Margaret Penner has three professional nursing goals: to become an expert bedside nurse providing competent and compassionate evidence-based care through technical proficiency, teamwork and therapeutic relationships; to affect positive patient-centered change in her unit and institution through patient advocacy and championing evidence-based interventions for individual patients and systemic support for patient safety, satisfaction and outcomes; and to use technology to improve healthcare efficacy and efficiency such as advancing the field of nursing through developing robust, intuitive clinical software.