Describe your overall growth as to how you have grown professionally and academically from an RN to a BSN-prepared nurse. Provide some example to illustrate your narrative if necessary.

Personal Growth, Acquired Knowledge, Competencies, and Applications

Instructions:

Reflect on your journey throughout the BSN program – specifically to your growth (academically and professionally) as well as the competencies in the areas that are tied to the program learning outcomes:

• Professionalism
• Ethical, legal & cultural considerations, sensitivity & practices
• Evidence-based nursing practice and its utilization to promote, maintain, and restore health
• Health maintenance and enhancement of patients, families, and communities
• Leadership & Management

Compose an essay that must be a minimum of 700 words,

— describing your overall growth as to how you have grown professionally and academically from an RN to a BSN-prepared nurse. Provide some example to illustrate your narrative if necessary.

— discussing each of the areas of competency listed above to demonstrate how you have applied, are applying, or plan to apply your knowledge/competencies acquired from the BSN program to your practice.

This essay, along with the other pieces of work required to be in your ePortfolio, will be used to determine your level of achievements of meeting all the RN-BSN program learning outcomes. Therefore, refrain from any *fillers* in this essay but be clear, concise, direct, and specific to your reflection and examples.