Personal Development Plan

Tanya Darkwah
 Direct Patient Care Abilities

Personal Strengths
-Compassionate
-Honest
-People Person
-Committed Short-Term Goals
-Build confidence in my skills and ability
-Develop an efficient way of charting
Long-Term Goals
Opportunities for Improvement Become an excellent patient advocate

-Lack of confidence due to -Provide care that is sensitive to the patients needs and maintain patient
dignity.
inexperience
-Lack of efficient method of
charting
-Lack of assertiveness
Unit Leadership Abilities

Personal Strengths
-Pays close attention to detail
-Great organization skills
Opportunity for Improvement Short-Term Goals
-Gain assertiveness that is required when in the leadership role.
Lacks the assertiveness required -Become proficient in supervising and guiding nursing staff

due to inexperience as a nurse. Long-Term Goals

-Become an excellent unit charge nurse on a labor and delivery unit

-Lack the experience needed to

supervise and guidance to assist
the nursing staff with difficult
patients or patients that have
special needs.
Professional Development

Short-Term Goals
Become a member of the Association of Womens Health, Obstetric
and Neonatal Nurses Journal.
-Become a member of the AORN Journal
Long-Term Goals
Become a member of the Journal of Midwifery and Womens
Health (JMWH), which is the official journal of the American
College of Nurse-Midwives.
 Management/Leadership Book: The One
Minute Manager
Comliments Strengths
Enhance my time management and goal setting strategies.
-Learned tools that help me reach my full potential.
Book shows area of improvement
-Learn to manage myself and the people I work with so that both the organization I
work for and the people I encounter profit from the encounter.
-Feel good about myself and my abilities because I will use time more efficiently.
Feeling good about yourself is key to getting more done.
Benefical to Professional Growth (Blanchard & Johnson, 2003)
-Teaches me tools on how to become more efficient with time management, which is
said to improve confidence.
Leadership Shadowing Experience

Gain a better understanding of the duties of a charge nurse.

Gained the opportunity to visualize effective strategies on how to
defuse conflicts between nursing staff and patient.
Gained insight into creating schedules for the upcoming shift.
Professional Activities

Experience Enhanced Knowledge:

IPEP at St. Lukes Home
-Gained insight into the importance of working with other
professionals in the healthcare system to deliver the best patient
care possible.
Mass Causualty
-Tourniquet application
-Teamwork
Goals Timeline

Gain Experience
Pass the NCLEX Become a lactation
on a L&D unit
Obtain (NRP) specialist
(August 2017-
(June 2017) (August 2018)
2018)

Apply and get Become a nurse Work as a nurse

accepted to a Nurse midwife midwife at Ashland
Midwife Program (August 2022) Community Hospital
(August 2019) (September 2022)
Continuing Education

Personal Aspirations
-Begin taking courses to prepare for nurse midwife program
Potential Oppertunities
-Gain enough hours (1000 hours) to study to become a lactation specialist
Short-Term Goal
-Become a board certified lactation specialist
-Become a charge nurse on a L&D unit
Long-Term Goal
-Become a Nurse Midwife
References

Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. (2003). The One Minute Manager. New

York: Harper Collins