Professional

Development
Faith Cleary
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
Strengths Short-term goals
● Nurse-patient trusting ● Successfully insert IVs on the
majority of my patients during
relationship
first year
● Time Management ● provide education to my patients
● Comprehensive Patient throughout the course of their
Assessment hospital stay
Areas for Improvement Long-term goals
● Patient education ● Complete nursing care on a
● IV insertion medical mission trip
● Feel competent with medical
● Confidence in skills
spanish
 Integrative Modalities/Principles
Human beings are whole systems inseparable from and influenced by
their environment
● View patients “whole” needs- mind, body, spirit
● personalize environment
Integrative nursing is person-centered and relationship-based
● Authentic listening
● Recognize the patient as a person, know their story
Use of a full range of therapeutic and conventional modalities starting
with the least invasive
● Draw on evidence-based practice
(Kreitzer 2015)
● Distraction, massage, breathwork, heat, ice
 Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths Short-term goals
● Hard-worker ● improve delegation
● Good communication ● Understand the scope of practice
with team members of all the healthcare workers on
the floor
Areas for Improvement Long-term goals
● Relinquishing ● Act as a preceptor
control ● Become a charge
● Delegation nurse
● Confrontation
 Professional Development
Short-term goals Long-term goals

● Join a committee at the hospital ● Become a certified pediatric

I will be working at after nurse (CPN)
graduation ● Contribute to research for a
● Obtain ACLS certification nursing journal
 Management/Leadership Book Selection
Why this book?
● I feel that my own thoughts and perspectives can sometimes hold
me back from my own success
● I want to continue to grow rather than be stagnant
How does it complement my strengths?
● I am dedicated and a hard worker
● I am self-aware and can identify areas I need to improve
How does it identify my weaknesses?
● I can be close-minded and reactive rather than proactive
● I can neglect the importance of my own self-care
Application to practice & growth
● Allows continuous growth and promotes interdependence,(Covey, 2004)
communication, collaboration
 Leadership Assignment
Role Chosen Knowledge Gained
● Nurse Practitioner Research Paper
○ interested in pursuing this path ● The role of a NP
○ I have never familiarized ● Scope varies state to
myself on what exactly is state
involved with becoming and ● I must designate a
being a nurse practitioner specialty before
entering program
● By 2025, need DNP to
become a NP
 Professional Activity Experience
My Experience
The Science of Well-Being
Purpose:
○ to learn what psychological
science says in terms of
achieving true happiness
○ teach strategies to help
promote happiness
○ allow successful
implementation of those
strategies.
Knowledge Gained
○ Learned about our minds and how
to obtain true happiness
○ Our minds lie to us
○ People need to invest more in
experiences rather than
materialistic items (extrinsic
motivation)
○ Learned realistic ways I can
promote self-care daily
 Higher Education
Personal Aspirations Short-term goals
● Grow skilled within my ● Pass the NCLEX
speciality of pediatrics ● Finish my new grad
● Master more advanced skills nurse residency
● Make a lasting impact in program
people’s lives
Potential Opportunities Long-term goals
● Nurse residency program at Dell ● Apply to a DNP program
Children's Medical Center ● Become a nurse
● Certification within pediatrics practitioner
● U of A DNP program
 Timeline

3 years 5 years
May 2023 Sep. 2023 Jan. 2023 Sept. 2024 (2026) (2028)
Graduate BSN Start job as Get my ACLS Complete new Become a charge Apply to DNP
program pediatric RN certification grad program nurse, be competent in school,
medical spanish become NP

July 2023 Dec. 2023 May 2024 Jan. 2025 4 years (2027)
Pass the NCLEX Join a committeeFeel confident in Become a Nursing mission trip,
on the unit, learn IV skills, preceptor and contribute to
scope of all delegation, and get CPN nursing research
workers on the providing certification
floor thorough
education
 References
Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people. New York, NY: Free Press.

Kreitzer, M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: Application of principles across clinical settings. Rambam Maimonides Medical

Journal, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.5041/rmmj.10200