Yusuf Adegoke is a registered nurse who graduated with his BSN in 2018. His career goal is to become a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to help improve access to mental healthcare and reduce stigma. He believes Walden University's program will help him achieve this goal and promote positive social change. The document discusses how Walden will provide opportunities to develop skills to accomplish his goals of better serving people with mental illness and making mental healthcare more accessible and acceptable in the community.

1. Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by
Respond to at least two of your colleagues’ posts by suggesting additional individuals
and/or teams with whom you wish to collaborate or by offering additional networking
strategies My name is Yusuf Adegoke. I live in Chicago IL. I graduated from City Colleges of
Chicago with Associates in Nursing in 2016, and Resurrection University at Chicago with
BSN degree in 2018. I am currently working at John H. Stroger Hospital as a Registered
Nurse on medical surgical/tele unit. My hobbies include travelling, watching soccer and
listening to music. My career goal is to become a Psychiatric Mental Health
Nurse Practitioner and I want to be able use my profession and experience to change the
way mental health is viewed in the community. I want to be able educate people about
mental health and encourage more people to seek care, providing them with better
resources and making mental health more accessible to people. Walden University will give
me the opportunity to expand my view on a positive social change in the mental health
industry through research and collaborations towards the achievement of my goal. This
will lead to effective and efficient intervention in providing care for people with mental
health problems and enhance provision of better resources and accessibility to
mental health. Also, it will enable me to develop strategies to meet every need of the
profession by learning, performing, and generalization of adaptive behavior skills which is
required for individuals with mental health problems for them to socialize, adapt and
integrate very well within the community. Incorporation of Social
ChangeWalden University make provision for many professionals with diverse
careers, with the opportunity of equipping themselves into motivated learners
and positive social change makers in their various communities (Walden University,
2022). With all the opportunities made available by Walden University through the
program, I will be able to carefully plan and develop the skills needed to make it easy for
me to accomplish my established goals and support people with mental health problems
with better access to resources, encourage them to seek care and making mental health
accessible to more people in the community. This will make it easier for people with mental
health to socialize and integrate into the community, through behavior intervention,
behavior modification, and behavior shaping. My plan for promoting changes
involves continuing to acquire the knowledge, identify the issues, educate, and care for
everyone I encounter throughout my career to improve health outcomes and quality of life
for the
community.

2. Networking Networking is getting to know people and
developing personal and professional relationship from there onward. It is like a
process whereby one interacts with others to get information and knowledge from them. It
is an accurate source of information and knowledge acquisition. Networking will help me in
getting the necessary information I needed in developing and improving my skill sets.
Meeting new people will allow me to develop new skills, knowledge and help me in
improving on my own skills. Networking makes it possible to meet prospective
mentors, partners, and gain access to necessary resources will foster professional and
academic developments.