MICHAEL RAY
BONYNGE PORTFOLIO
University of Mary MSN/MBA in
Healthcare Administration Dual Degree Program
As a Registered Nurse, my experiences and exposures involve several perioperative nursing opportunities and career possibilities to meet the community's needs. An adaptive, diligent, teamwork-centered, and patient-focused mindset has harnessed a sense of the nursing process with prioritization skills. My tenure as a professional nurse and scholar consists of balance, vision, and determination. Challenges and complex circumstances are inevitable, but with attention to detail, quality delegation, and communication standards - teams can minimize uncertainty and better discover solutions to problems and roadblocks. My nursing practice desires are to learn cost-effective methodology, quality workflow processes, and genuine team character to achieving high-quality care outcomes involving patients, the community, and healthcare personnel.
I do not stand out from nursing coworkers; instead, I stand among nursing colleagues and healthcare professionals. My character comprises critical thinking and awareness. As I balance professional and personal lifestyles, the underlying combination of nutrition, exercise, sleep, social interaction, and holistic healthcare - enables an organized, genuine, and humble colleague that promotes a sense of accountable healthcare stewardship.
Professional Portfolio Purpose
The purpose of my portfolio is to demonstrate the accomplishment of proficiency with a variable skillset capable of fulfilling numerous positions in healthcare. My commitment to lifelong learning enables a development mindset capable of professional excellence. My individual growth entails personal and professional values and goals that help guide a sense of belonging in healthcare. Great healthcare performance is about conscious awareness of the practice and role autonomy. From my experience in care standards - communication, integrity, consistency, and resourcefulness are the fundamental core pillars of healthcare performance. Healthcare colleagues require autonomy and values that guide their daily interactions and professional standards. Coworkers need a direction that creates critical thinking aptitude, stability, and trusting relationships that harbor confidence during uncertain scenarios.
My portfolio indicates an academic achievement that incorporates the MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration dual degree outcomes, nursing leadership competencies, and servant leadership foundation. The cornerstones that I focus on in healthcare leadership reveal presence amongst colleagues, coordination of care, and communication standards in organizational environments caring for transparent and achievable patient outcomes. As I continue to develop experiences as a nurse - stability, consistency, and a patient-care focus will direct my influence in performance and colleague interaction.
Goals
Over the next year to three years, my primary goal is to gain more experience in the perioperative nursing setting, gain greater nursing experience and knowledge foundation, and develop resiliency with challenging situations and scenarios. With just over three and a half years of nursing experience, the development of expert proficiency will take more time than initially planned. Some opportunities I would like to take on with a continual role involve more practice with the charge nursing role experience, interviewing of candidates, committee involvement, and coordinator fulfillment. These leadership moments require patience and conversations with other leaders. I will give myself a year time frame and seek out leaders who desire to share their wisdom and direction. During this time period, I will keep track of a professional journal to evaluate my progression and response to leadership opportunities.
In addition to leadership exposure, I anticipate working on CNOR achievement, scrubbing experience in the operating room setting, and the basic premise of having goals. Over the last three years, my vision involved school and work with little attention to likes, dislikes, and skillset. With a year time frame, I have the opportunity to reflect on what harnesses the greatest fulfillment in my nursing career. I do not have the experiences to develop future long-term goals beyond five years because I have not had the time investment nor identified skills and career ladder programs to grow personally and professionally. One key area for my nursing profession's success is developing better conflict resolution skills and focusing on confidence and aptitude. Performing a leadership role involves accountability, resourcefulness, fundamental technique mastery, personnel management, and the proficiency of working with various healthcare colleagues in many formats.
Short-term goals (1-2 years):
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Identify goals, areas of strength and weakness, and start to journal and reflect on practice consistency. I will evaluate my goals with leaders in the nursing organization monthly to check-in on my progression.
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Take more initiative with charge nursing practices, interviewing candidate options, involvement in committees, and seeking out opportunities for coordinating nursing care.
Long -term goals (3-5 years):
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Identify areas of improvement and successful periods or scenarios. Evaluate fulfillment and skillset. I will achieve these goals through continual goal evaluation on an annual basis with leaders in the nursing profession and reading literature that enhances my knowledge and understanding.
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Gain experience in difficult situations and move outside of my comfort zone. I plan on achieving this goal by identifying areas I am good with accomplishing and areas I can harness greater experience. When a situation requires leadership or staffing feedback, I will professionally take on further responsibilities and growth abilities.
University of Mary Mission Statement: The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic, and cultural needs of people in this region and beyond. It takes its tone from the commitment of the Sisters of Annunciation Monastery. These Sisters founded the University and continue to sponsor it today. It is Christian, it is Catholic, and it is Benedictine.
Nursing Division Mission Statement
The Nursing Division prepares nurses to provide safe, quality, patient-centered healthcare to the people in the region and beyond without regard to race, religion, cultural background, or gender. By fostering a Christian, Catholic, and Benedictine learning environment, the Division supports the University mission to prepare leaders in the service of truth and to be competent in spirituality and ethics, communication, critical thinking, and global stewardship. Academic preparation and nursing practice opportunities in a variety of health-care settings along the continuum of care will prepare students to achieve competence in the areas of communication, scholarship, professional distinction, and moral courage.
Evidence of Growth at the Programmatic Level
MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration / Dual Degree Program Outcomes:
1. Integrate ethical practices & policies which appropriately address the unique healthcare laws, and regulations healthcare organizations must follow.
2. Synthesize information through research and data analysis using best business and evidence based nursing practice to facilitate change toward high quality, cost effective and ethical nursing care delivery systems.
3. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, consumers, & other stakeholders to effect change in healthcare delivery systems.
4. Utilize stewardship of human, fiscal, and organizational resources based on principles of finance, accounting, and economics.
5. Incorporate service and Benedictine values into nursing leadership practices.
6. Evaluate current domestic and global issues on healthcare and possible impacts to a changing healthcare industry.
7. Analyze significant issues between clinical nursing practice and healthcare administration to offer effective conflict resolution and provide leadership for practical solutions.
The separate coursework pages display the examples of assignments throughout the MSN/MBA Healthcare Administration degree program as a testament to the rigor and development undergone. Learning is a process of trial-and-error with feedback methodology. The assignments enlisted my focus to areas of healthcare that I would not have otherwise chosen. The developing framework of classes taught me the value of continual learning and seeking out information. Academics and learning are about sacrifice and time investment. The diligence of giving up foregone personal and professional opportunities to enhance your knowledge base in the focus of healthcare administration is a testament to the effort and focus I have placed on advancing myself.
The experiences of clinical opportunities and capstone Evidence-Based Practice projects are precious to influencing nursing standards at an organizational and academic level. The assignments, discussion posts, and coursework readings have developed a growth in the MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration. The assignments that have raised my nursing skillset and competence are the nursing and business courses that required more effort and overcoming greater challenges than average coursework. For me, the analytical financial and accounting coursework combined with nursing research - helped fulfill the needed elements of a well-rounded leader.
As a scholar, I have learned the value of learning and the methodology of the application process to literature and problem-solving. I have enhanced my comprehension and necessity for policies and their purpose involving laws and regulations within the program outcomes. A reason for healthcare methodology is evident, which involves conscious awareness of ethical decision-making and human comprehension. Financial stewardship has built a sense for prioritizing, analyzing strengths and weaknesses, and identifying community and organization needs. Healthcare is a business with an interplay between compassion and achievable outcomes. Excellent leaders are goal-focused and set a direction and demeanor for expectations. The influence of Benedictine values further enhances a series of guidelines for caring for individuals and patients. Evolving healthcare industries will succeed with defining needs, quality improvement, data, and evaluation workflow processes that are functional.
The MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration, dual degree program, integrated the workforce's foundational and principal components. Through an accrediting framework and a designed knowledge in practicing healthcare administration, I am more capable of someday evolving into an administrator role with a comprehensive understanding, a quality communication skillset, and a dedicated mindset. Because I am a young nurse with four years of experience, gaining greater clinical experience with outreach to clinical leaders is an opportunity for further development. My strengths involve perseverance, disciple to individual values, and a growth mindset. I am more capable of identifying areas for improvement and strength areas in the clinical perioperative nursing setting. I plan to follow the clinical ladder opportunities in nursing and employment to enhance administrator and leadership potential. Additionally, I plan to attain greater competencies and certifications to assist in my nursing knowledge and application.
Evidence of Growth at the Professional Level
Nurse Leadership and Management Program Outcomes
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Designs processes to achieve quality, cost-effective and ethical health outcomes
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Appreciates the complexity of human resource management in today’s healthcare
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Evaluate quality and safety measures
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Designs a plan of change using principles of servant leadership guided by Benedictine Values.
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Collaborates with others to improve the quality of professional nursing practice and health care policy
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Utilizes evidence based practice for performance improvement
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Possesses requisite knowledge to pursue doctoral education
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Uses information technology to improve processes
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Demonstrates effective principles of change while providing client centered care
AONL (American Organization for Nursing Leadership) Nurse Manager Competencies
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The Science: Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Performance Improvement, Foundational Thinking Skills, Technology, Strategic Management, Appropriate Clinical Practice Knowledge
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The Art: Human Resource Leadership Skills, Relationship Management and Influencing Behaviors, Diversity
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The Leader Within: Personal and Professional Accountability, Career Planning, Personal Journey Disciplines
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Graduate QSEN Competencies
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Quality Improvement (QI): Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of healthcare systems.
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Safety: Minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.
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Teamwork and Collaboration: Function effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
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Patient-centered Care: Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
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Informatics: Use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision making.
At the professional level, I have had opportunities involving areas for maturation and requiring different experience. Nursing is an experience-based industry requiring self-reflection and evaluation during critical and uncertain times. As an informal and formal nursing leader, I rely on a vision surrounding patient-centered care, reflecting the Nursing Leadership and Management Outcomes, Nurse Manager competencies, and the Graduate QSEN competencies. One influential ability that I maintain is keen self-awareness that provides a clinical nurse's integrity and discipline. The MSN/MBA in Healthcare Administration, dual degree program, is focused on competencies and leadership qualities in an evolving healthcare environment and serve as fundamental pillars to the direction of nursing processes.
I have taken on exposure to personnel development, nursing orientation, and hiring processes, coordinating care in the perioperative setting, technology integration functionality, serving on committees, cost-effective reimbursement and pricing analysis, and consistency of care. The excel exercises and financial templates have enhanced my professional nursing practice with another capable skillset. I would not have taken on these experiences, nor had an opportunity to gain involvement in other nursing management roles. I am grateful for the education and maturation in the academic sector in my professional career.
The leadership and management outcomes, nurse manager competencies, and the QSEN proficiencies reflect a series of guidelines that establish a vision. As an athletic participant at various levels throughout my career, I can recognize the influence of performance and design applicable to nursing practice that involves excellent preparation, anticipation to detail, strategizing, and an ability to forecast the macro and micro-levels of aspiration. My academic journey was not comfortable, and I experienced various obstacles; however, I learned the resiliency to overcome and achieve outcomes that were on point with the academic proficiencies and outcomes. My professional journey is far from complete. I am persistent in utilizing the skillset and education obtained to best-evidence, quality improvement data analytics, and team-centered and supportive environments.
Evidence of Growth at the University of Mary
"Servant Leadership at the University of Mary is a pattern of living marked by competence in one’s chosen profession, courage in making ethical decisions based on Benedictine values, and compassion in serving the needs of others. In a context of relationship to God, to one another, and to self, we believe that leadership is making a difference for good. Rooted in the Gospel and in the founding vision of the Benedictine Sisters to serve spiritual, intellectual, and cultural needs of others, the model for servant leadership is Jesus Himself. At the University of Mary students grow into leadership through service. Learners become leaders in the service of truth."
Benedictine Experience: Although communal life inspired by the Rule of St. Benedict stores a vast treasury of Benedictine values, six of these are of particular importance for our life here at the University of Mary . . . Father James P. Shea, President, University of Mary
Community – Striving together for the common good and growing in relationship with God, one another, and self. [Rule of Benedict 33 – “Let all things be common to all.”]
Hospitality – Receiving others as Christ with warmth and attentiveness. [Rule of Benedict 53 – “Let all be received as Christ.”]
Moderation – Honoring all of God’s creation and living simply with balance and gratitude. [Rule of Benedict 31 – “Regard all things as sacred and do everything with moderation.”]
Prayer – Attending to the mystery and sacredness of life, abiding in the Divine presence, listening and responding to God. [Rule of Benedict 4 – “Listen intently to holy readings. Give yourself frequently to prayer.”]
Respect for Persons – Recognizing the image of God in each person and honoring each one in their giftedness and Limitations. [Rule of Benedict 4 – “Honor everyone and never do to another what you do not want to be done to yourself.”]
Service – Meeting the needs of others in the example of Jesus, the servant leader [Rule of Benedict 35 – “The members should serve one another.”]
During my experiences at the University of Mary, a Servant leader is about protecting the community's welfare through discipline, moral principles, and integrity. The learning, critical thinking, and creative responses to uncertainties and obstacles are a derivative of the Benedictine values ingrained in the teachings, lessons plans, and evaluation process. The University of Mary provided education with compassionate feedback and support during evolving healthcare times to progress in the chosen professional pathways.
The two Benedictine values that are primarily beneficial during my graduate education alongside my professional development are moderation and respect for persons. During my initial graduate school onset, I discovered the fulfillment principles mimicking Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The adaptation adhered to answering the sacrifices and time management performance to practice consistency and successful outcomes. Moderation is about finding the balance of an algorithm for feeling a sense of purpose and belonging. In my experiences, moderation is about balancing professional obligations, family, friends, exercise, adventure, sleep, nutrition, and a variety of holistic practices.
People are unique and different in their sense of moderation, which is a reason for foundational respect for person comprehension. Healthcare is about training and expertise in care forms to live longer with more excellent life quality. When colleagues and professionals have conscious awareness for dignity, humility, and patient-centered outcomes - our treatment of patient conditions is sincere alongside our interactions with employees and the community. Healthcare consumers and customers need respect during vulnerable times to feel self-worth, trust in professionals, and optimism for positive outcomes.
As a Registered Nurse, I have learned the Benedictine values of moderation and respect for persons. These fundamental values are reflective of my coursework in the subsequent course pages. The Benedictine values, coursework, service commitments, and graduate cohort community have enhanced my nursing ideology within the business framework. As a nursing leader, the University of Mary community graduate competencies, Benedictine values, and leadership involvement will improve my nursing outlook and skillset as an evolving leader.
