PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT

Maddie Perrine NURS 479

 DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

• Personal Strengths: Providing patient focused care, being culturally sensitive to

patients and families, and completing thorough physical assessments
• Opportunities for Improvement: Gaining confidence in working with physicians
and using SBAR, practice with prioritization of patient care, and delegating
tasks to others
• Short-term Goals: Build confidence in skillset, use SBAR and communicate
effectively with other professionals, and practice delegating
• Long-term Goals: Gain confidence in safe dosing for pediatrics and be able to
recall pathophysiology of common diseases
 UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

• Personal Strengths: works well with a team, good at listening to others’

ideas and needs, and willingness to help others
• Opportunities for Improvement: difficulty speaking up as a new RN, a
desire for perfectionism, and difficulty taking negative feedback
• Short-term Goals: Join a committee, observe successful nurse leaders
• Long-term Goals: become a charge nurse, become a preceptor for a
nursing student or new graduate, and eventually become a nurse
manager
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Short-term Goals
• Complete pediatric advanced life support class (PALS)
• Become a pediatric chemotherapy and biotherapy provider
• Long-term Goals
• Become a critical care registered nurse (CCRN)
• Volunteer with medical missions throughout my career
• Join the Association of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses
(APHON)
 MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP BOOK

• Principle-Centered Leadership by Stephen Covey

• This book compliments my strengths and areas of improvement by
looking at the importance of having values in line with others that I
work with, it emphasizes doing what is right because it is right even
when it seems difficult
• This book benefits my professional growth by reminding me to
look at the mission of my place of work and the nurse leaders I will
be working with, motivation to look at what my principles are
 LEADERSHIP SHADOWING EXPERIENCE

• Charge Nurse on the Pediatric and Pediatric Intensive Care Units

• Benefits:
• went on rounds with the interprofessional team on both units
• learned about staffing needs and planning around unanticipated events
• learned about how to be an effective leader by showing respect to others
and having a democratic leadership style
• Learned about the importance of the charge nurse and all of his/her
responsibilities
 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification

• Rational: I chose to take this class to further my emergency skills
and become more confident in life support care
• Benefits: This class tested different emergency scenarios and
helped prepare me for codes in the future
 EDUCATIONAL PLAN

• Personal Aspirations: read nursing journals to keep up with evidence

based practice and become confident in medication knowledge
• Potential Opportunities: volunteer abroad, attend conferences
continuing nursing education
• Short-term Goals: complete nurse residency program, become a
certified oncology nurse, and attain pediatric advanced life support
(PALS) certification
• Long-term Goals: Get my masters degree in nursing, work as a charge
nurse
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Graduate and Work for 2 Work as a Become a
pass NCLEX years building charge nurse nurse leader
skillset and in Pediatric
confidence Oncology
 REFERENCES

• Covey, S. R. (2003). Principle-centered leadership. New York: Free Press.