Professional

Development
Vanessa Ho
Direct Patient Care Abilities
• Strengths:
• Therapeutic communication
• Empathy
• Opportunities for Improvement:
• Critical thinking
• Confidence
• Integrative Modality:
• Deep breathing
• Heat and ice
• Music (Calming instrumental)
• Short-Term Goals:
• Become comfortable with the RN
role
• Detailed and timely shift report
• Long-Term Goals:
• Make timely, effective, and safe
decisions for patient care (critical
thinking)
• Apply most up-to-date evidence-
based care
Unit Leadership Abilities

• Strengths: • Short-Term Goals:

• Team player • Learn how to boost team
• Positive attitude morale
• Opportunities for • Long-Term Goals:
Improvement: • Become a preceptor
• Delegation • Become a charge nurse
• Assertiveness
Professional Development

• Short-Term Goals
• Obtain advanced cardiovascular life support (ACLS)
certification
• Get a job in the ICU
• Join the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
• Become a certified critical care registered nurse (CCRN)
• Long-Term Goals
• Apply to a DNP program
https://www.aacn.org/membership/membership-benefits
Leadership Book

• Strengths:
• Congruently expressed values
• Areas for Improvement
• Value results and relationships
• Professional Growth
• Aim to be a serving leader
• Focus on improving

(Blanchard & Miller, 2009)

Leadership Shadowing Experience

Charge nurse on the acute care telemetry unit

• Rationale:
• Learn about responsibilities of handling a unit of patients and staff
• Gain experience for the future when a charge nurse role is available
• Knowledge gained:
• Coordinate patient placement on unit and staff assignments
• Keep a record of all discharges and admissions on the unit
• Serve as resource for other nurses
Professional Activity

COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Volunteer at Nogales Port of Entry

• Rationale:
• Learn more about how a vaccine clinic is set up and operated
• Knowledge gained:
• “Conveyor belt” process
• Everyone has designated role and there is very little deviation
Educational Plan
• Personal Aspirations
• Not be complacent
• Potential Opportunities
• Conferences
• Continuing education credits
• Graduate programs
• Short-Term goals
• ACLS certification
• Become a CCRN
• Long-Term goals
• Nurse practitioner
Timeline of Goals

January
January Februar 2025-
2021- March y 2023- ICU
Pass 2021- Charge travel
NCLEX ACLS nurse nurse

February February February January

2021- 2022- 2024- 2026-
Start job Transfer Become a Apply to
to an ICU CCRN and a DNP
Preceptor program
References

Blanchard, K. & Miller, M. (2009). The secret: What great leaders know and do (2nd

ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. (2021). Membership Benefits.

https://www.aacn.org/membership/membership-benefits