Short and long term career goals: o Short term: finish MSN within the next few months. o Possibly long-term career goals continue into DNP or even go for MBA route.

I essentially need all this information put together into a paper. I am not good at wording things correctly. I am applying for succession planning and the part I need to do is the essay about myself. I have attached the application so you can reference it. I have also attached the below information in a word doc as well as sometimes copying and pasting it gets messed up. You will need to complete a brief essay indicating why you would like to participate in this program. The essay should be no more than 2 pages and include the following: • Short and long term career goals: o Short term: finish MSN within the next few months. o Possibly long-term career goals continue into DNP or even go for MBA route. o Continue to help with the expansion of the pediatric unit by bringing any previous education and knowledge I have from previous employment with me. • Your greatest strength o the care i provide every day to my patients. I treat every patient with the same respect and as if they are my own family. It is the job I do truly love. o Lot of strong experience from previous employment working both as a staff and within management within a trauma center in both the pediatrics ER which was a level 2 trauma center and cross-trained to a LEVEL 3 NICU. Having those several years of experience, and bringing to this community hospital, often I am phone with advice. • An area of opportunity for improvement o Formyself:seeinghowthingsarehere.Comingfromalargerhospital,backtoa community hospital, on a leadership side, being part of several pediatric monthly meetings and seeing how things are run, or trying to update things, it flows different. So for myself, my srea of improvement would be to take a step back, and want to learn management at this organization. o For pediatric: Building new in-patient pediatric center essentially from the ground up. Seeing room for so much improvement.

From when I previously worked here as an emergency department technician from there to now, I have seen this pediatric ED go from a 11a-11pm staffed RN to now 24/7 staffed RN. § With RVS season, I was able to help educate last year during the pediatric respiratory surge with the use of opti flow as that was something we did on the regular at my previous employer. § Right now, our broseloew code cart, our emergency department educator, respiratory, and myself have been working closely for months to update. This is a large area for improvement for the safety of improvement. § More education and hiring of more staff as well once the new center opens. • Career/personal accomplishments to date o Being part of the medical field was never a question for me. I became a volunteer EMT at the young age of 16 for my town. o My biggest personal accomplishment to date as ever been graduating nursing school. § I graduated Magna cum laude. § At this hospital received the Daisy Award, and the nurse excellence award. § Numerous of patient letters. Over 300 hours of Preceptor time in Pediatrics ED of new hires. I am relied upon within the department. I am upon called all hours of the night when off duty by other fellow coworkers for advice in certain situations, or where supplies are kept that certain coworkers that do not often float to pediatrics ER.