Professional development 1 - Career planning

What is a career?

Continuous process of learning and development

Describe the 5 stages of a career

Learning - introduction to profession, first learning experience (ie being in nursing school)

entry - explore various employment options, keeping in mind their goals and strengths

Commitment - identify likes and dislikes, in terms of professional practice options, location and overall work life balance

Consolidation - become comfortable with choosen path and relationship between personal and professional dimension of career

Withdrawal - preparing for taking on a new role in nursing or going back to learning stage or retirement

5 Stages of donner wheeler model

A career planning and development process

visioning - What do I really want to be doing? Do you want to do what you are doing now? What do you want for yourself?

Assessing - who am I? What are my skills? How do others see me?

Scanning - looking outside yourself

planning - How can I achieve my career goals? What do I need to do this?

Marketing - how can I best market myself? to show people I have what it takes

it needs 4 flashcards

so this is the 4th