NURSING 479 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Molly Turner
December 9, 2019
Final Evaluation PowerPoint
DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES
• Strengths • Goals
• Hardworking • Short Term
• Team Player • Long Term
• Gentle/Compassionate Nature • Integrative Modality
• Areas for Improvement • “Integrative nursing is person
• Quiet centered and relationship based”
• Time Management
• Hard on self Kreitzer M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: application of
principles across clinical settings. Rambam Maimonides
medical journal, 6(2), e0016. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200
UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES
• Strengths • Short Term Leadership Goals
• Approachable • Mentor for new nurses
• Ability to See Others Opinions • Help Student Nurses
• Even-Tempered • Join Unit Committee
• Areas for Improvement • Long Term Leadership Goals
• Confrontation • Leadership Position on Unit
• People Pleaser
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Short Term Goals • Long Term Goals
• Complete a Nurse Residency • Obtain my Critical Care Registered
Program Nurse (CCRN) certification
• Join National Organizations • Become exposed to caring for patients
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support on Extracorporeal membrane
(PALS) Certification oxygenation (ECMO) and become an
ECMO certified nurse
• Keep up on Evidence Based practice
related to my patient population
“OWN YOUR EVERYDAY: OVERCOME THE
PRESSURE TO PROVE AND SHOW UP FOR
WHAT YOU WERE MADE TO DO”
• Author: Jordan Lee Dooley
• Each chapter points out a different lesson many of us
struggle with and shifts the perspective from trying to prove
to understanding your purpose.
• “Overcome Comparison with Compassion and
Communication”
• “Overcoming Perfectionism by Prioritizing”
• “Focus on Who You Are, Not What You Do”
Dooley, J. L. (2019). Own your everyday: overcome the
pressure to prove and show what you were made to
do. New York: WaterBrook
LEADERSHIP SHADOWING EXPERIENCE
• Charge Nurse Shadow Experience
• Northwest Medical Center- Neuro Unit
• All 8 Hours
• Saw charge nurse role, duties, and expectations
• “BAT” calls
• Allowed myself to see what being a charge nurse entails
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Basic Life Support (BLS)- 3 hours
• Explains interventions when an individual has suffered from cardiac arrest, respiratory distress,
or choking
• Teaches most up-to-date CPR skills for adults, children, and infants, as well as how to use an
AED.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)- 2 hours
• Course to learn how to resuscitate a newborn at the time of delivery and the team approach
for doing this.
• “Stop the Bleed”- 4 hours
• Course to teach how to react in situation where individual is severely bleeding, and how to
perform lifesaving interventions
CONTINUING EDUCATIONAL GOALS
• Personal Aspirations • Short Term Goals
• Work in a Pediatric Cardiac • Establish a position on a pediatric or
Intensive Care Unit NICU unit
• Become involved with helping • Show my interest in working with
high acuity patients on my unit
children who have been abused
• Volunteer at advocacy centers for
• Become nursing educator abused children
• Potential Opportunities • Long Term Goals
• NICU New Graduate Position • Return to school to become
educator
CONTINUING EDUCATION AND
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE
December February August March
2019 2020 2020 2021
Graduate from the Pass my NCLEX Feel more confident Complete Nurse Residency
University of Exam and begin RN as New Graduate in program.Volunteer with
Arizona College of Residency in NICU NICU. Join unit organization that works with
Nursing with BSN. at Saint Luke’s. committee. Obtain abused children.
PALS certification.
December March August January
2021 2022 2022 2023
Work on pediatric cardiac Begin CCRN Care for patients on Return to advance in my
unit or pediatric CICU. certification process. ECMO and begin education to work as
Work as preceptor for Work with legislation to certification process. clinical educator.
nursing students. improve child abuse
screen processes.
REFERENCES
Dooley, J. L. (2019). Own your everyday: overcome the pressure to prove and show what you were
made to do. New York: WaterBrook
Kreitzer M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: application of principles across clinical
settings. Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 6(2), e0016. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200
