2019

Professional
Development
Presentation
Ashley Nichól Baire
College of Nursing University of Arizona
Welcome
1 Who am I?

2 Why I chose Nursing?

3 POP QUIZ: On average,

how many miles does a
nurse walk each shift?

4 Thank-you and enjoy!

 Direct Patient Care Experience (SOSL)
Strengths Opportunities for
Improvement
• Organized
• Determined • Task-oriented
• Disciplined • Too critical of self
• Flexible • Attempting to
S SHORT-TERM
GOALS
Holistic
please everyone
LONG-TERM Short-term
GOALS Integrative Long-term
Modality
S Goals
Goals
L STRENGTHS
• Recommend revisions
of POC • Accountability
OPPORTUNITIES

O • Therapeutic • Culturally
Interventions competence
• Assess needs
• Document in a timely
manner
 Unit Leadership Abilities

Personal Opportunities for Short Term Goals Long Term Goals

Strengths Improvement
• Effective • Quality
• Emotionally • People Pleaser Communication Improvement
Intelligent • Perfectionist • Professionalism Processes
• Critical • New nurse jitters • Delegation • Servant
Thinking Leadership Style
• Empowering • Behavioral
Others standards for all
• Integrity employees
 Professional Development
Short-Term Goals
1. Within the first year, I will become
a part of the American Association
of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN).
2. By end of first year, become a
member and receive the Critical
Care Registered Nurse (CCRN)
and American Journal of Critical
Care (AJCC) to be up to date with
information.
3. By start of second year, become
a member of the American
Nurses Association (ANA),
Arizona State Board of Nursing,
and the American Red Cross.
4. By end of second year, become
CCRN certified
Long-Term Goals
1. After 3 years
a. Expertise Development
b. Develop work repertoire
c. Tight grasp of healthcare
and healthcare reform
2. After 5 years, access
possible tuition
reimbursement opportunity
for DNP
American Association
of Critical-Care Nurses
Journals
Leadership Management
Book Complimenting
Strengths/Weaknesses
• say NO, it is ok
(Braiker, 2001)
• Nursing is Teamwork

Professional Growth
• Autonomy and
Independence
• Change of mindset
• ”I would prefer”
 Leadership Shadowing
of Charge Nurse

Forefront of Patient Reinforcer of

Quality Advocate/ vision,
Improvement Nurse mission,
Plans Advocate values (Marquis
& Huston, 2017)
 Professional Activities
Stop the Bleed Active Shooter
Trained Trained

Education Awareness Applicable to

ALL
• MS in Nursing Clinical Systems and
Informatics
• QSEN
• MS in Nursing Education; Health/Care
Coordination
• Become a Care Coordinator or
Navigator
• Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Educational Endeavors • Capella University BS to MSN – Care
Coordination/Navigator
• Uarizona: Integrative Nursing Fellowship
• Uarizona Continuing Nursing Education:
Professional Care Coordination for 21st
Century Healthcare Systems Certificate
Program
• x6 month, self-paced, cheap
• Uarizona DNP Program

Personal Aspirations Potential Opportunities

Short Term Long Term

Goals/Strategies Goals/Strategies
• By 2024, I will obtain my MS in
• By 2022, I will obtain my CCRN certification
Clinical Systems and Informatics or I
• By 2022, I will be a preceptor for preceptees
will obtain my MS in Nursing
on my unit
Education
• By 2023, participate in the UArizona:
• By 2030, I will obtain my Doctorate of
Integrative Nursing Fellowship
Nursing Practice in Acute Adult
• By 2023, become a Charge Nurse on the MICU
Health
 Goal Timeline
• Achieve competency as
a beginner nurse.
• Apply for 2nd year • Participate in the • Begin Nurse Practitioner
Fellowship UArizona: Integrative School
• Apply for membership: Nursing Fellowship • Continue to pursue
ANA, Red Cross, and • Become a Charge other nursing routes via
AZBON Nurse on the MICU new MS
Vision
2020 2022 2024

2030

2021 2023 2025

• Enter into a one-year • Become CCRN certified • MS in Care

• Obtain Adult Acute
Nurse Residency • Become Preceptor on Coordination/
Care Nurse
Program with Banner MICU Navigation or
Practitioner License
in Nursing
Health MICU • Become a holistic,
• AACN, CCRN, AJCC Clinical
patient-centered
Systems and
focused provider
Informatics
 References
Braiker, H. B. (2001). Disease to please: curing the people-pleasing syndrome. McGraw-Hill Education - Europe.

doi: 0071385649

Marquis, B. L., & Huston, C. J. (2017). Leadership roles and management functions in nursing: theory and

application (8th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health.