Tara Troxell WGU BSN C493 Portfolio

A.1 Complete a Mission Statement My goal professionally after completing my BSN is to become a NP who specializes in care for special needs children. A major goal of mine is to continue to educate myself on how to provide the best possible care for my patients and their families. This includes keeping up to date with any current studies and research that may apply to this field of nursing. Providing quality care with compassion, knowledge, and respect is my mission statement and somethi...

A.1a Reflect on how your professional mission statement will help guide you throughout your nursing career. I feel that the hardships and long time it took me to achieve my goal of becoming a nurse helped to shape my mission statement. Once I started my nursing career it did not take me long to realize what my goals as a nurse were. At that time, I didn’t call it a mission statement, but I knew what I wished to achieve and what type of nurse I wanted to become and be. Although I have had strug...