Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:

Personal Development & Reflection

• Recognize self-awareness skills and emotional limitation to engage in appropriate help-seeking behaviors.
• Review strategies to set and meet personal and professional goals.
• Recognize stages of professional identity and the contributions to professionalism.
• Practice a variety of self-reflective skills and tools to support reflection and growth strategies.
• Describe the foundational concepts of professional identity formation and its value to professionalism and ethical patient care.
• Discuss professional identity in the advanced practice professions.
• Discuss the professional identity essay as a method to assess professional identity formation.
• Complete an individual PIE and perform a personal professional reflection on the results.

APP Practice & Role

• Analyze the impact of scope of practice for the APP professions on patient care.
• Demonstrate best practices for healthcare professional roles and practice.
• Describe the integration of APPs into the healthcare and management systems.
• Demonstrate APP professionalism and support others to grow professionalism skills and awareness.
• Recognize strategies to enhance the APP role in team-based practice including interprofessional communication and best practices for team models.

Leadership & Communication Skills

• Demonstrate effective communication strategies to enhance personal, professional, and patient communication.
• Identify techniques to reflect and enhance emotional intelligence.
• Practice using electronic tools for professional communication and organization.
• Establish professional relationships founded on trust, interpersonal interactions, and effective communication to navigate challenging situations.
• Reflect on the impact of change in the organization and understand your ability to navigate change and influence those around you.

Problem Solving

• Apply problem solving tools into everyday problem solving.
• Collaborate with team members to understand problems in everyday work and identify potential solutions.
• Apply problem solving and change management strategies to address an identified opportunity. APP fellows will complete a problem-solving project (Department APP optional but encouraged).