Professional Development

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EMILY KINGSLEY
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING
(BSN)
 Direct Patient Care Abilities

 Strengths
 Ability to form therapeutic nurse-patient relationships
 Eagerness to learn/asking questions

 Opportunities for Improvement

 Increase self-confidence
 Taking on too much

 Short Term Goals (present-2 years)

 Provide competent nursing care
 Develop understanding of pathophysiology and pharmacology
 Build strong interdisciplinary team relationships

 Long Term Goals (3-5 years)

 Travel nursing and/or international nursing
 Consider serving as a member on the hospital ethics committee
 Unit Leadership Abilities
 Strengths
 Building positive relationships with staff
 Highly motivated and involved
 Desires to grow personally and professionally
 Opportunities for Improvement
 Delegation and time management
 Fear of contacting providers
 Short term Goals (present-2 years)
 Become proficient in delegation and time management
 Gain self confidence when contacting providers
 Long term Goals (3-5 years)
 Preceptor nursing student
 Consider becoming a charge nurse
 Professional Development

 Short term goals (present-2 years)

 Join journals and additional nursing associations

 Obtain ACLS and other certifications applicable to my

specialty
 Long term goals (3-5 years)
 Consider starting graduate school to obtain a Master’s degree
in Nursing in order to teach BSN students
 Work with unit leadership/managements to find opportunities
to expand on my practice (i.e. charge nurse)
 Consider serving as a member of the hospital ethics committee
 Management/Leadership Book

 Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

 How the book has complimented own
strengths and/or areas for improvement
 Think of yourself as an eternal student
to stay humble
 Delegate tasks to learn to trust in others

 How the book is beneficial to

professional growth
 Don’t let your ego hold you back

 Self awareness is key for improvement

 Change the definition of success

 Leadership Shadowing Experience

 Nurse manager of Community Living Center at Southern

Arizona Veteran’s Affair Health Care System
 How has this experience enhanced my knowledge of the
position?
 Nursing is not just limited to bedside care

 The nurse manager has many more roles and responsibility

than what is seen on the surface such as:
 Meets with other nurse managers & clinical nurse leads to
discuss quality improvements
 Attends discharge meeting to determine if patient’s are
appropriate candidates for his unit
 Hiring, firing, and scheduling staff on his unit
 Professional Activities

 Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

 Re-educated on how to act in an emergency medical and
life-threatening situation
 LifePoint Clean Needle Exchange Program
 Importance of using clean needles and supplies in efforts
of reducing HIV, viral hepatitis, and other blood borne
infections
 Sound the Alarm
 Importance of installing smoke detectors into at-risk
neighborhoods
 Educational Plan
 Personal Aspirations
 Gain clinical experience in attempt to become a travel
nurse/international nurse
 Potential Opportunities
 Grow as a nurse and take on new leadership roles
(preceptor, charge nurse, instructor)
 Short term goals
 Attend various in-service and professional activities to
expand my nursing skills
 Understand the pathophysiology and pharmacology for each
of my patients
 Long term goals
 Become a preceptor for a nursing student
 Pursue my Master’s in Nursing to teach at the BSN level
 Timeline

3-5years:
• Travel nursing
1-2 years • Consider pursuing a
Master’s in Nursing
• Be a confident nurse
• Consider serving as
6-12 Months • Understand
a member on a
pathophysiology
• Work on a hospital ethics
and pharmacology
Medical-Surgical committee
applicable to my
Present- 6 floor in Chicago patients • Become a preceptor
Months: • Build good
hospital
• Graduate from relationships
University of Arizona
• Provide competent
• Register and pass nursing care
NCLEX
• Apply for
jobs/receive job
offers within 6
months of
graduating
 References

Holiday, R. (2016). Ego is the enemy. London, UK: Penguin