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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Sarah Soderberg's professional development goals. It discusses her strengths in direct patient care such as organization and communication skills, and areas for improvement like certain medical skills and advocacy. Her short-term goals are to improve skills and prioritization, with long-term goals of effective time management and confidence. For leadership, her strengths are in unbiased listening and decision making, with goals to improve delegation, assertiveness, and confidence. Her short-term professional goals are to get a nurse residency and work on a medical unit, with long-term goals of critical care certification and a master's degree in nursing education.

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Nursing Professional Development Plan

This document outlines Sarah Soderberg's professional development goals. It discusses her strengths in direct patient care such as organization and communication skills, and areas for improvement like certain medical skills and advocacy. Her short-term goals are to improve skills and prioritization, with long-term goals of effective time management and confidence. For leadership, her strengths are in unbiased listening and decision making, with goals to improve delegation, assertiveness, and confidence. Her short-term professional goals are to get a nurse residency and work on a medical unit, with long-term goals of critical care certification and a master's degree in nursing education.

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Professional

Development
Sarah Soderberg
Direct Patient Care Abilities

• Strengths
• Highly organized
• Strong therapeutic communication
• Critical thinking
• Opportunities for Improvement
• Skill based care such as: IV insertion, vasoactive drips
• Nurse advocacy
• Multitasking
Direct Patient Care Abilities

• Short term goals


• Increased confidence in skills-based care
• Improved prioritization skills
• Long term goals
• Effective time management
• Confidence on my own
• Integrative Modality utilized
• “Human beings are whole systems inseparable from the environments”
(Kreitzer, 2015)
Unit Leadership Abilities

• Strengths
• Unbiased
• Good listener
• Effective decision making
• Opportunities for Improvement
• Delegation
• Assertiveness
• Confidence
Unit Leadership Abilities

• Short term goals


• Be a teammate on the unit
• Contribute to unit decision making
• Form relationships with others on the unit
• Long term goals
• Joint a hospital committee
• Become a charge nurse
Professional Development

• Short term goals


• Get a job with a New Gradate Nurse Residency
• Work on a medical-surgical or step-down unit for first 2-3 years
• Long term goals
• Become a certified critical care nurse
• Work in a medical or cardiovascular ICU
• Get a masters of education in nursing
Leadership Book

• Your First Year as a Nurse: Making the Transition from total


novice to successful professional (Cardillo, 2001).
• Compliments my strengths of being a good listener, having good
communication skills, and wanting to be a teammate
• Explains how to improve on delegation and assertiveness
• Benefits for my professional growth: What to expect my first year
as a nurse, how to make the most of it
Leadership Shadowing Experience

• 8 Hour shadow with Rapid Response


• Chose because I did not have an ICU/ED preceptorship
• Need years of ICU or ED experience before
• Need a large amount of knowledge of every field
• Quick thinking, good skills under pressure
Professional Activity

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) class


• Desire to learn more about emergency situations and codes

• Enhanced my knowledge of:


• Cardiac medications
• Algorithms for emergency situations
• Sequence of events for a code blue
• Teamwork and communication
Future Educational Plan

• Personal aspirations:
• Critical care nurse, nursing educator
• Potential Opportunities
• Acceptance to NP program through Honors college
• Take courses to become a CCN
• Short Term Goals
• Pass the NCLEX, start working by August 2020
• Work as a bedside nurse on different units
• Long term Goals
• Work as a bedside nurse for 5-7 years before considering more school
• Possibly graduate school
• Nurse educator
Timeline for Goals

Short Term Timeline

Get a job Finish first Continue to


Offer with a Pass the Start working year as new work as
Nurse NCLEX (Aug 2020) grad (Aug bedside
Residency 2021) nurse

Long Term Timeline

Work as a possibly get a Become a


bedside nurse Look into Grad masters in clinical nurse
for 5-7 years on school (2027) education instructor at a
different units (2029) university (2030)
References

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


transition from total novice to successful professional
(2nd ed.). Three Rivers Press.
Kreitzer, M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: Application of
principles across clinical settings. Rambam Maimonides
Medical Journal, 6(2), 1-8. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200

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