Nursing Career Map

Footsteps

RN LICENSE AND BSN!

Beyond, beyond

Depending on application requirements at each site, start applying for jobs or following through on submitted applications in the New York City/Long Island area.

• Goal: To be selected for a Nurse Residency program to gain more experience and skills
• Goal: Keep in touch with professors for letter of recommendation/references needed for job application
• Goal: Attain a job as an RN on a med-surg floor
• Goal: Save money for a car!
• Value: Choose the hospital to work at wisely, based off of the ability to transfer to a different unit/hospital, good working environment, and benefits

New Year, New Me

21-23

At this point in my journey, I will have attained a number of different experiences and made incredible memories.

• Goal: How much do you make? Make a difference.
• Goal: Savings and retire from nursing practice and perhaps purse a career in teaching other nurses or science based course (anatomy and physiology, chemistry...)
• Goal: Maintain personal relationships
• Goal: Audit classes.
• Value: Never stop learning
• Value: Give back to those that have given me so much

At this point, I will have been selected for a Residency opportunity or accepted a job offer in my region!

• Goal: Start saving money! (401K) and repay loans...
• Goal: Work on a med-surg floor and apply to transfer into the ER (Ideally at North Shore LIJ Medical Center or Lenox Hill)
• Goal: BCEN (Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) offers an exam that lead to the Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) designation), ACLS/BCLS, pursue certification in American Sign

Language for Interpretation Services

• Goal: Get involved in ANA and Sigma Theta Tau
• Goal: Take a class online to continue education
• Value: Stay close to home, desire to travel, and

possibly live in NYC in my twenties

• Value: Fast-pace working environment,

build relationships with co-workers and staff; gain

CONFIDENCE

Leave your mark!

. . .

24-26

• Goal: Continue to grow as a nurse
• Goal: Research Travel Nurses Program or pursue surgical nursing
• Goal: Be debt free.
• Value: Clean slate and

trying new things!

*Engaged/Married?

Nursing

License

Certification

July-August 2015

Breathe.

Working hard.

27-29

Goal: Maintain certifications

Goal: Maintain friendships and relationships

Goal: Married/Kids?

Kaplan NCLEX Review Course

June 8-11, 2015

Beyond

Goal: Research

• NYU/Stonybrook Residency Program (ACCN Accredited)
• North Shore LIJ Medical Center Job Offer from Immersion
• Work on Connections at North Shore LIJ (New Hyde Park, Huntington), New York Presbyterian Hospital-University of Columbia, and Weill Cornell Medical Center

30-60

• Review book
• Kaplan Tools
• NCLEX App Questions 30/day
• Make a question goal calendar

Goal:

Begin preparing for NCLEX on a more regular basis

Goal: Take time to enjoy the summer and

get back to taking care of myself!

21

I've always liked Boston...or someplace warm

Class of 2015

Value: I value my education.

Look how far you've come.

Graduation

May 16, 2015

• Goal: Maintain certifications and continue learning through classes and seminars (NP?)
• Goal: Continue to travel and support my family
• Goal: Savings and Retirement Fund (getting an accountant for that one...)
• Value: Staying on top of my nursing skills
• Value: Meeting new people and gaining new experiences
• Value: Do what you love, love what you do

BSN