Academic Success Plan Paper

Academic Success Plan

This paper explores my the positive and negatives of my learning style, color personality, and critical thinking strengths. Upon reflecting these, it will help identify what is working as part of my current academic plan and what needs improving. In conclusion of this paper, I hope to understand my strengths and weakness, to take that knowledge and apply it to improve my current academic plan and to carry it on into my future career plans.

ATI Self-Assessment

Learning Styles

According to the ATI Self-Assessment (2017), my dominant leading style was “Group Learning” in which I scored a 7.3 out of 10. I agree that this is my dominant leading style as I believe I learn better when I can bounce my knowledge off of other people

It does not surprise me that I scored a 6.3 in this category since I am diagnosed with anxiety. As a person diagnosed with anxiety, I tend to stress over a lot of things for a number of reasons that are hard to understand and my anxiety makes it hard for me to cope with things sometimes. I think I will improve with this on my own as I get more experience in this field and my nervousness subsides as I grow more confident in my abilities. There are strategies I can utilize to help improve this skill such as exercising, taking control of a situation, deep breathing or mediation and just manage my time better.

Work Values

While I scored above a six in all categories in this section as well, I can always improve. I would like to improve in “Self-Esteem”. Self-esteem has been a reoccurring issue so far in my nursing career, I think it goes hand in hand with my anxiety. It causes me to get nervous in certain situations and do not believe in my abilities. Like I stated above, I think this will change with experience. To improve my self-esteem, I could volunteer to get more practice, shadow a nurse and apply other learning materials more often to make myself feel more confident before entering my clinical experience.

Color Personality

Upon reflecting I believe I interpret and comprehend data well, I can explain written and verbal information using my own reasoning, I can evaluate information or situations by assessing evidence, significance, and value, and finally; I can self-regulate by reflecting on my own thinking and judgements and reevaluate where appropriate. I scored below the national mean in analysis and inference. Analysis is the ability to “examine, organize, categorize, or prioritize variables such as signs and symptoms, evidence, facts, research findings, concepts, ideas, beliefs, and point of view” (ATI “Critical Thinking”, 2017). I can improve critical thinking in this category by doing more research, I can improve clinical reasoning by studying disease treatments and care plans more in-depth, and I can improve judgement by gaining more experience. Inference is the ability to “draw conclusions based on evidence, to differentiate between conclusions/hypotheses that are logically or evidentially necessary and those that are merely possible or probable and identify knowledge gaps or needs” (ATI “Critical Thinking”, 2017). I can improve critical thinking in this category by expanding my knowledge though continuing my education, improve clinical reasoning by being able to identify signs and symptoms of a condition and how to treat it without complete