The nursing field is a vast one; to pick a definite career path would almost be hard.  Going through the registered nursing program in LaGuardia Community College, I was fortunate to have professors that not only taught the curriculum, but they taught with passion and care for their students.  Also, the different observational rotations that were mandatory in each section helped me in creating an outline for my short term and long term professional goals.

            My short term goals include continuing my education; I hope to enter a Bachelor’s degree program by Spring 2010 in New York University.  After which I would like to find a position as a staff nurse on the Medical Surgical floor of a magnate hospital.  After working on a Medical Surgical floor for 2 years; I would then like to work in the operating room as a scrub nurse.  During my operating room rotation in Medical Surgical 1; I quickly found that was very interested in working in the OR. 

            As I work, I plan to continue academically towards my Master’s Degree in Nursing Education.  This is because as I student I found that I was able to understand what I was studying more when I “teach” other students.  Also, there have been professors that I’ve met that have been so supportive of me and who truly care about me as a student, I would also like to be able to someone like that for a student one day.  My long term goal is to obtain my Master’s Degree in Nursing Education and become a nurse educator; possibly at LaGuardia Community College.

            There’s a famous quote that I read once, “life gets in the way as you are making plans”, meaning as much as we plan for our future, there will surely will be bumps in the road.  With the economy as bad as it is, it would also be prudent for me to try to obtain a job as soon as possible after I obtain my BSN (Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing) since I have heard it increasingly hard for newly graduated Associate Degree nurses to find a job.  The short and long term goals I have made for myself are in a rough outline, with the exception of when I plan to re-enter school again in Spring 2010; I have tried to keep my long term goal realistic but not concrete in time frame until my short term goals has been achieved.