PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

CELIA PIKOWSKI
DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES
Personal Strengths
 Medication Administration
 Comprehensive focused assessments
 IV insertion and removal
Short Term Goals
 Successfully care for two ICU
patients during one shift
 Become ultrasound certified (ICU
SWAT)
Opportunities for Improvement
 Time Management
 Creative thinking
 Education for medications
Long Term Goals
 Become trained in PICC line insertion
 Become confident in time
management with patient care
INTEGRATIVE PRINCIPLES & MODALITIES
Integrative Principles:
 Integrative nursing is informed by
evidence and uses the full range of
therapeutic modalities to
support/augment the healing process,
moving from least invasive to more,
depending on need and context
 Integrative nursing is patient-centered,
and relationship based
 Nature has healing and restorative
properties that contribute to health and
well being
(Kreitzer, 2015)
 UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

Personal Strengths Opportunities for Improvement

 Respect for others  Delegation
 Professionalism  Conflict Resolution
 Effective communication

Short Term Goals Long Term Goals

 Become respected as a member of the  Successfully work a shift as a charge
unit I began my career at nurse
 Improve my delegation skills  Effectively teach students as a nurse
preceptor
 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Certifications to Obtain Organizations to Join

 Obtain my CRRT certification  World Federation of Critical Care Nurses
(WFCCN)
 Acquire my CCRN (adult)
 American Association of Critical Care
 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Nurses (AACN)
License (CRNA)
Short Term Goals Long Term Goals
 Obtain my CRRT certification  Attend a AACN convention

 Make a donation to the WFCCN  Practice as a CRNA

(American Association of (World Federation of

Critical Care Nurses, n.d.) Critical Care Nurses, 2017)
 LEADERSHIP ROLE ASSIGNMENT

Role Chosen – Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist

 Has been a long term goal to become a CRNA
 Gives more autonomy while providing direct patient care
 Always been up for a challenge
 Certain hospitals have more autonomy
 Pros – more autonomy
 Cons – on call, weekend/night shifts needed, less trauma cases
 Still the patient’s biggest advocate
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

 Activity – The Science of Well-Being by

 Examples:
Yale University

 Helps change my personal habits to  The two most beneficial self care
become truly happier practices are exercise and adequate
sleep

 Giving me the knowledge that knowing

something is not half the battle  The GI Joe Fallacy in relation to
nursing
HIGHER EDUCATION

 Personal Aspirations  Potential Opportunities

 Own my own pet  Travel Nursing
 Travel to many different states  American Association of Critical
around the country Care Nurses

 Short Term Goals

 Long Term Goals
 Becoming a travel nurse
 Get accepted into CRNA
 Using evidenced based school
practice in everyday care
 Becoming competent in
CRNA clinical
6 months 3 years

Make a Successfully Attend a Become a Become

donation to care for 2 ACCN charge
ICU patients convention
a CRNA
WFCCN nurse
TIMELINE OF
GOALS

Become Obtain Become a Accepted

respected my student to CRNA
in unit CRRT preceptor school

5 years
2 years
 References

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (n.d.). American Association of Critical

Care Nurses. https://www.aacn.org/

Kreitzer M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: application of principles across clinical

settings. Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 6(2), e0016.

https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10200

World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (2017). World Federation of Critical Care

Nurses. https://wfccn.org/