Professional

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By: Karyssa Cleveland
 Direct patient care abilities
Strengths:
★ Ability to connect with
patients and form
relationships
★ Ability to react to patients
in timely manner
(completing triage, giving
meds, answering call
lights)
Improvement chances:
★ Need to increase
assertiveness with
patients
★ Need to decrease the
time of an effective
assessment
 Goals and integrative modalities
Short term goals: Long term goals:
★ Gain experience with ★ Acquire growth within position/
interdisciplinary teamwork to become charge
improve care of patient ★ Take classes to continue education to
★ Encourage patients to engage improve care (ex ones offered by the
in their care American Nurses Association)

Integrative modalities used with patients: human beings are

whole systems inseparable from and influenced by environments
and integrative nursing is person centered and relationship based
 Unit leadership abilities
Leadership qualities we’ve discussed: organized, put others first, meets
what current generation needs, trust and compassion.

My strengths: My areas to improve:

★ Approachability ★ Assertiveness
★ Kindness ★ Ability to delegate
★ Good communication ★ Confidence
Short term goals: Long term goals:
★ Create trust in the unit ★ Become a charge nurse
★ Facilitate good ★ Acquire more accreditations
interdisciplinary
communication
Professional development goals
★ Organization membership:
○ Emergency Nurses Association Short term goals:
★ Join ENA
○ American Nurses Association
★ Acquire both
★ Professional certifications:
advanced skills
○ Acute/Critical Care Nursing (CCRN)
Long term goals:
○ Certified Emergency Nurse (CEN) ★ Become a CEN
★ Conferences: ★ Attend a
○ Lynn Sage Breast Conference conference
★ Advanced skills:
○ Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
○ Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
 Management / leadership book
selection Start with Why by Simon Sinek
★ I chose this book because I’ve always had the belief that an
explanation is better than a “just do as i say” so i wanted to see what
else the book had to offer.

Compliment my strengths: Help identify my weaknesses:

★ Emotion is believed over reason
★ Understanding the cause creates
more support
★ Creating trust
★ The “why then how then what”
method
★ The idea that external
motivators are less convincing
(like pay)
Application to practice and growth
★ I will apply this to my future as a nurse by:
○ Explaining the why to patients in order to form trust with them
○ Recognizing that not everyone has the same health literacy and
medical understanding
○ Will help me grow by initiating a why then how then what
method
■ While i do value the “why” it is not always what I put first
Leadership assignment
★ Charge Nurse:
○ Realistic and attainable goal within the next years
○ Currently intimidated by going back to school
○ My preceptor was charge and I got some experience
★ What I Learned:
○ Charge nurses were originally curated because there were so
many preventable errors happening.
○ This experience enhanced my knowledge by telling me more
about the better care patients are able to receive since the
implementation and waits to achieve this role.
 Professional activity experience
★ Experiences completed:
○ COVID-19 bundle from the American Nurses Association
○ Included modules on moral resilience and solving ethical dilemmas as well
as preventing compassion fatigue
★ What I learned:
○ All of the modules were very interconnected
○ Self-care comes in many forms
○ It is important to choose a facility with similar beliefs as me
★ Application to future practice:
○ It is important I understand my own personal morals and self care strategies
before entering the field/ stressful situations
○ Making sure I prioritize self care
Higher education/ continuing
education
★ The idea of more school is very intimidating to me
★ Becoming a charge nurse seems like the most attainable next step for
me

Short term goals: Long term goals:

★ Continue my education ★ Become a charge nurse
via the new grad program ★ Participate in research
★ Acquire my ACLS
 Form relationships and Join nursing
Secure a job
establish myself on a organizations and attend
unit conferences

Timeline of the Acquire more nursing

next couple years accreditations

Become Charge
Nurse