Professional

Development

By: Nicole
Blackburn
 Direct Patient Care Abilities

● Strengths ● Short Term Goals

○ Critical thinking, ○ Individualized care
flexibility, positive ● Long term Goals
attitude ○ Continuing education
● Opportunities for ● Integrative Modality
Improvement ○ “Nature has healing and
○ Confidence, restorative properties
assertiveness, that contribute to health
organization and wellbeing.”
Unit Leadership Abilities

● Strengths ● Short Term Goals

○ Versatility, ○ Charge nurse
Communication, position
Respectfulness ● Long Term Goals
● Opportunities for ○ Travel nursing
Improvement position
○ Assertiveness,
Delegation, Quick
decision-making
Professional Development

● Organizations ●● Short
Short Term Goals
Term Goals
○ Hospitals in Tucson ○ Gain experience and
area establish myself
● Journals
● Long Term Goals
○ Self reflection
● Certification ○ CCRN Certification
○ CPR, IHI
 ● Rationale
Management /
○ Applicable, learn from
Leadership Book experienced nurses
● Complementary Aspects
○ Resilience, self-care
○ Assertiveness,
self-advocacy
● Personal Benefits
○ Boosted
self-confidence,
knowing I’m not alone
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
Leadership Shadowing Experience

CHARGE NURSE ● Knowledge

● Rationale Enhancement
○ Next position on the ○ I know what I can ask
chain of command my charge
above a nurse ○ Daily routine
○ Closest position I
could attain in the
future
Professional Activities

IPEP Opioid Seminar EKG Concepts Online Activity

● Rationale ● Rationale
○ Opioid crisis is very ○ Knowledge I need daily in
prevalent the ICU, personal
● Knowledge Enhancement weakness
○ Different perspectives, ● Knowledge Enhancement
reliable information ○ Interpretation and critical
○ Naloxone training thinking
Educational Plans

● Personal Aspirations ● Short Term Goals

○ Never stop improving, ○ Opportunities for
ever changing info seminars and online
● Potential Opportunities classes
○ Mayo Clinic Talks ● Long Term Goals
Podcast ○ CCRN
○ WHO online trainings
 2020-2022
ICU Position: Tucson/Phx
- Establish my skills & gain basic
experience
- Individualized care
- Charge Nurse position
- Seminars and online courses
Timeline
2022-2025
Travel Nursing: NYC, TX,
IL/WI, WA/OR, CO, HI
- Sign with a travel nursing agency
- Continuing education
- CCRN
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