PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
Lynn Ly
NURS 478
Patient Care Abilities: Self-reflection
Strengths Areas of Improvement
◦ Organization ◦ Recognizing early s/sx of change
◦ Compassionate care of condition
◦ Listening ◦ Connecting history of admissions
to present illness
◦ Updating family
Integrative Modalities
◦ Therapeutic touch
◦ Letting in natural light
◦ Guided imagery
 Patient Care Abilities: Goals
Short Term Long Term

◦ Memorization of common ICU ◦ Read EBP research and implement

medications ◦ In-depth understanding of various pathology
◦ Titration, Adverse Drug Effects and common treatments
◦ More comfortable with education
 Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths
Short Term Goals
◦ Patience
◦ Be a preceptor
◦ Seek to empower others
◦ Finding a leadership style
◦ Supportive
◦ Good listener

Areas for Improvement Long Term Goals

◦ Assertiveness ◦ Become charge nurse
◦ Public speaking ◦ Be a nurse educator in new grad residency
◦ Directly voicing concerns programs
 Professional Development
Short term goals
◦ Find clinical research team at facility
◦ Join AACN and partake in continuing
education courses
Long term goals
◦ Obtain CCRN
◦ Explore other critical care unit
◦ Apply and attend DNP school
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey (2004)
Why Chosen:
◦ Learn about areas I could maximize
efficiency
◦ 7 habits  realistic and manageableBenefit professional growth:
◦ Realistic framework
Compliments own strength:
◦ Team player ◦ Inspiration to make changes to
habits now
◦ Think Win-Win
◦ Defined my life’s mission and
◦ Synergize
values
Identifies weaknesses:
◦ Be Proactive
◦ Put first things first
(Covey, 2004)
 Leadership Shadowing: Charge Nurse
Chose to shadow a charge nurse because:
◦ How accessible they are
◦ How flexible and adaptable they must be
◦ Curious on how much unit depends on charge nurses

Reflection on experience:
◦ Most helpful and available resource
◦ Wealth of knowledge
◦ How to serve as a role model to other team members
 Professional Activity Experience
Experiences Chosen:
◦ Nursing Documentation: Legal Aspects (Nurse.com)
◦ COVID-19 Pulmonary, ARDS, and Ventilator (AACN)
◦ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
◦ Medical Complications, Alcohol-Medication Interactions, Mental Health Issues
Experience Impacting Future Practice:
◦ Be a more proactive nurse  Increased competency
◦ Communicate and collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary teams
◦ Respiratory Therapists
◦ Foundation to help advocate for my patients
 Higher Education
Personal Aspiration
◦ Continue higher education
◦ Precept students
◦ Be a mentor
Potential Opportunities
◦ Charge nurse
◦ Joining professional nursing
organizations
◦ Become a nurse educator
Short Term Goals
◦ Start new grad position in ICU and
finish new grad residency program
◦ Be a preceptor
Long Term Goals
◦ Attend and graduate from DNP
◦ Become a Critical Care Nurse
Practitioner
Timeline
2027
April/May
July 2024
2024
DNP School
Start
Secure a job
residency
June 2024 Program in 2025-2026 2030
ICU
NCLEX Preceptor DNP
Graduate
Leadership
Role Nurse
Practitioner
AACN
References

Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people. New

York, NY: Free. Press.