Professional

Development
Victoria Haros

N479

April 20, 2021

 Opportunities for
Personal Strengths Improvemnt
• Pays attention to detail • Patient chart look up
• Head-to-toe assessments • Personalizing comments
• Listen to concerns

Direct Patient Care Abilities

Goals
Integrative Modality Short Long

• • Help improve patient’

Create nurse-patient
• Therapeutic touch relationships health literacy
• Become confident in
abilities
 Opportunities for
Personal Strengths Improvemnt
• Communication • Delegation
• Team oriented

Unit Leadership Abilities

Short Term Goals
Long TerM Goals

• Become comfortable with • Be trained for charge nurse

delegating role
• Become confident by myself
 Professional Development

Short
Term
● Pass the NCLEX
● Hired onto a general med-surge
floor in a New Grad Program
● Become accustomed to unit
environment
Long
Term
● Vascular access certified
● Work in the pediatric population
● Possibly continue education
 Leadership Book
“First Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and
What I wished I’d Known MY First 100 Days on
the Job”,
By Barbaras
Arnoldson

Complimenting Personal
Benefits oF Book
Strengths/Improvement

• Avoid personalizing • Real life

patient comments experiences
• Strengthen role on team • Tips on handling
• Delegation situations
Leadership Shadow Paper
Charge Nurse Role

● Researched the position to obtain knowledge on

the role
● Learned about basic requirements
● Learned of their responsibilities on the unit
 Professional ActivitY
Interprofessional Education: Addressing Obesity
using a Weight-Inclusive Model

● Knowledge gained
 Different methods to address obesity in the
adult populations
 Enhanced knowledge on alternative methods to
promote healthy weight
 Cultural sensitivity
 Self-assessed biases
 Educational Plan
● Personal Aspirations
 Obtain certifications
● Personal Opportunities
 New grad Program opportunity at Banner in
general adult med-surge
 Periop opportunity at Carondelet St. Josephs
● Short-term Goals
 Pass the NCLEX
● Long-term Goals
 Eventually work with the pediatric population or
at a trauma center
 Visual Timeline
Year 4
Present- 1 year Hopefully working on either a pediatric
floor or emergency department within
Pass the NCLEX and start a New Banner UMC
Grad Program at Banner UMC.

Year 5
Possibly become a preceptor
Year 2-3 for new nursing students.
Continue working and become
comfortable with my work
environment. Attempt to move
towards pediatric population
or trauma care
References
Nursing, K. (2017). First Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and
What I Wish I’d Known My First 100 Days on the Job. Kaplan
Test Prep.