Personal Successful Graduate Study
Running head: Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success
Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success
Pang Hang
HCS/504 Introduction to Graduate Study in Health Sciences/Nursing
February 13, 2013
Professor Danielle Patrick
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS
Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success In my graduate study challenges and strategies for personal success paper, I will be touching upon what my personal and professional goals are and what I need to do to succeed. I will include reasons I am pursuing my graduate studies and what my short-term and long-term goal will be and how to reach them as I start my journey through my graduate …show more content…
studies. There will be challenges as I work my way through my graduate studies that I will be discussing and strategies that I will be using to help and guide me to succeed. There will be milestones that I will run across to achieve my short-term and long-term goals that I will touch upon as well. I do have weaknesses and strengths that I will need to work on concerning personal communication with my professor and peer students. At last but not lease, I will be providing strategies that can help improve my communication as I continue my journey through graduate studies because it is very important.
Personal and Professional Goals "Many educators find that a master 's degree gives them increased job security or greater opportunity for mobility” (Garth, 1012, p. 4). My first personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies in my life is to advance my career in the nursing filed. It was a tough decision to come back to school. I made my decision and my decision was to be here at University of Phoenix to work on my MSN in Specialization in Nursing/Clinical Educator. I want to express my knowledge and skills with my future student nurses someday. Also with an advance in my degree there will also be more opportunity for myself to
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS spread my wings, learn new things, and also get a chance to explore my own ability in the higher leader of the nursing fields.
My second personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies is to show my families that education is important and advance to bigger and better opportunity in life. Education is the key to success in life. I always believe in getting my education and further my education to advance my opportunity in life for a superior career that I will truly enjoy every day. I have children and also younger siblings that I want to show and express to them that they can make it in life if you try in getting your education. I am their footsteps because I am the only one and the first one to finished college and became a nurse as well. I hope that my foot steps will be follow because getting an education is important for great opportunity out there in the world today.
My last personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies is that I am doing this for my family. I want to provide for my family. I want to let them know that I can provide a stable and stress free environment for my children to grow and learn in. Also to let my husband know that I can also provide and support him if anything unexpected ever happen. With an advance degree with better income for the household assure me that my family will not struggle to get through every day.
For my short term, I will learn as much as I can from this online course and also pass it to advance to the next course in my graduate study journey to receive my MSN. My long-term goal would be advance my career to the next leader in the nursing field and
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS become an educator in the hospital setting or be able to teach nursing students and share my own experiences with the nursing students.
Three Challenges You Face in Meeting Your Goals I would have to say that one of the first challenges that I would have to face first, before meeting any of my goals would getting through all my require online courses. I know that every course will have its challenges and I am willing to work hard and motivate myself to get through and also gain the knowledge as well. The next challenges that I would have to face before meeting my goals are learning to balance between work, family, and school because as my online course advance it would require me to plan ahead to do my assignment or projects. My last challenges that I will be facing before reaching my goals would be learning to work as a team. Getting the work done together so that every team members did their part to receive fair credit for the assignment or projects because this online course require team learning assignment or projects as well.
Strategies You Can Use to Overcome These Challenges "Stress and academic performance are universal issues in college students ' lives. A coping style is the typical manner in which an individual will confront a stressful situation" (Forbus, Newbold, & Mehta, 2011, p. 116). As mentioned in our discussion regarding stress and time management it also an important part with my first challenges. I need to manage my time to get through my online course. I will have to say that in order to get through my online course I need to be stress free at time and be able to focus on myself and my school work so that way I can gain the knowledge that I need as well. The next challenges are
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS learning to balance between family, work, and school is not an easy thing to do. I need to plan ahead of time for my school and also the family too and try to work that around my work schedule too. My husband is very helpful with cooking, cleaning, and taking of the children most of the time. With the extra helps, it really take away so of the stress and I will not have to worry most of the time regarding preparing this and preparing that for the family, which I really appreciate him very much. The last challenges would be learning to work within a team especially through communicate in discussion or other options that the team members prefer. It is important to have a team to get the work done and the team leader is someone that will direct others of what to do and what is expected from the team members for the assignment.
Milestones that will Mark the Achievement of the Short-Term and Long-Term Goals For myself I would have to say that the milestone that will mark my achievement for my short-term goal are getting through all my require course for my MSN degree. I think that it will be a tough journey but I know that I can do it. I think that staying positive and motivate to wanting it more than anything to finish graduate school and advance to the next step in your life will be a great achievement. The milestone that I think with mark my achievement of my long-term goal would be preparing me to advance into the next leader in the nursing field. I will definitely show that I am ready to take the next role as a clinical educator in hospital setting or to teach my future nursing students with the experiences and knowledge that I gained as a nurse and through graduate school as well. "This is consistent with the conventional belief that feeling in control of one 's time results in lower levels of stress and
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS higher levels of individual problem-solving ability and well-being" (Nonis, Hudson, & Logan, 1998, p. 600).
An Analysis of Your Strengths and Weaknesses Related to Personal Communication I have to say that I am a very shy person and do not like to talk in front of a large group of people unless it is people I am comfortable with already. I get really nervous and find myself not to express myself the way I would of what to and also get embarrass from it too. This is my weakness when relating it to personal communication. My strength in personal communication I would have to say that it would be if I have something important to talk to doctor and family members about I can do that because I feel confident in what I am discussing without any concerns. I think that knowledge play an important role to be confident in what I am presenting when I am communicating with others.
Three Strategies You Can Use to Improve Your Communication According to Crossing, Heagney (2009), “For student retention, the more micro-level issues involve outlining the teaching and learning factors that promote student continuation with their studies” (p. 10). I think that the first strategy to help improve my communication would be to continue practicing it every day at home, work, and school with online discussion with my professor and classmates. Practicing will be the first way to start because like anything else for it to get better you need to practice on it first to improve and be better than you were before. My second strategy for improving my communication would be that I need to be in control of my nervousness and shyness when coming to talk to people, especially in large crowd. I need to
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS stand up for and be able to present in the way that I want people to see me. I really like our discussion online course because this help me express what I think and feel about the topic that was discuss and I also can response to other students regarding what I learn from them and what I also think about their ideas as well. I really need to be in front of a mirror or a big empty room and just talk away like there no tomorrow to improve and I know that this will take time. My last strategy for improving my communication would have to believe in myself that I can do it and that I am confident in myself. I have to believe in myself and that I am very knowledge too. I need to be positive about myself because my family they are but I need to for my own self.
Conclusion
Years from when I am looking back to want I did to succeed in my graduate study I will be amaze of all the challenges and strategies that I plan.
It would be great to see that I have use these strategies to help me get through all the challenges of milestones to get to my shot-term and long-term goals. To see that I improve in my weakness and even advance my strength would be another great accomplish to get to the next step of my journey. Hope that with practices and through graduate school I will see the improvement on my communication skills.
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS
References
Crossing, G., Heagney, M. (2009). Improving student retention in higher education. Australian
Universities Review, 51(2), 9-18.
Ediger, M. (2011, December). The Master 's Degree in Education. College Student Journal,
45(4), 847-850.
Forbus, P., Newbold, J. J., & Mehta, S. S. (2011). A study of non-traditional students in terms of their time management behaviors, stress factors, and coping strategies. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, suppl. Special Issues, 15, 109-125.
Nonis, S. A., Hudson, G. I., & Logan, L. B. (1998, October 1). Influence of perceived control over time on college students ' stress and stress-related outcomes. Research in Higher
Education, 39(5),
587-605.
Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success
Pang Hang
HCS/504 Introduction to Graduate Study in Health Sciences/Nursing
February 13, 2013
Professor Danielle Patrick
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS
Graduate Study Challenges and Strategies for Personal Success In my graduate study challenges and strategies for personal success paper, I will be touching upon what my personal and professional goals are and what I need to do to succeed. I will include reasons I am pursuing my graduate studies and what my short-term and long-term goal will be and how to reach them as I start my journey through my graduate …show more content…
studies. There will be challenges as I work my way through my graduate studies that I will be discussing and strategies that I will be using to help and guide me to succeed. There will be milestones that I will run across to achieve my short-term and long-term goals that I will touch upon as well. I do have weaknesses and strengths that I will need to work on concerning personal communication with my professor and peer students. At last but not lease, I will be providing strategies that can help improve my communication as I continue my journey through graduate studies because it is very important.
Personal and Professional Goals "Many educators find that a master 's degree gives them increased job security or greater opportunity for mobility” (Garth, 1012, p. 4). My first personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies in my life is to advance my career in the nursing filed. It was a tough decision to come back to school. I made my decision and my decision was to be here at University of Phoenix to work on my MSN in Specialization in Nursing/Clinical Educator. I want to express my knowledge and skills with my future student nurses someday. Also with an advance in my degree there will also be more opportunity for myself to
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS spread my wings, learn new things, and also get a chance to explore my own ability in the higher leader of the nursing fields.
My second personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies is to show my families that education is important and advance to bigger and better opportunity in life. Education is the key to success in life. I always believe in getting my education and further my education to advance my opportunity in life for a superior career that I will truly enjoy every day. I have children and also younger siblings that I want to show and express to them that they can make it in life if you try in getting your education. I am their footsteps because I am the only one and the first one to finished college and became a nurse as well. I hope that my foot steps will be follow because getting an education is important for great opportunity out there in the world today.
My last personal reason for why I am pursuing graduate studies is that I am doing this for my family. I want to provide for my family. I want to let them know that I can provide a stable and stress free environment for my children to grow and learn in. Also to let my husband know that I can also provide and support him if anything unexpected ever happen. With an advance degree with better income for the household assure me that my family will not struggle to get through every day.
For my short term, I will learn as much as I can from this online course and also pass it to advance to the next course in my graduate study journey to receive my MSN. My long-term goal would be advance my career to the next leader in the nursing field and
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS become an educator in the hospital setting or be able to teach nursing students and share my own experiences with the nursing students.
Three Challenges You Face in Meeting Your Goals I would have to say that one of the first challenges that I would have to face first, before meeting any of my goals would getting through all my require online courses. I know that every course will have its challenges and I am willing to work hard and motivate myself to get through and also gain the knowledge as well. The next challenges that I would have to face before meeting my goals are learning to balance between work, family, and school because as my online course advance it would require me to plan ahead to do my assignment or projects. My last challenges that I will be facing before reaching my goals would be learning to work as a team. Getting the work done together so that every team members did their part to receive fair credit for the assignment or projects because this online course require team learning assignment or projects as well.
Strategies You Can Use to Overcome These Challenges "Stress and academic performance are universal issues in college students ' lives. A coping style is the typical manner in which an individual will confront a stressful situation" (Forbus, Newbold, & Mehta, 2011, p. 116). As mentioned in our discussion regarding stress and time management it also an important part with my first challenges. I need to manage my time to get through my online course. I will have to say that in order to get through my online course I need to be stress free at time and be able to focus on myself and my school work so that way I can gain the knowledge that I need as well. The next challenges are
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS learning to balance between family, work, and school is not an easy thing to do. I need to plan ahead of time for my school and also the family too and try to work that around my work schedule too. My husband is very helpful with cooking, cleaning, and taking of the children most of the time. With the extra helps, it really take away so of the stress and I will not have to worry most of the time regarding preparing this and preparing that for the family, which I really appreciate him very much. The last challenges would be learning to work within a team especially through communicate in discussion or other options that the team members prefer. It is important to have a team to get the work done and the team leader is someone that will direct others of what to do and what is expected from the team members for the assignment.
Milestones that will Mark the Achievement of the Short-Term and Long-Term Goals For myself I would have to say that the milestone that will mark my achievement for my short-term goal are getting through all my require course for my MSN degree. I think that it will be a tough journey but I know that I can do it. I think that staying positive and motivate to wanting it more than anything to finish graduate school and advance to the next step in your life will be a great achievement. The milestone that I think with mark my achievement of my long-term goal would be preparing me to advance into the next leader in the nursing field. I will definitely show that I am ready to take the next role as a clinical educator in hospital setting or to teach my future nursing students with the experiences and knowledge that I gained as a nurse and through graduate school as well. "This is consistent with the conventional belief that feeling in control of one 's time results in lower levels of stress and
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS higher levels of individual problem-solving ability and well-being" (Nonis, Hudson, & Logan, 1998, p. 600).
An Analysis of Your Strengths and Weaknesses Related to Personal Communication I have to say that I am a very shy person and do not like to talk in front of a large group of people unless it is people I am comfortable with already. I get really nervous and find myself not to express myself the way I would of what to and also get embarrass from it too. This is my weakness when relating it to personal communication. My strength in personal communication I would have to say that it would be if I have something important to talk to doctor and family members about I can do that because I feel confident in what I am discussing without any concerns. I think that knowledge play an important role to be confident in what I am presenting when I am communicating with others.
Three Strategies You Can Use to Improve Your Communication According to Crossing, Heagney (2009), “For student retention, the more micro-level issues involve outlining the teaching and learning factors that promote student continuation with their studies” (p. 10). I think that the first strategy to help improve my communication would be to continue practicing it every day at home, work, and school with online discussion with my professor and classmates. Practicing will be the first way to start because like anything else for it to get better you need to practice on it first to improve and be better than you were before. My second strategy for improving my communication would be that I need to be in control of my nervousness and shyness when coming to talk to people, especially in large crowd. I need to
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS stand up for and be able to present in the way that I want people to see me. I really like our discussion online course because this help me express what I think and feel about the topic that was discuss and I also can response to other students regarding what I learn from them and what I also think about their ideas as well. I really need to be in front of a mirror or a big empty room and just talk away like there no tomorrow to improve and I know that this will take time. My last strategy for improving my communication would have to believe in myself that I can do it and that I am confident in myself. I have to believe in myself and that I am very knowledge too. I need to be positive about myself because my family they are but I need to for my own self.
Conclusion
Years from when I am looking back to want I did to succeed in my graduate study I will be amaze of all the challenges and strategies that I plan.
It would be great to see that I have use these strategies to help me get through all the challenges of milestones to get to my shot-term and long-term goals. To see that I improve in my weakness and even advance my strength would be another great accomplish to get to the next step of my journey. Hope that with practices and through graduate school I will see the improvement on my communication skills.
GRADUATE STUDY CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL SUCCESS
References
Crossing, G., Heagney, M. (2009). Improving student retention in higher education. Australian
Universities Review, 51(2), 9-18.
Ediger, M. (2011, December). The Master 's Degree in Education. College Student Journal,
45(4), 847-850.
Forbus, P., Newbold, J. J., & Mehta, S. S. (2011). A study of non-traditional students in terms of their time management behaviors, stress factors, and coping strategies. Academy of Educational Leadership Journal, suppl. Special Issues, 15, 109-125.
Nonis, S. A., Hudson, G. I., & Logan, L. B. (1998, October 1). Influence of perceived control over time on college students ' stress and stress-related outcomes. Research in Higher
Education, 39(5),
587-605.