NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan Name: Alyssa McCormick Date: April 26, 2017

Area Strengths Weakness/Opportunity for Short term goals/strategies Long term goals/strategies
Improvement Present-2 years 3-5 years

Direct o Organized o Patient discharge o Develop a nursing tool o Be an organized and time
o Hard-working teaching/teaching in specific to unit to stay efficient nurse
Patient Care
o Compassionate general organized o Be able to anticipate the
Leadership o Be more prepared with o Develop a tool for needs of my patients
information when paging doctors with physically and emotionally
paging/calling doctors needed/relevant
o More time efficient information
during patient care
tasks/coupling care
Unit Related o Reliable o Being able to say, no o Improve delegation o Precept nursing students, or
Leadership o Respectful o Being able to skills new hires
o Mature delegate/not do o Be a reliable core
o Timely everything myself nurse
o Wanting to make
everyone happy and be
their friend
Professional o Obtain ACLS o Attend WIS conferences
Nursing certification o Read journal articles related
Development: o Stay up to date with to WIS and pediatrics
Organizations,
evidence based
Journals/ practice
Certifications

NURS 479 o Perfectionism

Book selection o Needing to do
(based on your everything myself
strengths and o Being able to delegate
weaknesses) o How to prioritize

Leadership o Learned information on

Shadowing breastfeeding and
Experience
 pumping mothers
o Techniques on how to
help breastfeeding or
pumping mothers
Professional o Reinforced
Activity/ Community advanced pediatric
Service life support skills
o Reinforced
reading/interpretin
g EKGs
o Teamwork
o Organization
Education: o Motivated o Become a preceptor o Become a charge nurse
o Organized for both students, and o Become a nurse manager
Continuing Nursing
Education and/or o Cooperative new nurse hires
plans for Higher o Knowledge of skills
Education