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Professional Development
A PowerPoint Presentation by Kristina Juliana Arnold

Direct Patient Care

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Strengths:
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Opportunities for Improvement:

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Personable, positive attitude, teachings skills

Labor and delivery experience, time management

Short Term Goals

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Improve time management

n Strategy: organizational sheet

Improve and expand nursing skill set

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Strategy: experience in labor and delivery

Long Term Goals

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High-risk Obstetrical Nursing

Unit Leadership
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Strengths: Participation in unit activities

Opportunities for improvement: Delegation skills

Short Term Goals:

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Improve delegation skills

n Strategy: Ask for help when needed
Quality improvement projects
n Strategy: Volunteer for these project, present new project ideas

Long Term Goals

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Charge nurse/Clinical Nurse Leader

n Strategy: Training
Preceptor
n Strategy: Preceptor training

Professional Development
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Short Term Goals

n Join AWHONN
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Long Term Goals

n Take on a leadership in
AWHONN (Association of
Womens Health, Obstetric,
and Neonatal Nurses)

Strategies

Subscribe to journals.
Receive ACLS certificate
and advanced fetal heart
monitoring

Strategies
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Receive trainings to get

certifications.

Pay membership/journal
fees

Be an active participant in
the chapter and run for a
leadership role.

+ Leadership Book:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
By Stephen Covey
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Mentality

first to Understand, then to be understood.

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to my professional growth:

Effective communication with co-workers and patients

n Time management techniques
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Leadership Shadowing Experience

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Unit Manager, Labor and Delivery Unit

Overseeing the unit and staff

Encouraging safe patient care and actively finding ways of
improving the unit
Hiring new staff

Communication with staff

Providing feedback to staff on performance

Delegating tasks to staff.

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Professional Activities
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Casualty Training

n Volunteer

in the St. Josephs Neonatal Intensive

Care Unit
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direct patient care for newborns within my

scope as a volunteer.
n Become more comfortable caring for newborns.

Educational Plan
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Personal Aspirations
n Get RN license
n Receive more certifications
for OB nursing
n Become a Clinical Nurse
Midwife (CNM)

Potential Opportunities
n Hospital pays for staff to get
certifications
n Midwife on the L&D unit

Short Term Goals

n Pass NCLEX
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Research possible
educational programs for
CNM degree

Long term Goals

n Be in the process of attaining
my degree to become a
CNM

Timeline

June
2019
February
2017
Pass NCLEX and
start first nursing
job

December
2018
Join AWHONN
and subscribe to
journals and
receive
advanced
certifications

Develop
delegation and
leadership skills

January
2020
Become Charge
RN / Clinical
Nurse Leader

January
2021
Start CNM
program

References
Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people. New
York, NY: Free Press.
AWHONN (2016). Sections: AWHONN arizona. Retrieved
from https://www.awhonn.org/group/arizona