NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care
Leadership

Strengths

Working well with

others as a team
passionate to give
great care to others

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Previous years of
leadership/manageme
nt employment. I feel I
treat people fairly and
I am able to keep
personal and
profession
relationships separate.

Keeping open mind and trying

out different aspects of nursing
to learn and possibly be able to
offer nursing care in different
capacities.

I need time to build

experience and knowledge
in the nursing field to
become a better qualified
Unit leader.

Find employment &

Possibly attaining a Masters

Degree to open up opportunities
for advancement into
management positons.

Journals/
Certifications

(based on your
strengths and

Gain as much knowledge

and experience as
possible. Every day as a
nurse will bring many
learning opportunities.

I plan to get my ACLS

certificate. Any others will
depend on place of
employment and what will
be needed to improve my
on job skills or
opportunities.

The Everything New

Nurse Book (Quan,
2011)

Long term goals/strategies

3-5 years

Find employment and

become an integral part
of a nursing team to
improve nursing skills and
self-confidence. I know
that entering the nursing
profession will require me
to continue learning.

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,

NURS 479
Book selection

Short term goals/strategies

Present-2 years

Date: 12/01/16

Self-confidence in my
clinical skills and
knowledge

Reliable & willingness

to work hard and learn
Unit Related
Leadership

Name: Douglas Turner

Weaknesses: Selfconfidence as new grad

nurse

CNOR- Certified operating room

nurse cert.
Dont know right now, it will
depend on place and type of
nursing employment I gain so I
can narrow down which direction
I become passionate about and
will want to pursue.

weaknesses)

This book focused on

my strength of working
well with others as a
team player. It referred
to this strength as
benefitting me in
almost all difficult
aspects of being a new
nurse.

This book explained that

my strength of working
well with others as a team
player will help me to
overcome almost all the
difficulties of being a new
nurse.

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

My leadership
shadowing experience
helped me to realize
that my ability to work
well with others is
what made me a good
leader/manager in my
previous occupation.

My leadership shadowing
experience helped me to
realize that my lack of selfconfidence in the clinical
setting is normal for new
grad and will improve with
time on the job. The
concept of working as a
team to accomplish goals
transfers over from my
previous career.

Professional
Activity/ Community
Service

St. Lukes IPEP Elder

Hearing Screening
Clinic

St. Lukes IPEP Elder

Hearing Screening Clinic

ECCC- Mass casualty

Training

Education:

ECCC- Mass casualty

Training

My professional
Activity/Community
service enhanced my
strengths by allowing
me to work as team
player with new
people and I had a
great time.

My professional
Activity/Community
service improved my
weakness by allowing me
to practice skill with
students from other
medical areas of study
helping me realize there
are others just learning
skills and lack confidence.

Study for NCLEX will

improve and further

ACLS certificate and any

other educational coarse

RN-pass NCLEX and

CNOR- Certified operating room

Continuing Nursing
Education and/or
plans for Higher
Education

prepare me to be a
nurse

that will be directly related

to position/unit,
This will help me in my
transition from student to
nurse

become licensed

nurse cert.

ACLS, Certifications-Unit
based- Gain/Improve skill
set knowledge base

MSN- Nurse Management