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Graduate study challenges and strategies for personal success Samantha Benjamin-Nurse HCS/504 10/07/13 Marilyn Ketchum

Pursuing a Master’s Degree at University of Phoenix in Health Care Informatics will help with achieving my lifelong goals. My decision to do this program is as a direct result of my hospital embracing Electronic Medical Records July 2012, creating a Clinical Informatics Department to which I am aspiring in the near future. Personally I like working with computers and because of the advancements in technology, I want to see everyone becoming computer literate in relations to the line of work, hence my interest in becoming a member of our clinical informatics team makes the programs therein work for my coworkers.

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Graduate studies, unlike undergraduate studies, require more in-depth, explorative reading. This enables the student to gather theoretical knowledge. Research plays a vital role here as well as application to solve the complex problems of today’s professional-driven world. Graduate studies cover a wider area and higher level of studies that displays writing skills and evidence to defend one’s thesis. In the end, it produces a thesis containing higher level of learning, displaying theoretical exploration of a wide knowledge base. This paper attempts to outline my graduate study challenges and strategies for personal success.

My personal goals for pursing graduate studies are as follows:
1. To widen my knowledge base in a world where education is the only way forward.
2. To become financially able to provide for my family the finer things in life that I believe mankind should be privy to.
1. To make my father, my siblings, and my children proud of me because I am the only one in a large family of nine girls and two boys to ever make to college and complete my Bachelor’s of Science Degree.

My professional goals are as follows:
1. To become marketable in the job market.
2. To obtain

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