Mary White

Direct Patient Care Abilities

Personal Strengths Opportunities for Improvement
 Moral imagination • Increase confidence in nursing skills

 Interpersonal communication • Prioritizing patient care needs

skills

 Time management
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
Short-term Goals
 Become more confident in
nursing skills
 Continue to develop solid
critical thinking skills
Strategy:
 Begin career at a hospital that
offers a new graduate nurse
residency program
Long-term Goals
 Perfect my patient advocacy
skills to ensure quality care
 Continue to treat patients
according to most recent
evidence-based research
Strategy:
 Work to build quick and strong
relationships with patients
 Continue education to stay
updated and deliver thorough
care
 Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths Short-term Goals
 Promote teamwork • Become a charge nurse
 Positive, eager attitude
Strategy:
• Develop the necessary skills to be a
 Ability to delegate
confident unit leader by shadowing
charge nurses, reading leadership books
Opportunities for Improvement
 Confidence to become a unit Long-term Goals
leader • Become a nurse manager
 Inability to say “no”
Strategy:
Demonstrate leadership abilities while being
charge nurse to become a manager
 Professional Development
Short-term Goals Long-term Goals
 PALS certification  CRFN
 TNCC  CCRN
Strategies: Strategies:
 Study for certifications  Gain experience in the
 Take the necessary classes to ICU/Trauma/ED
become certified  Study and pass exams
 Leadership Book
Complementing Strengths Benefits for Professional Growth
• Humor  “Over! Under! Through”! (Fey,
• Interpersonal communication 2011, p. 131)
• Attitude
 Finding balance between
Areas for Improvement coddling and being overly stern
in leadership roles
 Inability to say “no”
Leadership Shadowing Experience
Observations Knowledge Gained
 House supervisor  Organization is crucial to allow
hospital to run smoothly
 Role of management position
 Team mentality to provide
 Professionalism
support

 Professionalism and key

 Coordination of care
understanding of nurses needs
 Professional Activity
Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support Certification
Rationale for Attending:
 Expand my knowledge on best practices for providing life-saving
interventions in critical care settings
 Expand my teambuilding and critical thinking skills

Knowledge Gained:
 Differentiate strategies to enhance safety and provide current best practice
care to patients in a code or life-threatening situation
 Build a solid understanding of the reasons behind proper delegation during
high stress situations
 Understand team dynamic and teamwork during high stress situations
 Educational Plan
Personal Aspirations
• To work in New York City as a new
graduate nurse
 To become an emergency medicine
nurse practitioner
Potential Opportunities
 To work with Nurses Without
Borders
Short-term Goals
 Obtain my PALS and TNCC to continue
my education in pediatrics and also
trauma nursing
Strategy:
 Study and enroll in these courses to pass
the certification and keep skills updated
Long-term Goals
 Become a flight nurse
 Obtain DNP
Strategy:
 Work in the ICU/Trauma/ED and obtain
necessary certifications and training
 Timeline
March
2026:
March
Become
2024:
March Nurse
Become a
2022: Manager
March flight nurse
Become a and apply
2021:
March travel nurse to nurse
Become
2020: Have practitioner
February Charge RN
completed program
2019: Start
December PALS,
career in
2018- TNCC and
PICU or
January new
ICU
2019: graduate
position in
Graduate program
new
and pass graduate
NCLEX nurse
program
References
 Fey, T. (2011). Bossypants. New York: Reagan Arthur Books/ Little,
Brown and Company.