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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Lizette Rodriguez's professional development plan. It identifies her strengths and areas for improvement in direct patient care, unit leadership, and professional development. It establishes short-term goals like becoming PALS certified within 2 years and long-term goals like obtaining her MSN and becoming a pediatric nurse practitioner within 5 years. The plan also discusses how Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has helped her growth and a leadership shadowing experience as a charge nurse.

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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Lizette Rodriguez's professional development plan. It identifies her strengths and areas for improvement in direct patient care, unit leadership, and professional development. It establishes short-term goals like becoming PALS certified within 2 years and long-term goals like obtaining her MSN and becoming a pediatric nurse practitioner within 5 years. The plan also discusses how Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" has helped her growth and a leadership shadowing experience as a charge nurse.

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Professional

Development Plan
Lizette Rodriguez
Direct Patient Care Abilities
 Personal Strengths
 Professional bedside manner
 Advocacy for patients
 Provide compassionate and holistic care

 Opportunities for improvement


 Confidence in nursing skills and knowledge
 Delegation
 Time management
Direct Patient Care Abilities
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Build confidence in nursing skills through direct
experience
 Perform professional delegation
 Strengthen time management skills

 Long-term goals (3-5 years)


 Be able to recall medication side effects and
pathophysiology of numerous diseases
 Continue to enhance critical thinking skills
Unit Leadership Abilities
 Personal Strengths
 Reliable
 Interprofessional collaboration
 Flexible, patient, and understanding
 Accepts constructive criticism for improvement

 Opportunities for improvement


 Perfectionist
 Handling conflict
Unit Leadership Abilities
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Join a committee
 Become a charge nurse on the unit
 Be active in quality improvement projects

 Long-term goals (3- 5 years)


 Become a nurse manager on the unit
 Precept nursing students or new graduate nurses
Professional Development
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Become Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
certified
 Become CCRN certified (Neonatal)

 Long-term goals (3-5 years)


 Join American Nurse’s Association
 Become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Leadership Book
 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R.
Covey
 Ways it has complimented my strengths
 Proactive focus
 Character and communication
 Areas for improvement
 Time management
 Delegation
 Ways it has benefited my personal growth
 Allowed me to evaluate the center of my Circle of
Influence
 Application suggestions
Leadership Shadowing
Experience
 Charge Nurse
 Rationale: To understand the full role and
responsibilities of a charge nurse.

 Enhanced my knowledge:
 Learned about different the duties of a charge nurse
 Learned more about hospital staffing/ratios
 Rounded on the unit and got updates on patients
 Collaboration and communication with nurses on
different floors
Professional Activity
 Volunteered in the SILC Lab
 Rationale: To assist with completing tasks before the
start of the semester
 Able to see how much work goes into simulations
 Able to see how long it takes to prepare lab kits for each
semester

 Volunteered at The Salvation Army Hospitality House


 Rationale: To give back to the community
 Able to see how much work goes into preparing meal
 Taught about utilizing resources available
Educational Plan
 Personal aspirations  Short-term goals
 Educated on up to date (Present- 2 years)
evidence-based practice  PALS certified
 Certified Spanish  CCRN (neonatal)
translator
 Long-term goals (3- 5
 Potential opportunities years)
 Be accepted into a  Earn Master’s of
Master’s Program Science in Nursing
 Become charge nurse  Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner
Timeline
Graduate/ Pass NCLEX

Build confidence and strengthen


nursing skills

CCRN certification

Become charge nurse

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner


References
 Covey, S. R. (1989). The 7 habits of highly effective
people. New York, NY: Free Press.

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