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479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Date: December 1, 2015

Name: Kaitlyn Parks

In 3-5 years I see myself practicing as a safe, patient-focused, and competent RN in pursuit of my DNP degree.

Area
Strengths
Weakness/ Opportunity for
Short term goals/ strategies Long term goals/ strategies

Improvement
Present-2years
3-5 years





Direct
Ability to remain
Therapeutic
Goals:
Goals:
Patient Care
calm in high-stress
communication
Provide high quality,
Master patient
Leadership
clinical situations
strategies
ethical, and patient-
communication and

Time management
Tendency to over-
centered nursing care
education skills
skills
critique own clinical
Improve therapeutic
Challenge current
Ability to perform
competency
communication skills
practice to find
rational and
Strategies for providing
Safely and effectively
solutions for best
effective
clear, concise, and
transition into the
practice alternatives
prioritization
effective patient
professional RN role
Acquire confidence in
education

my identity as a

Strategies:
professional RN and
leader
Practice mindfully of

my motives, actions,
Strategies:
and biases with all
Continue regular
patients
practice of
Practice regular
therapeutic
communication with
communication and
all patients and other
education
professionals
Research common
Ensure to double
topics of education
check everything
(orders, medications,
Seek out deficits on
etc.)
my unit and research
alternatives for best
practice through
published studies
Partake in a psycho-
educational program
and work hard to

Unit Related
Leadership

Professional
Nursing
Development
:
Organizations

Knowledge of
mechanisms for
utilizing evidence
based practice
techniques
Ability to maintain
effective inter-
personal
relationships
Ability to
effectively and
rationally mediate
conflict

achieve the identity

that I am striving for.

Recognition of the
Goals:
Goals:
dynamic nature of
Join a committee
Begin serving as a
other employees/team
within a professional
mentor for less
members
organization
experienced nurses
Communicating as an
Improve confidence in
Initiate a quality
effective leader
own leadership
improvement project
Seeking out,
capabilities
within my
researching, and
Acquire a greater
organization
advocating all
patience throughout
Research, write, and
opportunities for unit
relationships with
publish a study
improvement
other professionals
evaluating a best

practice protocol
Strategies:

Strategies:
Seek out available
committees in my
Provide myself as
hospital
available and take a
leadership role with
Partake in a psycho-
those less
educational program
experienced
Remind myself
Seek out
regularly of the
opportunities for
variations between
improvement within
other providers and
my daily practice
myself
Select a goal, gather
data, and make time
to create the
protocol



Goals:
Goals:
Obtain cardiac-
Seek out
vascular nursing
opportunities for
certification (RN-BC)
advancement within
Seek out non-
my organization

,
Journals/
Certifications

N 479
Book
Selection
(Based on
strengths and
weaknesses)

Book
Selected:
Outliers: The
Story of
Success by
Malcolm
Gladwell

licensure based
continued education
opportunities
Seek out possible
journals to submit my
best practice thesis to

Highly goal
oriented with
strong aspirations.
This book
describes how this
is one of the key
factors to
successful
outcomes as an
individual
(Gladwell, 2008).
Ability to maintain
effective
interpersonal

Lack of confidence in
self and tendency to
over critique myself.
Tendency to refrain
from sharing my
opinion due to fear of
being judged.
Tendency to have self-
perceived inadequate
communication skills
Each of the above
points were identified
as weaknesses in this
book per the inability

Establish myself as a
charge nurse on my
unit
Publish my best
practice thesis in an
official nursing
journal

Strategies:

Strategies:
Study for the test,
Talk to my unit
research dates for test
taking, and the cost of
manager about
doing so
potential
opportunities
Ask for opportunities
Take note of the
within my
organization
charge nurse role and
familiarize myself
Research
with the unit tasks
opportunities on the
Submit my thesis to
CDC
applicable nursing
Research a list of
journals
varying nursing
journals and see
which is most suitable

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

Experience
Selected:
Charge RN
Shadow

relationships, such
as a leader would
need to. This book
identifies the
ability to maintain
professional
relationships with
many people to be
a contributor to
success (Gladwell,
2008).
Ability to
effectively and
rationally mediate
conflict, such as
that of a leader.
Levelheadedness
and maturity of
mind is defined as
a key contributor
to success
(Gladwell, 2008).


Ability to
effectively interact
with other team
members. A
charge nurse must
be able to
effectively
communicate with
those around
them in a
confident manner.
Ability to learn
quickly. A charge
nurse is

to believe in yourself.
Gladwell (2008)
identifies how
mentality and mental
toughness play a
significant role in
success. One must
believe in themself to
achieve greater
outcomes (Gladwell,
2008).

Lack of confidence in
self as a leader. This is
necessary in order to
presume a leadership
role and assign tasks to
those around me.
Lack of experience
throughout the day-to-
day functions on a unit,
and thus lack of
knowledge for problem
solving solutions per
protocol. This limits my
ability to effectively

Professional
Activity/
Community
Service

Activity
Selected:
Pediatric
Advanced Life
Support
(PALS)
Certification

responsible for
many new daily
functions, and the
ability to learn
quickly improves
productivity.
Ability to mediate
conflict
throughout the
unit and critically
think to develop
new solutions. As
the leader of the
unit, this skill is
necessary when
outside conflict
arises.


Ability to quickly
learn and apply
new skills. This
allowed me to
make the most of
my experience,
and to uphold the
information that I
was taught should
a further critical
and life-
threatening
situation arise.
Ability to remain
calm in high-stress
and life-
threatening
situations. This
increases my

presume the charge

nurse role, as
familiarity significantly
increases productivity.
Opportunity for
improvement in
personal
communication skills.
Given that
communication is an
essential function of
charge nurse, I need to
learn how to
communicate with
those above and below
me in a clear, concise
manner.


Lack of experience in
high-stress clinical
situations. This limits
my ability to assess
what a true life
threatening situation is
like, and how I will
handle this in the real
world.
Improved delegation
skills when
implementing life-
threatening
interventions. This
limits my ability to play
a leadership role and
ensure effective
teamwork is
performed during a

Education:
Cont. Nrsg.
Educ. and/or
plans for
Higher Educ.

ability to achieve
the desired
outcome and not
get overwhelmed
by my emotions.
Ability to
effectively
prioritize in a high-
stress situation.
This is essential to
ensure that
optimal
interventions and
solutions are
achieved.


Driven and goal
oriented. In order
to achieve a higher
education, I must
maintain a clear
vision on the
outcome that I
wish for, and to
attack it full force.
Knowledge for the
role of a NP in
various clinical
settings. This will
allow me to
ensure that I
choose the correct
path, and that I
am positive I want
to pursue my
advanced
education goal.

life-threatening event.
Improved time-keeping
and communication
skills in critical, high-
speed situations. This is
a skill most frequently
acquired clinically, and
limits my ability to
ensure that the correct
procedures are
performed.

Goals:
Lack of experience in
Decipher between
viewing the day-to-day
which specialty track
functions of different
to pursue
NPs per their
Apply to U of A DNP
specialty. This limits my
program
ability to effectively

decipher which path is
correct for me to take. Strategies:
Research the
Lack of clinical
differences between
experience as a
each specialty track.
professional RN. This
Shadow an NP of each
limits my ability to
ensure my
specialty to gain
compatibility with a
clinical experience
particular clinical
Follow up with CON
setting, such as a
advising on when the
CVICU.
application opens and

its due date

Goals:
Obtain my DNP
degree
Pass NP boards/test
Establish myself as an
NP in a CVICU

Strategies:
Diligently work
towards the DNP
degree in the online
U of A program
Study for boards, and
pay a high degree of
attention in the
program
Reach out to HR
throughout my
organization to seek
potential NP
opportunities

References
Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008. Print.