excelsior Career Development (Links to an external site.)
Submit:
Make sure to submit the following in one document to the dropbox by Sunday night of Module 8. Use the Action Plan template Download Action Plan templateto assemble the final product:
A completed Action Plan for your SMART long-term academic goal
A completed Action Plan for your SMART long-term career/professional goal with at least one short-term goal that makes use of a resource from the Excelsior Career Development website
Short responses to each of the reflection questions
Evaluation:
This assignment uses TurnItIn.
This assignment is due by Sunday at 11:59pm ET
This assignment will be evaluated according to the IND301 Action Plan Rubric. Make sure to review to rubric before submitting so you know how you will be assessed.
This assignment is worth 5% of your overall course grade.
This activity is used to assess one or more general education career competencies (GECC). You will see additional rows in your rubric from your instructor along with assessments of Above/Meets/Does Not Meet Expectations for each competency. These rows do not factor into your grade.