Professional

Development
Erika Deianni, BSN Cohort Dec 22
Defining My Future as a Nurse
Direct Patient Care Abilities

Areas for
Strengths Short term goals Long term goals
improvement
• Compassion • Clinical skills • Complete an • Effectively read
• Communication • Clinical day ICU shift on my EKG strips
• Flexibility planning own with 2 • Confidence in
patients calling and
• Feel confident responding to
in strong patient critical care
assessments emergencies
 Integrative Modalities
and Principles
Patients are
inseparable • Community
from their • Family
environment • Health care providers
s

Nature has • Open windows

healing • Turn on nature
properties sounds/channel on TV

(Gozum & Ilgaz, 2022)

 Unit Leadership Abilities

Areas for
Strengths Short term goals Long term goals
improvement
• Honesty • Visionary • Develop • Precept for a
• Integrity Outlook confidence in soon to
• Consistency • Confidence nursing clinical graduate nurse
• Assertive • Delegation skills • Be a clinical
Communication • Develop nursing
stronger instructor at
delegation skills PCC
 Professional Development

Organizational Short term Long term

Certifications
Membership goals goals

• American • Certification in • Join AACN and • Achieve

Association of Critical Care attend one certification in
Critical-Care Nursing (CCRN) conference within CCRN
Nurses (AACN) • Advanced two years • Complete one field
• Global Nursing Cardiovascular Life • Utilize ACLS during assignment with
Caucus Support (ACLS) critical care crisis Doctors without
situation in ICU Borders

(AACN, 2022) (Doctors without Borders,

2022) (Global Nursing Caucus, 2022)
Book Choice: The Leader’s
Guide to Unconscious Bias
Why ?
• Address oppression and systemic bias in self /system
Complement my strengths
• Recognize my own biases
• Values and beliefs of justice and accountability
Identify my weaknesses
• Learning to address them in practice
• Supporting others to address their own biases
Application to practice & growth
• Cultural humility and respect with patients and team
• Practice allyship and decolonization within healthcare

(Fuller, 2022)
 OR Charge Nurse: Why?
To gain perspective on ED, ICU, and Peri-OP
Coordination

What have I Learned?

Leadership High-level coordination between units, competing
personalities, flexibility and communication
Assignment required

Enhanced Knowledge…
Relationship building is essential, calm under
pressure, creativity, and experience in multiple
units necessary
Professional Activity Experience: The
Science of Well-being

Future impact:
New Knowledge:
Career where challenge, growth
Build on core strengths, prioritize and potential intersect, and
self-care and personal obtain overall greater
life/relationships, seek fulfillment satisfaction/well-being
over financial wealth

(Santos, 2022)
Higher Education/Continuing Education

Personal aspirations Potential Opportunities

Proficiency in French Border Region Work
Desert gardening class Medical Spanish
certification

Short term Goals: Long Term Goals:

Volunteer border clinics Certification: Global
Attend Disaster Response Health
Training NNEPI Critical care in refugee
camp abroad
(NNEPI, n.d.)
 Timeline of Goals

Attend Disaster
Volunteer Medical
Join AACN CCRN Prepared
at Clinica Spanish
AACN Conferenc Cert -ness
Amistad Cert
e Training

< 6 months < 1 year < 2 years

Precept Do field
soon to rotation at Work as a rural Teach a nursing
graduate Doctors ambulatory nurse course at Pima
nurse without Border Region Community College
Borders

3-4 years < 5 years

References
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. AACN.org. (2022). https://www.aacn.org/

Doctors Without Borders - USA. (2022). https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

Fuller, Pamela. (2022). Leader's Guide to Unconscious Bias: How to reframe bias, cultivate connection, and create

high- performing teams. Simon and Schuster.

Global Nursing Caucus. (2022). https://www.globalnursingcaucus.org/

Gozum, S., & Ilgaz, A. (2022). Applying integrative nursing principles to practice: An example from theory to practice.

Journal of Education and Research in Nursing, 19(3), 362–370. https://doi.org/10.5152/jern.2022.92342

National nurse emergency preparedness initiative. NNEPI. (n.d.). https://nnepi.org/

Santos, L. (2022). The science of well-being. Coursera. https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-science-of-well-being