Professional

Development by
Amanda Stevens
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
• Personal Strengths: • Short Term Goals:
• Active listener • Improve on patient
• Compassionate & advocacy
Empathetic • Understand patients
• Therapeutic values and beliefs
Communicator • Long Term Goals:
• Understand more about
• Improvement the patients disease
Opportunities: process and
• Building Confidence medications
• Time Management • Coordination of care
• Trusting my instincts
 Unit Leadership Abilities
• Personal Strengths: • Short Term Goals:
• Communication • Get Involved
skills • Earn respect from
• Team player coworkers
• Professional • Command
appearance Presence
• Improvement • ACLS
Opportunities: certification
• Speaking up • Long Term Goals:
• Delegating to others • Charge nurse
• Confidence • Preceptor
• Time Management • Mentor
 Professional Development
• Short Term Goals: • Long Term Goals:
• Begin a certified • Become a trauma
nurse residency nurse with
program (ICU) certification
• Certified in all • CCRN certification
circumstance life • Earn trust of
support areas different providers
(ACLS, BTLS, • Work at a teaching
etc..) hospital
• EKG competency
 Management/Leadership Book: First Year
Nurse: Wisdom, Warning, & What I Wish I
knew the First 100 days
• Strengths:
• How is book beneficial in
• Communicating with terms of beneficial growth?
challenging patients • Starting off on the right
• Rapport with coworkers foot
• Talks about how to
continue growing in the
• Areas for Improvement: profession
• Organizational skills • Building rapport with
• Balance between work-life coworkers
• Gives advice on how to
• Keeping energy up and
stay informed with new
stress down
information
• Organizational Skills
 Leadership Shadowing
Experience
• Rapid Response Team aka SWAT:
• Rationale: very interested in high acuity care in ICU,
Trauma, or ED and rapid response is a very big part
on these units
• Skills include:
• Quality assurance
• Start difficult IVS
• Improve patient outcomes
• Communication skills
• Delegating
• Highly educated and experienced
 Professional Activity
• Taught the elderly how to stay healthy in the winter months at
Oro Valley Church

• Watched 4 DNP presentations

• How the experience enhanced your Knowledge:

• Reviewed things learned first semester
• Taught me topics that I had heard of before
• Learned the importance of the elderly staying healthy in the winter
 Visual Timeline of Long term
& Short term goals
• 1 month- Graduate from the University of Arizona
Nursing program
• 2 months- Take the NCLEX and pass
• 3 months- begin my nurse residency ICU program
• 6 months- become certified in ACLS
• 2 years- Become charge RN on ICU
• 3 years- Start the MSN program
• 5 years- switch from regular ICU to level 1 trauma ICU
 Educational plan
• Personal Aspirations:
• Lifelong Learning
• Grow on the ladder of the
company
• Certified Level 1 Trauma
Nurse
• Potential Opportunities:
• Specialty training
• Job training (PICC)
• Continue education courses
• Short Term Goals:
• Attend Seminars/
Workshops
• Self learn about more
diseases
• Long Term Goals:
• Certified Trauma
Nurse (CTN)
• Master of Science in
Nursing (MSN)
• Acute Care Nurse
Practitioner (ACNP)
 References

• Arnoldussen, Barbara. (2009). First year nurse:

Wisdom, warnings, and what I wish I’d known my
first 100 days on the job (3rd ed.). New York, NY:
Kaplan Inc.