PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
CAROLINA MEDINA
 O V E RV I E W

01 Direct Patient Care Abilities

05 Leadership Role

02 Unit Leadership Abilities

06 Professional/Community Activities

03 Professional Development
07 Higher Education

04 Management/Leadership
08 Visual Timeline of Goals
D I R E C T P AT I E N T C A R E
ABILITIES
Strengths Opportunity for Improvement
• Compassion/Empathy • Adaptability
• Prioritize Care • Time Management
• Cultural Humility

Integrative Care

Person-Centered & Relationship-

Short-Term Goals Long-Term Goals
• Improve time management skills. • Strengthen critical thinking
• Improve medication knowledge. skills.
• Adapt to a routine that optimizes
patient care.
Based
Evidence-Based Care from least
invasive to most invasive.
UNIT LEADERSHIP
ABILITIES
Strengths Opportunity for Improvement
• Effective Communication • Stress Management
• Resilient • Assertiveness

Short-Term Goals Long-Term Goals

• Improve stress management. • Become a mentor to new nurses.
• Increase self confidence and • Engage in quality improvement
assertiveness. projects.
PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

Specialize as a certified critical care nurse.

Join the American Association of Critical Care Nurses.

Obtain the Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse.

S H O RT- T E R M G O A L S
• Be employed in a post critical care unit.
• Participate in clinical skills training for advanced life
support.

LONG-TERM GOALS
• Become a hospice nurse.
• Increase networking within the nursing community.
THE DISEASE TO PLEASE:
CURING THE PEOPLE-
PLEASING SYNDROME

“The disease to Please is a compulsive-even addictive-behavior pattern.

As a people-pleaser, you feel controlled by your need to please others
and addicted to their approval.”

Strengths: Empathetic, Conflict Avoidance, Collaborative

Area for Improvement: Prioritizing self, Saying No, Niceness

Professional Impact: Increase assertiveness, self-esteem, adaptability

LEADERSHIP
SHADOW
Supports the staff on the unit, quality assurance &
CHARGE NURSE compliance, patient advocate, effective
communication.

Leadership in action
IMPACT Coordination skills
Problem-Solving
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Casa Alitas

ANA: Focus on Mental Health

LOOKING
F O R WA R D

Personal Aspirations
• Health & Wellness
• Cultivating a positive mindset
• Acheieve finicial security
Short-term Goals
• Take the NCLEX exam before the end of
February.
• Join a fitness group.

Potential Opportunities Long-term Goals

• Nurse Esthetician • Be debt-free.
• Flight Nurse • Love my career of nursing and not be burnt out.
• Forensic Nurse
• Take the NCLEX • Improve stress • Be debt-free.
• Become a mentor to new
exam before the end management. • Love my career of
nurses.
of February. • Increase self nursing and not be
• Engage in quality
• Join a fitness group. confidence and burnt out.
improvement projects.
assertiveness.

• Strengthen critical
• Improve time
• Be employed in a post thinking skills. • Become a hospice
management skills.
critical care unit. • Adapt to a routine that nurse.
• Improve medication • Participate in clinical skills • Increase networking
optimizes patient care.
knowledge. training for advanced life within the nursing
support. community.