PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Sarah Ruth
NURS 479
 DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

• Personal Strengths:
• Organizational skills
• “Calm in the storm”
• Opportunities for improvement
• Time management skills
• Confidence in skills and nursing judgment
• Short term goals
• Gain confidence, improve time management skills
• Long term goals
• Be a resource, coordinate care efficiently
 UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

• Personal strengths:
• Direct, respectful in communication
• Take initiative
• Driven and open-minded
• Team player
• Opportunities for improvement:
• Enhancing self-confidence
• Delegation
• Perfectionism
 UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

• Short term goals

• Be a cohesive member of the unit, feel
comfortable in my abilities
• Participate in committees
• Long term goals
• Become a mentor or preceptor for nursing
students and new grads
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Short term goals

• Join a nursing organization such as the ANA
• ACLS, PALS certification
• Long term goals
• Obtain CCRN
• Work in ICU or ED
 Bossypants by Tina Fey

• This complimented feelings of self-

confidence. A main idea I took away is that it’s
okay to be exactly who you are – you don’t
have to fit the perfect ideal of what a woman
“should be”
• Bossypants is beneficial to my growth of
professional development because it
reinforced what it means to be a female
leader in today’s society
 LEADERSHIP SHADOWING

• Shadowed my preceptor as house supervisor

• I was able to see how a nurse can work in a
more managerial/behind-the-scenes position.
• Since shadowing, I now have a better
understanding of this position and what their
day-to-day looks like
 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• BLS Certification
• Completion of this course enhanced my
confidence in my CPR skills, especially in the
importance of different roles of the team, and I
feel very qualified to administer CPR.
• Food bank – Casa maria
• Volunteering to help educate the homeless
about nutrition
 CONTINUING EDUCATION PLANS

• Personal aspirations: stay current with EBP,

speak fluent Spanish, become a critical care
nurse
• Potential opportunities: become a
preceptor/mentor, become charge RN
• Short term goals: pass NCLEX, complete new
grad residency, feel comfortable on the unit
• Long term goals: obtain CCRN, become an
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
 TIMELINE

Graduate from U of A and pass the NCLEX

Gain two years of experience, then seek out

opportunities in ICU or ED

Obtain CCRN, return to school to become an

ACNP
 REFERENCES

Fey, Tina. (2011). Bossypants. New York, NY: Little,

Brown and Company.