NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care

Strengths

Safe nursing practice

Communication skills

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Confidence in abilities
Delegation

Leadership

Unit Related
Leadership

Respectful and
Lack of leadership
courteous to all
experience
Feeling inferior to those
members of the
medical team
with higher education or
Welcomes constructive
in management
criticism

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,
Journals/
Certifications
NURS 479
Book selection
(based on your
strengths and
weaknesses)

Respect the
Know that delegation takes
physicians
time to learn
Know the scope of practice
knowledge
Communication is not
or job description of a
always verbal
person whom you
Safety is one of the
delegate tasks to
primary issues facing A nurses role is just as
the health care
vital to a patient as a
industry
doctor, just in a different
way

Name: Samantha Helms

Short term goals/strategies
Present-2 years

Date: 12-1-2016
Long term goals/strategies
3-5 years

Goal: Delegate tasks to

PCTs

Goal: Gain confidence in my

abilities

Strategy: Gain experience

in delegating tasks to
PCTs

Strategy: Keep a journal of

moments I feel unsure or
insecure and how I dealt with it
and what I could do to improve

Goal: To not feel inferior

to others

Goal: Be a charge nurse

Strategy: Gain experience

working with all members
of the medical team
allowing myself to feel a
part of the team and not
inferior

Strategy: To be trained as a
charge nurse.

Goal: Obtain more

certifications

Goal: To be a part of a nursing

committee

Strategy: Take a class to

obtain ACLS certification

Strategy: Join a committee

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

Shadowing an
Shadowing a charge nurse
occupational
allowed me to gain
therapist in the NICU
knowledge on the
strengthened my
responsibilities of a
abilities to safely
charge nurse and what a
feed a neonate
leadership role entails
Shadowing a charge
The charge nurse I
nurse and an
followed seemed to be
occupational
respected by staff nurses
therapist gave me
because she was
insight on other
approachable. This
professions and that
experience made me see
all members of a
there is no reason to feel
medical team should
inferior.
be respected for their
contribution

Professional
Attending a mass
Activity/ Community
casualty training, I
Service

From my mass casualty

training experience, I
learned safety
learned the delegation
measures when in a
and leadership skills
crisis
needed that could help
Taking an
save lives in a crisis
By taking the
aromatherapy
course, I learned how
aromatherapy course, I
to safely prepare the
found that by furthering
oils for patient use
my knowledge and
experience I could be
more confident in my
abilities.

Take continuing
Take continuing education
education
courses
courses to increase my
Continuing Nursing
that are required but
confidence in my abilities
Education and/or
also out of interest to
as well as immerse
plans for Higher
Education
further my
myself into new
Education:

Goal: To become a
registered nurse
Strategy: Pass the NCLEX
by studying Kaplan

Goal: To be a nurse practitioner

Strategy: Be accepted into a
DNP program.

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experiences