Professional Development

Hailey Hughes
 Direct Patient Care Abilities

Opportunities for
Personal Strengths
Improvement
• Time-Management • Building confidence
• Empathy • Prioritizing tasks
• Work-ethic
 Short-Term Long-Term
Goals (Present-2 Goals (3-5
years) years)

Goals: Goals:
1. Continue to grow

Direct Patient
1. Complete a New- and focus on the best
Graduate Residency interest of all patients
Program
Care Abilities 2. Develop critical
thinking skills
2. Become a preceptor
on my unit

Continued
Strategy:
Strategy:
1. Focus on the overall
1. Begin career in a needs of the patient
new graduate program
2. Complete preceptor
and work hard to
certification and learn
develop critical
critical thinking skills
thinking skills
to teach others
 Implemented
Integrative Modality
“Nature has healing and restorative properties that
contribute to health and wellbeing”
 Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths: Short-Term (Present-2 years):
• Team-Player Goal: Become a reliable
• Personable member of the nursing team
• Easygoing Strategy: Lend a helping-hand
when needed and be someone
Opportunities for others can count on
Improvement: Long-Term (3-5 years):
• Delegating Tasks Goal: Become Charge Nurse
• Critical thinking skills Strategy: Develop the necessary
skills to lead a unit through
shadowing charge nurses
 Short-Term Goals Strategies:
(Present-2 years):  Work hard
 ACLS certification  Study
 PALS certification  Pass exams

Strategies:
Professional Long-Term Goals (3-5  Gain experience
Development years): as an RN in
Oncology
 OCN certification
 BMCTN certification  Pass certification
exam
 First year nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and What I Wish I’d Known My First
100 Days on the Job

• Positive Attitude
Complimenting • Time-Management
Strengths:

Leadership Areas for

• Techniques for delegation
• Handling death

Book Improvement:

Beneficial in • Strategies to benefit a new

nurse
Professional • Outlines how to build
Growth: professional relationships
 Rationale Gained Knowledge

Involved & informative Has a versatile role in

the hospital
Critical thinking Oversees patient care
Leadership Role-model for the A resource for the
hospital hospital
Research
Experience
 Professional Activity
Urgent Specialist’s Urgent Care (COVID-19 testing)
 Rationale for Attending:
 Interest in expanding knowledge and skillset on COVID-19 (testing and
disease process/management)
 Knowledge Gained:
 Different strategies to promote safety and provide best care to patients with
COVID-19
 Education on COVID-19; symptoms, management of the disease, incubation
period, etc
 SHORT-TERM (PRESENT-2 YEARS):
Goal: Obtain certifications (OCN and BMCTN ) to continue my education in a broad spectrum of areas to provide myself with a
foundation
Strategy: Study and work hard to pass the certifications to take the necessary steps to further my education as a new graduate nurse

LONG-TERM (3-5 YEARS):

Educational Goal: Go back to school to become a Nurse Practitioner
Plan for the Strategy: Work hard as a floor nurse and in the future apply to
Future schools to become an NP

PERSONAL ASPIRATIONS:
To obtain necessary certifications and critical thinking
skills to be the best nurse I can

POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES:
To serve and enlighten individuals in a third-world
country (Africa) on a mission trip
 December February- March 2022 Fall 2023 March 2024 Fall 2027
2020-January March 2021 Become become a Apply to a
Complete New
2021 Start career in a OCN and charge nurse Nurse
Graduate on my unit Practitioner
New Graduate BMCTN
Graduate/ Pass Residency certified program
NCLEX Residency Program and
Program have PALS and
ACLS
certification

Timeline
 References
• Arnoldussen, B. (2016). First year nurse: Wisdom, warnings, and what I wish I’d known my first 100
days on the job. New York: Kaplan Nursing.