Professional

Development
Nicolas Lettera
N479 Spring 2021
 Patient Care Abilities

▷ Timely ▷ Family ▷ Shorten charting ▷ Guided

▷ Adaptive Communication time Breathing
▷ Patient ▷ Physician ▷ Family/physician ▷ Guided
Centered Communication communication Imagery
▷ Charting ▷ Integrative methods ▷ Healing
▷ Patient experience Touch
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 Unit Leadership Abilities

▷ Involvement as ▷ Become trusted,

▷ Delegation
a Leader looked up to
▷ Saying no when
▷ Assessing ▷ Able to lead
necessary
opinions of all veteran staff
▷ Trusting and not
team members ▷ Charge nurse
“helicopter-ing”
▷ Attitude and ▷ Seen as a leader
over team
communication by physicians &
members
style managers 3
 Professional Development
▷ Acquire ACLS Certification
▷ Subscribe to or Access at least
1 academic journal of interest
and read each publication
▷ Research and Join a
professional nursing
organization.
▷ Become CCRN certified
▷ Begin precepting students
and new grads
▷ Move to larger ICU
▷ Begin to search for CRNA or
other advanced degrees
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 Management and Leadership Book
▷ Compliments to My Strengths
○ Desire to heal and serve
○ Compliments patient centered
care
▷ Improvements to my Weaknesses
○ Learning to say no
○ Asking for help when needed
○ Acknowledging the self-
destructive possibilities.
(Braiker, 2001)
▷ How I found This Book
Beneficial
○ Realized and began
addressing my largest
weaknesses.
○ Acknowledged self-
destructive behavior.
○ Taught me to view my
morals/actions through
a different, more
holistic lens. 5
Leadership Shadowing Experience
▷ Leadership Position
▷ CRNA
▷ Knowledge Gained
○ CRNA scope of practice
○ Academic path and requirements
○ Degree and title earned
○ Benefits and advantages of a CRNA
(American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, 2020)
(Simonson, Ahern, & Hendryx, 2007)
(Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists, 2020). 6
 Professional Activity
▷ COVID Webinars
▷ Healthcare preparedness
▷ Value of expert opinion
▷ Alternate avenues of education
▷ Happiness Course
▷ Hedonic adaptation
▷ Self biases
▷ Psychology and the science behind happiness
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 Continuing Education and Personal Plan

▷ Become a role ▷ New grad class ▷ CCRN

model ▷ Clinical educator certification
▷ Daisy Award and senior RNs ▷ CRNA or other
▷ Patient ▷ Professional advanced
Recognition organizations practice
▷ Healthy ▷ Hospital/unit ▷ MSN Ed.
work/life committees
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 Goal Timeline • End career as an educator
• Look back on my career with
• CCRN Certification admiration, satisfaction, and
• Begin precepting a sense of achievement
• Search for CRNA Program • Feel that I have made a
• Move to larger ICU difference

Short Term Long Term End Of

5+ years
(0-2y) (3-5y) Career

• Confidence
• Efficiency • Enroll in CRNA Program
• Safety • Begin practicing as a CRNA
• Knowledge • MSN Ed.
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 References
▷ American Association of Nurse Anesthetists (Ed.).
(2020, February). Scope of Nurse Anesthesia Practice.
Retrieved February 25, 2021, from
https://www.aana.com/docs/default-source/practice-
aana-com-web-documents-(all)/professional-practice-
manual/scope-of-nurse-anesthesia-practice.pdf?
sfvrsn=250049b1_6
▷ Braiker, H. B. (2001). The Disease to Please: Curing the
People-Pleasing Syndrome. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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 References
▷ Simonson, D. C., Ahern, M. M., & Hendryx, M. S.
(2007). Anesthesia Staffing and Anesthetic
Complications During Cesarean Delivery: A
Retrospective Analysis. Nursing Research, 56(1), 9–17.
https://doi.org/10.1097/00006199-200701000-
00002
▷ Texas Association of Nurse Anesthetists. (2020). For
hospital administrators. Retrieved February 25, 2021,
from https://www.txana.org/for-hospital-
administrators 11