Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 1: Developing an Academic and Professional Network

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Academic and Professional Success Plan
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Week 1 | Part 1: My Academic and Professional Network

The nursing profession is one that requires a collective effort to steer individuals into the necessary outcomes. Nursing is changing quickly, and one individual cannot master all the changes that the profession experiences (Wofford, 2018). Conversely, professionals need to adapt to the changes lest they are left behind in the pursuance of the future of healthcare. To that extent, collaborative inputs are necessary for nurses. Having a unique and diverse professional and academic network is one of the avenues of ensuring that a nurse stays up to date with the changes. Developing this professional and academic network portfolio creates an insight into what one intends to achieve as a professional. Additionally, career advancements are motivation for every nurse. Nurses need to land their dream jobs. That can only happen if they are surrounded by the right individuals and teams. A lack of a good support system, resources, and tools to advance a career only implies failures.


NETWORK MEMBER 1

Name: Vincent Hall


Title: Program Director


Organization: Walden University, College of Nursing


Academic or Professional: Academic and Professional


Why I selected this individual and/or team and how they will support my success in the MSN program and as a practicing nurse:

Notes:
Nursing is a highly dynamic profession that requires an individual to instill an insightful knowledge and skillset to succeed. That is only achievable when an individual has the right people to steer him/her through the dynamism of the profession. Vincent Hall is an unrivaled candidate when it comes to nurturing learners from amateurs to when they become professionals. Hall is both an academic and a professional with vast knowledge both in the clinical setting and the academic ranks of the nursing profession.
The choice to include Hall in this list is based on multiple factors ranging from his current role at Walden University and the inputs that he has instilled in the nursing profession. Hall serves as the MSN SP program director for MSN at the College of Nursing at Walden University. In his role as a director, he supervises multiple aspects of operations at the college. Some of his areas of supervision include public health nursing specializations, nursing informatics, nurse executive, as well as nursing education. His experience is unrivaled, having served as the director of the school of nursing at Western Carolina University (WCU). At WCU, Hall supervised learners both in undergraduate and graduate courses. He also serves as a committee member at the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). Hall continues serving as a member of the American Association of College Nursing (AACN), where he, alongside other professionals, revise the standards of baccalaureate and higher degree education in the country. Hall has been a nurse educator for more than 30 years and has also been a registered nurse for more than 40 years. At the very le...