APN Professional Development Plan Paper Yudemis Rodriguez Chamberlain University NR510

APN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2 Introduction to the APN professional development plan Regardless of ones’ career path, a professional development plan is imperative for an individual to set goals, develop a plan and schedule a timeline to achieve them (Perry, 2017). The famous saying by Winston Churchill “if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail” (Treiger, 2016) can be directly applied to someone’s career. A professional development plan can provide a visual outline and help to identify current and future needs, resources needed, and to help ensure goals are always met. Relative to the authors current nursing care and the development of the nursing process, goals are established, and later, “care” or in this case, goal achievement is