PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
Gabriella Avitia

PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

Strengths
Therapeutic communication
Bedside Manner
Evidence Based Practice
Professionalism
Areas for Improvement
Time management
Delegation skills
Experience

PATIENT CARE ABILITIES GOALS

Short Term Goals
Pass NCLEX
Emergency department RN position
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certificate
Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN)
Local medical community volunteer
Continued Education (CE)
Strengthen Spanish speaking
Long Term Goals
Certified Trauma Nurse (CTN)
Medical missions trip outside of the country
Community volunteer organization leader
Fluent Spanish interpreter

UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

Opportunities for
Strengths
Improvement
Communication skills Making decisions on what is
Encouraging teambest for the unit as a whole
work
Inexperienced with the
Creating positive
clinical ladder
environment
Strengthen my ability to
Enforcing ethical
work in all emergency
standards
department Pods.
Strong work ethic
Organization skills

UNIT LEADERSHIP GOALS

Short Term Goals

Learn clinical ladder
Join a unit council
Focus on developing a strong professional relationship with staf
CE courses

Long Term Goals

Become charge nurse
Joining a hospital wide council
Networking within the clinical ladder
Demonstrate improvements on the unit from a clinical perspective and a business
perspective

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Short Term Goals
Long Term Goals
-Emergency Nurse
-Become board member of
Association (ENA)
ENA (President of chapter)
member
- Certified Trauma Nurse
-Sigma Theta Tau
(CTN)
Member
-Begin Nurse Practitioner
-Subscribe to Lupus
Program
Journal
- Attend International
-Subscribe to ED Journal Conferences
-Active alumni
association
-CEN
-CE

The Nurses Etiquette Advantage

By Kathleen D. Pagana
This book has addresses relevant business
etiquette for nurses. I found the topics on
interviewing skills, networking skills, and how
to be confident in a business setting helpful
for strengthening my areas of improvement. I
found this tip: appearance is never neutral it
either adds or detracts from a professional
image to be especially meaningful.
This book will be useful for future
professional growth because it introduces
skills that are essential for a professional
nurse to have. I am beginning to practice
using these networking skills, and
interviewing skills. This will help me develop
a polished professional image.

Pagana, (2008)

EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT CHARGE NURSE

SHADOWING EXPERIENCE
This was a wonderful experience that
enhanced my knowledge of the entire
department and the charge nurse role.
I was able to see first hand how the charge
nurse is a resource for the department.
Shadowing allowed me to see how much
experience is necessary to be a charge nurse.
I have a better understanding of unit
constraints and strengths from the
experience.
This is an essential experience that all new
graduate students should have because it
allows you to see the big picture of the

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
ADVANCED CARDIAC LIFE SUPPORT
During the course I improved my
understanding of a code situation.
Wonderful way to review EKG
information.
Was helpful to review closed loop
communication, team work, and
pharmacology
In addition to completing the online
course Wanda Larson created a
lecture separating types of code
emergencies and the correct
treatment of them.
Practicing code situations in a group
was a magnificent experience that tied
together all of the learning concepts.

GOALS TIMELINE

1-2
years

3-4
Years

5-6
Years

PALS certificate, begin Spanish classes,

continued education (CE) conferences,
CEN Certificate, active alumni member,
active ENA member, unit based council, CE
ENA Board Member, CTN certificate, join
hospital wide council
charge nurse, CE national conference,
medical missions trip, fluent Spanish
interpreter
Demonstrate improvements to my unit,
research & apply for Nurse Practitioner
program
Begin Nurse Practitioner program

EDUCATION PLAN
Personal
Aspirations &
Opportunities
Attend a minimum
of 2 continued
education classes a
year.
Active ENA member
attending
conferences
Attain CEN, & CTN
certificate
Pursue a Nurse
Practitioner Degree
in 5-6 years.

Short Term Goal:

-Focus on transitioning from
new graduate nurse to
emergency department nurse.
-Focus on transitioning to a
trauma nurse
-Focus on continued education
and certificates
Long Term Goal:
-Climbing the clinical ladder to
charge nurse position
-Research potential programs
-Take prerequisite courses
-Apply and be accepted into
Nurse Practitioner program

Reference Slide

Pagana, K. D., (2008). The nurses etiquette

advantage:
How professional etiquette can
advance your nursing career. Indianapolis,
IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.