NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care
Leadership

Unit Related
Leadership

Strengths

Name: Jaime Varner

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Long term goals/strategies

3-5 years

Motivation to be
Lack of leadership
involved in unit
experience
Empowers staf
Little confidence in my
members to excel at
nursing abilities that
their job
would hinder leading
others

Get involved in the unit

Join a committee like
shared leadership

Take on leadership roles on the

unit
Become a preceptor to new
staf members and students

Be involved in nursing
culture and active in
organizations
Subscribe to a pediatric
nursing magazine

Acquire multiple certifications

in nursing that will further
enhance my practice
Get my pediatric nurse
certifications and ACLS/PALS

Journals/
Certifications

(based on your
strengths and
weaknesses)

Short term goals/strategies

Present-2 years

Advocating for my
Delegation to nursing
patients best
assistant staf
Difficulty with time
interest
Good listening skills
management
that cultivate a
trusting relationship

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,

NURS 479
Book selection

Date: 12/01/16

The book, Becoming

Nursey, helped to
reassure me that with
time I will be able to
manage my time better
once I develop a good
routine.
As a new graduate many
people are scared and
lack confidence, this
helped to strengthen my

Become more

organized in nursing
care delivery
Develop a nursing brain

that functions to keep

nursing care organized

Delegate tasks to nursing

assistant professionals with
confidence allowing for better
workflow
Gain experience with
delegation specific to the unit

confidence.
Delegation is a learned
task that takes practice
to do well and with time
I will become more
efficient.
Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

Observed
Learned the impact that a
empowerment and
good leader has on a
support of staf
unit and how to lead
nurses on the floor
with confidence by
and the positive
shadowing a charge
outcome it had on
nurse
their work by
shadowing a charge
nurse

Professional
Completing the
Activity/ Community
aromatherapy class
Service

Attending the mass

causality class exposed
allowed me to help
me to leadership skills
advocate for my
that are needed to
patients best
control a crisis and
interest when they
helped to push me
want a more holistic
outside of my comfort
approach
zone to take charge of a
situation

I plan to take many

continuing
Continuing Nursing
education and inEducation and/or
service classes that
plans for Higher
Education
will help me gain
clinical knowledge.
This will help me to
advocate for my
patients best
interested while
being more
Education:

Gain confidence in my
nursing abilities by
continuing to learn from
on the job training and
experience gained with
each day of clinical
exposure

Become an registered
nurse
Study and pass the
NCLEX exam after
which I will acquire my
first nursing job

Become a certified Pediatric

registered nurse
Gain experience working on a
pediatric medical surgical
floor and study to become
certified

informed.