Margaret Penner has three professional nursing goals: to become an expert bedside nurse providing competent and compassionate evidence-based care through teamwork and relationships with patients; to affect positive change in her unit and institution through patient advocacy and championing evidence-based interventions and resources to improve patient safety, satisfaction and outcomes; and to promote women's health and provide cancer care to female patients by becoming a nurse practitioner specializing in oncology.

1. Professional Nursing Goals
MARGARET PENNER

2. Be a competent, compassionate
nurse leader
Patients are the most important reason I am a
nurse. My first goal as a graduate is to become
an expert bedside nurse, providing the best care
through evidence-based technical
proficiency, patient-centered teamwork, and
therapeutic relationships.

3. Affect positive, patient-centered
change in my unit and institution.
I am dedicated to patient advocacy,
championing evidence-based interventions
for individual patients as well as systemic
support for patient safety, satisfaction,
and outcomes. I utilize national
networks as resources to learn and share
best practices.

4. Promote women’s health and
provide women’s cancer care.
Personal experience has given me a
big heart for the care of patients with
female-specific cancers. My
ultimate goal is to become a nurse
practitioner in oncology.