Objective: To think about and clarify professional purpose.

Note: The professional goal must in the healthcare management industry.

1. Write the professional purpose or mission.

Practice the purpose principle by writing your responses to the following questions as they relate to your professional purpose:

a. What am I trying to accomplish?

b. What is the process(es) or activity(ies) involved in the response to a? (Be sure to use an active, not directional, verb.)

c. What is the purpose of the response to b?

d. What is the purpose of the response to c?

e. What is the purpose of the response to d?

f. What is my purpose according to my patients, clients, or customers?

g. What may larger purpose eliminate the need to achieve this smaller purpose altogether?

h. What is the right purpose for me to be working on? Describe how this purpose differs or does not differ from my original purpose.