Preparing a Strategic Career PlanGraduation and certification are the beginning of your career as an NP. Whether you are looking for that dream job or you have decided to open your own practice as an independent NP, you need a plan to get there. Before the Web and social media, job hunting was relatively simple. Job hunters perused the classifieds, made cold calls, and many times just showed up with a resume in hand. There has been a dramatic change in the last decade in how people find and get jobs, and NPs are no exception. For those seeking employment now, there is a wealth of resources available from mega employment websites to specialty blogs. Finding a job as an NP may not be a big challenge, but landing the position that you have passionately prepared for and pursued is going to take some work. A well-crafted cover letter and resume may be necessary items, but it may not be enough to get you exactly where you want to be. With so many opportunities and career trajectories available to NPs today, you need to focus and get serious about what you want to do and where you want to do it.DirectionsIn this Assignment, you will develop your own strategic career plan for starting your new career as an NP. There are many steps that need to be accomplished. Use the following guidelines to design your career plan. You do not need to include references. This is a plan that you may layout how you wish. Be creative, and really think about what you desire as a nurse practitioner. As everyone will have different goals, there are no right or wrong answers in this plan.It is time to take inventory and ask yourself some questions. What is your career vision? Be specific and honest. Where do you want to work? What are your short term and long term goals (give timeline). What are the most important things you are looking for? Discuss your desires for salary, vacation, sick leave, CME allowance, medical benefits, retirement, etc. Perhaps you have a niche such as managing chronic diseases in patients over 65 years old.Next, describe your ideal work situation. Is it a rural clinic or major trauma center? Who is your target patient population? Do you have a passion for a particular population or specialty? What schedule do you want? What are the priorities in your career right now? Where do you see your career in five years?How do you plan on researching opportunities (whether looking for employment or independent practice site)? List several methods such as job fairs, the Web, and medical employment agencies.Networking is essential for today’s healthcare provider. Discuss your networking ideas. What Internet resources might you use to network and connect with other healthcare providers?How will you prepare for the interview? What specific steps will you take?Imagine you are starting your own practice. What population will it serve? How will you market your practice? What personnel will you need to hire? How will you obtain funding? Will you be open extended hours to meet the needs of working patients? Will you be the sole provider, or will you hire other providers?

This is the first paper of several for this course. These are short papers intended to fine tune your research and critical thinking skills. Assignment Focus: Review the importance of Learning Objectives 1 and 2 in the syllabus.  1. Explain the importance of properly defining requirements. 2. Explain Better Buying Power and strategies to meet mission needs You have already discussed these two learning objectives in the week 1 and 2 Forums, and you should review these two Forums for possible input to this assignment topic. Assignment Topic: You first must decide which of the two topic areas to research for your assignment paper. Using this universities online library or other reputable sources, search for a peer reviewed article, conference paper, or professional published paper on either: (1) issues or problems with either the US government or Defense Department contract requirements, or (2) with issues or problems associated with Better Buying Power for some unique mission support.

Develop a paper that reviews some of the main topics covered in the course. Compose an essay to address the elements listed below. Identify the components of an information system (IS) using the five-component framework, and provide a brief summary of each.Explain Porter’s five forces model.Management IS (MIS) incorporate software and hardware technologies to provide useful information for decision-making. Explain each of the following IS, and use at least one example in each to support your discussion: a collaboration information system, a database management system, a content management system, a knowledge management/expert system, a customer relationship management system, an enterprise resource planning system, a social media IS, a business intelligence/decision support system, and an enterprise IS.Identify and discuss one technical and one human safeguard to protect against IS security threats.There are several processes that can be used to develop IS and applications such as systems development life cycle (SDLC) and scrum (agile development). Provide a brief description of SDLC and scrum, and then discuss at least one similarity and one difference between SDLC and scrumSum up your paper by discussing the importance of MIS. Your paper must be at least three pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and you must use at least two resources. Be sure to cite all sources used in APA format, and format your essay in APA style.