Setting Goals to Improve Knowledge in Weakest Areas

In order to see my strengths and weaknesses in each system, I completed seven practice questions in each category of the Leik practice questions. I was surprised in some of the areas that I did well in and others I did not do so great. My strongest areas are reproductive (90%), HEENT (71%), endocrine (71%), gastrointestinal (86%), neurological (71%), and professional role (86%). My weakest areas are pharmacology (53%), health promotion (59%), integumentary (57%), cardiovascular (57%), respiratory (68%), genitourinary (55%), hematopoietic (47%), musculoskeletal (29%), and psychiatric (48%). I was shocked to see that I know nothing about musculoskeletal and really need to focus on learning all I can about this system. The purpose of this paper is to set goals and plans to increase my knowledge in my weakest areas.

I plan to improve my percentage in musculoskeletal from 29% and hematopoietic from 47% to at least 75% in each system by the end of week one. By the end of week one, I will have completed my musculoskeletal review and my hematopoietic review. I will retake the musculoskeletal questions in the Leik book to see my improvement.I plan to improve my percentage in psychiatric from 48% and pharmacology from 53% to at least 75% in each system by the end of week two. By the end of week two Iwill have completed my musculoskeletal review and my hematopoietic review. I will retake the psychiatric and pharmacology questions in the Leik book to see my improvement.

I plan to improve my percentage in genitourinary from 55% and integumentary from 57% to at least 75% in each system by the end of week three. By the end of week three I will have completed my musculoskeletal review and my hematopoietic review. I will retake the genitourinary and integumentary questions in the Leik book to see my improvement.

I plan to improve my percentage in cardiovascular from 57% and respiratory from 68% to at least 75% in each system by the end of week four. By the end of week four I will have completed my musculoskeletal review and my hematopoietic review. I willretake the cardiovascular and respiratory questions in the Leik book to see my improvement.

There are many ways an individual could study to achieve a goal. I plan on studying the Leik book, watching the Hollier videos, and taking an online nurse practitioner (NP) review for family nurse practitioner (FNP). I plan to start with the Leik book and Hollier videos in this course. I will implement the online NP review course at the completion of this course. I will start studying with the areas I am the weakest in and study my strongest areas last. At the completion of this program, I will study my weakest areas again as a review. I will retake the Leik questions to see if my weakened areas have improved.

Goals

I plan on studying and completing each category in the Leik book by the end of this class. The Leik book app is a tool I have already started to use and plan to continue to use until I take my certification exam. I plan to go through each section of the book by focusing on two sections each week. I should be able to complete the book by the end of this class if I study two sections every week. I plan to take all the practice questions in the Leik app before I begin studying any section of the book. I will also complete thequestions after I study each section that week to evaluate how much I have learned. Iwill retake the questions at the end of the class to evaluate my retention of the areas Ihave studied throughout this class. I will continue to study the Leik book and do the practice questions once again before taking my certification exam.

I also have the Hollier review videos. There are 64 videos that last around 20 minutes each included in the Hollier review. The videos are divided up into 18 sections. I plan to listen to two section of videos every week. I will listen to the same section of Hollier videos as the same section I am studying in the Leik blook each week. I can listen to the videos whenever I am driving to my clinical site or to work. I have over an hour drive, one way, to clinicals and a two-hour drive, one way, to work. This will allow me to complete two section of videos every week. This will also allow me time to play the videos more than once. By listening to two sections of videos each week, I should be able to get through all the videos in nine weeks. I plan to relisten to the videos after I complete this course and daily until I take my certification exam. I will evaluate mylearning of my studying by taking the practice questions in the Leik book at the end of the week on the topics I have been studying that week.

After the completion of this course, I will take an online review that is called Sarah Michelle NP reviews. questions, and a study guide. This program has a 98% success rate at passing the NP certification exam. For one month after the completion of this program, I will purchase and study the online review program. I willfocus first on my weakest areas and thenmove to my strongest areas. At the completion of this program, I will take a prediction exam to evaluate the success of my three goals and identify areas where I might need to shift my focus.