Professional Development
CHLOE HEENAN, BSN (MAY 2019)
Direct Patient Care Abilities
v Personal Strengths v Short-term goals (present to 2 v Integrative modality utilized
years) while caring for patients:
v Kindness
v Use the integrative nursing v #3: Nature has healing
v Patience
principles and restorative
v Empathy properties that
v Confidently care for a full
Opportunities for Improvement contribute to health and
v patient assignment with
wellbeing.
v Improve therapeutic complete care & high acuity
communication patients v Always encouraged patients
to go outside in nature (if
Confidence in critical v Long-term goals (3-5 years)
v able), or open a window to
thinking v Have experience caring for a view nature
v Remain positive despite wide variety of patient in
difficult situations at work different units
v Excel in patient care abilities
Unit Leadership Abilities
v Personal Strengths v Short-term goals (present to 2 years)
v Nursing preceptorship experience in the v Become ACLS & PALS certified
step-down cardiac ICU
v Improve leadership skills
v Involved and actively participating in
interdisciplinary communication v Long-term goals (3-5 years)
v Opportunities for Improvement v Gain experience working as a charge
nurse
v Confidence while applying leadership
principles on the unit v Become proficient in my leadership
abilities as an RN
v Ability to communicate with team members
regarding leadership opportunities and
their opinions
Professional Development
v Short-term goals (present to 2 years)
v Obtain RN licensure through successfully passing the NCLEX examination
v Gain employment in a new nurse residency program
v Work at Banner UMC in any unit available (preferably oncology)
v Long-term goals (3 to 5 years)
v Complete employment on a high acuity unit
v Transition to Labor and Delivery nursing or Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
v Enter a master degree program in nursing
Management/Leadership Book
v Your First Year As A Nurse: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful Professional
(second edition) by Donna Caradillo
v Complimented areas for improvement by:
v Offers tips on how I can create positive relationships with the patient care teams
v Applies me with advice on how to foster healthy habits to avoid burnout
v Beneficial to my new nurse professional growth by:
v Was able to provide myself, as a new grad nurse, with answers to many topics that are
confusing
v Allows new nurses to feel comfortable while reading despite their lack of work
experience
v Targets nurses to help create own style of nursing and how to find the right job for you
Leadership Shadowing Experience
v SWAT Nurse, at Banner University Medical Center (service all hospital units)
v How did this enhance my knowledge of the position?
v Shadowed the SWAT nurse for a day
v Came to fully understand the position and what services SWAT nurses
provide
v Prior to the experience I was led to believe that they were the “IV Team”
v Learned that it is a competitive positions that requires management and
high acuity experience
Professional/Community Activity
v Weekly Colloquium: Problems in the Biology of Complex Disease (Jan-May 2019)
v Highly renowned professional attended the U of A College of Medicine to provide
lectures to professors, students, or anyone interested
v Flyers were posted throughout the medical library in Banner UMC and College of
Medicine
v Attended the lectures discussing genetics in complex disease, pharmacogenetics,
neurogenetics diseases, and the environmental microbiome
v Spread knowledge, awareness of evidence based practice, and educate on new
biological findings found via research
v Led an interdisciplinary discussion with other health students (pharmacy, medicine,
and nursing)
Goals Timeline
May 2019:
August 2019:
Become a college July 2019: Gain employment
graduate with a Bachelor Effectively prepare for through a new graduate
of Science in Nursing and take the NCLEX in nurse residency program
from University of Phoenix, Arizona at Banner
Arizona
August 2025:
August 2022 :
Begin to pursue a
Begin working towards a
doctoral degree in
Masters degree in
Nursing to become a
Nursing
nurse practicioner
Education Plans
v Personal Aspirations v Short-term goals (present to 2 years)
v Gain a master degree in nursing with a v Attend Kaplan NCLEX prep course
specialization towards women's health
v Gain RN license through passing the
v Work on multiple units to gain experience in NCLEX
many different units to build resume
v Become ACLS certified
v Potential Opportunities
v Long-term goals (3-5 years)
v Employee tuition reimbursements through
v Graduate from a master degree program
Banner
in Nursing
v Network with Banner employees to make
v Be admitted to a Doctoral program to
connections to move to different units
become a nurse practitioner
v Online classes (through U of A or ASU)
References
Cardillo, D. (2010). Your First Year As a Nurse, Second
Edition: Making the Transition from Total Novice to Successful
Professional. Three Rivers Press.
