Description This course consists of three online modules. Each module includes a recording of a webinar designed specifically for the professional development of nurses in the Second Year Enrichment Program.

Objectives The module number, webinar title, and corresponding objectives for each webinar follow:

1. Webinar #1 "Career Planning" objectives: At the end of this module, the learner will be able to...

• Apply Benner's framework to the current level of professional nursing practice.
• Articulate a professional development plan for the next 12-24 months of one's professional nursing career.
• Discuss formation of a professional identity in nursing.
• Discuss some potential nursing career paths and consideration for going back to school.
• Explain the benefit of participating in nursing professional organization activities relevant to current specialty practice area.
• Identify resources within the organization and practice environment that will promote growth in professional practice.
• Review the objectives, structure, and expectations of the Second Year Program.
• Review the Skills Assessment Inventory.

2. Webinar #2 "Role Socialization and Facilitative Practice" objectives: At the end of this module, the learner will be able to...

• Describe networking etiquette.
• Identify a mentor who can guide individual professional development in a specified area of nursing practice.
• Describe the facilitator's role in group process to promote professional growth of new nurses.
• Demonstrate effective skills in using facilitated reflection as a learning strategy.

3. Webinar #3 "Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)" objectives: At the end of this module, the learner will be able to...

• Identify appropriate, clinically relevant evidence-based project issues to consider as topics.
• Understand institutional resources available for EBP Projects.
• Develop an implementation and dissemination plan with identified stakeholders.
• Evaluate the implementation processes and outcomes.
• Compose an appropriate abstract for the EBP project.
• Develop a poster for the EBP project.
• Understand the steps for presenting the EBP project at Medstar Health Research Conference and at a national conference.