Table 1 . Your Enhanced Success - YES A-to-Z Tips
Assess where you are , where you want to go , and why . Be proactive . Initiate strategies at key transitional periods and before problems occur . Contemplate academic and nonacademic factors that may support or restrict your career path goals . Distinguish between factors that can and cannot be changed , differentiate between tasks that can and cannot be delegated , determine priorities , and delegate accordingly . Embrace that “ enrichment is for everyone ” and that “ enrichment is essential for expediting excellence from and for everyone ”. Form family-faculty-friend support networks . Get ready to actively participate and give up guesswork . Honor academic and professional integrity and code of ethics . Identify strengths and weaknesses to individualize your career path to YES . Joggle “ just good enough ” to reach “ peak performance potential .” Know details – keep informed and updated . Like learning , listen actively , and link learning to lifelong goals and legacy planning . Monitor multiple role responsibilities and multitasking , measure outcomes periodically , and motivate yourself and your family-faculty-friend support network by celebrating small and large goal achievements together . Neutralize negative thoughts and behaviors with positive help-seeking behaviors . Orchestrate organized plans to optimize outcomes . Promote your health . Provide time for self-care , rest , relaxation , reflection , and imagination . Question unclear areas to quickly enhance quality of learning within a shortened quantity of time . Reflect in action , on action , and for action . Select next steps and strategies to facilitate satisfaction , stress-reduction , realistic and resilient self-efficacy ( confidence ), and academic success . Trust reliable sources , teamwork of experts , and take time to make time for yourself . Use resources and services proactively , at early onset of challenges , at key transitional points , and ongoing as needed . Value the process and product benefits of earning a baccalaureate degree in nursing . Welcome new ideas and futuristic innovations that build upon scholarly wisdom of past and present . EXpect the unexpected and have a back-up to your back-up plan . Yearn to make a positive difference in nursing and health care through your contributions . Zip together all components to see the big picture in your career path .
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Marianne R . Jeffreys , EdD , RN , is a professor at the City University of New York ( CUNY ) Graduate Center and at CUNY College of Staten Island . She is also an author of several books , including one that received the AJN Book of the Year Award .
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