Final Clinical Evaluation

BY: ANGELA MAT THEW

Direct Patient Care Abilities
Personal strengths: Compassionate, personable, timely, organized

Opportunities for improvement: Working on my initial shyness, self critical

Short term goals up until 2 years: Continue to learn and gain valuable skills as a
new grad RN

Long term goals within 3-5 years: Continue to increase cultural competence

Integrative modalities: Hot packs, cold packs, deep breathing exercises

Unit Leadership Abilities
Personal strengths: Team player, excellent communication skills, good
active listener, critical thinking skills

Opportunities for improvement: Learn to say no if I am overtasked

because I like to help everyone

Short term goals (present -2 years): To know all the policies and audit
checks thoroughly

Long term goals within the next 5 years: To become a charge RN on the
floor, potentially a preceptor
Professional Development-Certifications and
Memberships
Short term goals (present -2 years)
• Become Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certified
• Maintain Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

Long term goals (3-5 years)

• Complete my CEN-Certified Emergency Nurse
• Member of Emergency Nurse’s Association (ENA)
• Member of Arizona Nurse’s Association (AzNA)
 Management/Leadership Book
Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving your Emotional Intelligence by Michael
Cornwall
• Catchy title and emotional intelligence (EI) is not frequently presented in lecture
material
Complimented Strengths
• I found myself agreeing with the author frequently
• I have myself already using some of the strategies presented in the book
Areas for improvement
• Continue to grow my EI as I continuing maturing throughout life as I feel that I
have only recognized it within the past 2 years or so
Benefits to professional growth
• I will need to use the emotional intelligence strategies in the workforce as I cannot
let outside forces disturb my mentality and positive state of mind
 Shadowed a Supplemental Work And Transition
(S.W.A.T.) Registered Nurse at Banner University
Medical Center for 8 hours

Leadership Enhanced by knowledge of the position by:

Shadowing •Learned how I can contact and ask a S.W.A.T nurse
Experience for help as a floor nurse
•They are an additional resource to the hospital
•Very knowledgeable and showed leadership skills
by taking on a nursing role during codes, rapids
 Professional Activities
2 activities I partook in:

1. SILC Volunteering with Yvette (4 hours) 08/25/2019

2. Active Shooter/Stop the Bleed training (4 hours) 10/02/2019

Enhancement of knowledge from the experiences:

• Learned how simulations work and are set up
• Learned what to do if there is an active shooter
• Learned how to stop an active bleed of a likely trauma patient with different modalities in day
to day life
 Educational Plan
Aspirations
• DNP or FNP
Potential opportunities
• MSN or DNP through UArizona, ASU, GCU as I will be living in Phoenix
Short term goals (present -2 years)
• Become educated and certified as a CEN
• Maintain BLS and ACLS certifications
Long term goals (3-5 years)
• Within 5 years I foresee myself looking to continue my education and research
DNP programs
 Visual Timeline of short-term and long-term
goals

Short-term goals by 2022:

Continue Know unit
ACLS certified,
new grad policies and
maintain BLS
learning audits

Long-term goals by 2025:

Be charge Prospect
Become a
RN, Join ENA DNP
CEN preceptor programs
References
Cornwall, M. (2012). Go suck a lemon: Strategies for improving your emotional intelligence. San Bernardino, CA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.