NURS: 479

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
POWERPOINT
Alex Frisby
 Overview of Direct Patient Care Abilities
• Cognizant (knowledge of and aware of patient needs), compassionate,
Personal Strengths flexible

Opportunities for • Communication skills, time management, confidence

improvement

• Improve nursing fundamentals, establish myself in my unit and become a

Short-term goals/strategies (≤ strong patient advocate, and work on establishing nurse-patient
2y) relationships

• Become proficient in nursing care of patients, take care of more complex

Long-term goals/strategies (3- patients, and be able to take care of a wide variety of patient populations
5y) with various illnesses/disease processes (ICU)

Use of Integrative Modalities • Meditation, use of touch, music, art, and simple conversation
incorporated into practice
Unit Leadership Abilities
• Personal strengths:
• Critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to solve
complex problems, organized, reliable, calm, accountable,
and have genuine compassion for patient care
• Areas for Improvement
• Time management, prioritization of activities/responsibilities,
work on putting myself out there more
• Short-term Goals/strategies (2y)
• Solidify my fundamentals and basic experience in nursing
care, become a reliable employee and someone others can
look to for help and guidance
• Long-term Goals/strategies (3-5y)
• Become the charge nurse of the unit I am on, work closely
with management in my facility to make changes in the
hospital I work, create a unit milieu that facilitates learning
and growth
 Professional Development
Goals

Short-term
goals/strategies
Join committees in the hospital I work such as the ethics
(≤ 2y) committee, and outside organizations such as the American
Nurses Association (ANA) and the Academy of Medical-
Surgical Nurses (AMSN)

Long-term
goals/strategies
Obtain certification to precept, become a certified emergency
(3-5y) nurse (CEN), certified registered nurse anesthesiologist
(CRNA), and eventually a certified nurse manager and leader
(CNML)
Management/Leadership Book Selection
and Review
■ It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good
You Want To Be.
– By Paul Arden

”The person who doesn’t make mistakes is

unlikely to make anything.”
• Role chosen for shadow/research and why?
• Case Manager (CM)

• How the experience enhanced your knowledge of the position?

• Background, knowledge, experience = efficient CM
• Multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary communication
• Work closely with CM to best implement care and plan for discharge

Leadership Role Assignment

 Professional/Community Activities
• Online course on happiness provided by Yale
University

Enhanced my knowledge Nursing practice:

on:
- Self care - Serve as a reminder for what makes me
- Mindfulness happy and appreciate what I have
- Overall general health - Decrease burnout
- Psychology behind happiness - Increase job satisfaction
Higher Education/Continuing Education
• Personal aspirations
• Travel the world, learn new hobbies and try things I have never done
before, give back to my family and community, overall help make the
world a better place
• Potential opportunities
• Go back to school, obtain new or different degree, acquire certifications,
attend conferences and facility opportunities for learning and growth
• Short-term goals/strategies (≤ 2y)
• Obtain certifications and licensure, and practice/gain confidence in my
basic nursing skills/knowledge
• Long-term goals/strategies (3-5y)
• After practicing for a few years, I would like to return to school and
obtain my DNP. Travel abroad and learn/serve rural and underserved
areas, and eventually with enough years of practice I would like to
support future nurses through school (Mr. & Mrs. Barnes)
 Visual Timeline of Goals

Spring of
2024- Spring
of 2025
Aug. - Dec. 2027-
May 2022 • Join
2022 organizations • Return to school
• Graduate • Obtain first such as ANA and for DNP
• Earn BSN nursing position AMSN • Travel

June/July Fall of 2022- 2025-2027

2022 Fall of 2023 • Earn
• Pass NCLEX • Solidify basic certifications
nursing such as CEN,
knowledge and CRNA, CNML
skills • Establish
• Establish myself proficiency in
within a unit nursing practice
• Transfer units to
ED, or ICU
References
■ Arden, P. (2003). It's not how good you are it's how good you want to be. New York,
NY: Phaidon Press