NURS 479 Professional Development Grid

Area

Strengths

Name: _Megan Custis_______ Date: 11/25/16

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Short term goals/strategies

Present-2 years

Direct
Patient Care
Leadership

Organization
Communication
Compassion

Lack of experience
Teaching
Time management

Unit Related
Leadership

Team collaboration
Delegation
Use of resources

Interprofessional
Collaboration
Lack of Unit specific
knowledge

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,
Journals/
Certifications

NURS 479
Book selection
The Everything
New Nurse
Book by Kathy
Quan

Importance of good
communication
Taking care of
yourself

Whole chapter with

advice on time
management
Use the time as a new
nurse to gain
experience and ask for

Goal: Improve time

management skills
Strategy: develop an
organization tool
personalized to me
and the unit I work on
and form a routine for
each shift
Goal: learn unit
policies and
procedures
Strategy: increase
knowledge of policies
and procedures and
make sure I am
practicing them
correctly
Goal: Be a member of
a critical care nursing
organization
Strategy: Join the
American Association
of Critical-Care Nurses
Goal: Subscribe to a
nursing journal
Strategy: Obtain more
information about
different journals and
their credibility

Long term goals/strategies

3-5 years

Goal: Increase level of

experience
Strategy: continue working
as a nurse, utilize each
experience as an
opportunity of learning,
watch a mentor and ask
for help when I need it
Goal: become a charge
nurse
Strategy: gain more
experience as a nurse,
shadow a charge nurse,
and learn duties

Goal: Become certified as a

critical care registered
nurse (CCRN)
Strategy: Take a CCRN
review course, study test
material, and become
certified


Leadership
Shadowing
Experience with
charge nurse at
NW

Communication
Organization
Experience

Professional
Activity/
Community
Service
volunteering in
the SILC and
attending Mass
Casualty
Training

Increased
knowledge of mass
casualty and active
shooter situations
Gained teaching
experience
Give back to the
CON

Education:
Continuing
Nursing
Education
and/or plans for
Higher
Education

Want to keep
learning
Value of education

help
Take advantage of time
for teaching
Lots of responsibilities
In rotation
Motivation of other staff
members and care
team
Short amount of time
Somewhat superficial
knowledge
Did not know what I
was teaching about to
prepare
Some participants were
already in nursing
school and knew about
the SIM mannequin I
was showing
Financial means
Motivation to return to
school immediately

Goal: Graduate with

BSN and pass NCLEX
Strategy: study and
attend Kaplan prep
class
Goal: Stay up to date
with best practice
recommendations
Strategy: participate in
continuing education
courses and gain
knowledge and credits

Goal: Attend Nurse

Practitioner Program
Strategy: gain experience
as a nurse and develop
better patient care and
leadership skills