Professional

Development Plan
By: Karen Lorena Jimenez Gudino

Direct Patient Care Abilities

Strengths
Patient

advocate

1.

Within two years I will be able to

effectively prioritize patient care.

Delegation

Team

2.

Player

Opportunities

Short term goals

Within two year of working as an RN I

want to be able to recognize changes in
patient condition and provide necessary
interventions.

for

Improvement

Critical thinking

Prioritization

Long term goals

1.Become the expert nurse that other

nurse approach for questions and advice

Be able to effectively manage the care of a

full patient load.

Unit Leadership Abilities

Strengths

Communication

Be

Public

Become

speaker

Proactive

Opportunities

for

Improvement
1

. Assertiveness

2.

Creative Problem
solving

Short term goals

a competent Charge Nurse within 2 years

assertive and confident in my

nursing skills.

Long term goals

Be part of a committee that develops and

implements quality improvement projects
Become able to creatively solve problems that
occur at the unit level.

Professional Development
Short

term goals

Long term goals

1.

Pass the NCLEX

1.

2.

Attain ACLS
certification

Attain a CCRN
certification

2.

3.

Subscribe to a
nursing journal

Attend a professional
nursing conference

3.

Serve aboard the

USNS Comfort

Educational Plan

Aspirations:

My

long term goal is to get a Doctorate of Nursing Practice in particular my

family nurse practitioner in order to work in medically under served areas.

Strength:
Navy

can help pay for some graduate degree courses

Desire
Will

to get a graduate degree

have my BSN

Short term goals: Pass the NCLEX on first attempt and get situated in the new
hospital unit that I will assigned to in Portsmouth, VA.
Long term goals: In four to eight years start working on getting a doctorate in
nursing practice with a focus on a (FNP)

Management/Leadership Book
Becoming

Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for

your patients and yourself

Strengths
Describes
Advice
Time

elements of a good report

on how to call doctors

management advice

Weakness
Advice
Author

on healthy diet and exercise requires a lot of self discipline

advice of support of Christian faith might not be applicable to those of

no faith or other faith

Leadership Shadowing Experience

Day

shift manger/ Charge Nurse:

Strengths:
1.
2.

Charge nurse are an excellent

resource for floor nurses.
Charge nurse are knowledgeable
and manage the unit for a shift

Strengths:
1.

Got to see how managers work and

manage hospital units.

2.

Learned why and how root cause

analysis are performed.

Weakness
to report to bed meetings
or find someone to represent
their unit at the meeting.

Senior Nurse Manager:

3. Have

Weakness:
3.

Nurse Managers does a lot of paper

works and answers a lot of emails.

Professional Activity and Community

Activity
Arizona

Global Health
Conference:

Global

health provider
Data gathering
Refugees

Round Table discussion:

Diagnosing

children

and treating sick

Volunteering in Z-Mansion
Rewarding experience
Struggles of the homeless
community
Practiced some clinical skills
Wound care
Nebulizer treatments
Assessments

Timeline of goals

May 2016
Graduate
with BSN

2018
Charge Nurse

June
2016
Pass
NCLEX

2019
Serve Aboard
USNS Comfort

July 2016:
Report to Naval Medical
Center Portsmouth

2020~2024
Start DNP
Program

2018
Get CCRN

2024~2028
Graduate with
DNP

References

Kleber, K. (2014). Becoming nursey: From code blues to code browns,

how to care for your patients and yourself. Cork: BookBaby.