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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Alaina Hill's professional development goals and experiences. It identifies her strengths in direct patient care such as communication and compassion, and areas for improvement like time management and patient education. Her goals are to improve patient education skills in the short term and gain more clinical experience long term. For unit leadership, her strengths are being a team player and maintaining ethics, while her goals are to improve delegation skills and gain unit leadership experience. Her timeline shows plans to take the NCLEX in January 2016 after graduating, obtain ACLS certification by June 2016, and become charge nurse by February 2018.

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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Alaina Hill's professional development goals and experiences. It identifies her strengths in direct patient care such as communication and compassion, and areas for improvement like time management and patient education. Her goals are to improve patient education skills in the short term and gain more clinical experience long term. For unit leadership, her strengths are being a team player and maintaining ethics, while her goals are to improve delegation skills and gain unit leadership experience. Her timeline shows plans to take the NCLEX in January 2016 after graduating, obtain ACLS certification by June 2016, and become charge nurse by February 2018.

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Professional

Development
By: Alaina Hill

Direct Patient Care


-Strengths: Communication, Patient Advocate,
Compassionate
-Opportunities for Improvement: Time management, Limited
Experience, Patient Education
-Short Term Goal: Improve Patient education skills
-Long Term Goal: Increase level of clinical experience

Unit Leadership
-Strengths: Team Player, Maintain ethical standards, Good
listener
-Opportunities for Improvement: Delegation, Limited
unit-specific leadership experience, Lack of knowledge
regarding hospital policy
-Short Term Goal: Improve delegation skills
-Long Term Goal: Gain leadership experience on my unit

Professional Development
-Short Term Goal: Become ACLS certified.
-Long Term Goal: Obtain membership in an acute care
nursing organization

Leadership Book
- Youre 1st Year as a Nurse by Donna Wilk Cardillo RN
- Strengths:
- Importance of networking and developing
professional relationships
- Be supportive of everyone on my unit
- Areas for improvement:
- Knowing my limitations
- Speaking up for myself

Leadership Shadowing Experience


-Janelle Levitt RN
-Learned the value of interdisciplinary communication
-Learned the importance of being a patient advocate AND a
staff advocate
-Learned how to manage conflict among staff members
-Learned hospital policy and procedure

Professional Activities
-Mass Casualty Training
-Emergency training
-How to provide care with limited resources
-IPEP on Polypharmacy at St. Luke's Home for Elders
-Health issues related to elders
-Value of working with other health disciplines

Timeline
Graduate on
12/15/2015

Take NCLEX
in January
2016

Start Masters
program in
August of
2018

Graduate
Masters
program in
May of 2020

Begin
Employment
in February
2016

Take ACLS
course by
June 2016

Become
Charge RN
by February
2018

Educational Plan
-Personal Aspirations: Gain leadership skills and continued
confidence
-Potential Opportunities: Leadership opportunities and
certifications
-Short term goal: Pass the NCLEX and receive nursing
license
- Long term goal: Receive my Master's in Nursing

References

Cardillo, D. W. (2001). Your first year as a nurse: Making the


transition from total novice to successful professional. Roseville,
CA: Prima Pub.

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