NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care

Strengths

I truly love
people!
Compassionate
Empathetic
Kind-Hearted
Love and Desire
to Learn

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Improve Skills
Proficiency
Patient/Family
Education
Enhance Time
Management

Name: Jennifer Garred Date: 12/04/2016

Short Term Goals/Strategies
Present-2 Years

Unit Related
Leadership

Work Well with

Others
Effective and
Clear
Communicator
Offer
New/Creative
Ideas
Hard/Diligent
Worker

Lack of
Assertiveness
Difficult Time
Delegating

Professional
Nursing
Development:

Organizations,
Journals,
Certifications
NURS 479
Book Selection
Quan, K. (2011). The
everything new nurse
book (2nd ed.).

Will Help Me to Improve

Upon My Weaknesses by
Teaching:
What I Can Do to

Long Term Goals/Strategies

3-5 Years

Gain Greater
Proficiency in
Routine Clinical
Skills
Effectively
Communicate
Important HealthRelated Information
with Patients and
Their Families
Safely Manage the
Care of 2 ICU
Patients
Charge Nurse Days
Student Nurse
Preceptor

Continue to Improve Role

as Charge Nurse
RN Preceptor

American
Association of
Critical Care Nurses
ACLS
CRRT
IO

Adult CCRN

Perform Complex Clinical

Skills with a High Level of
Proficiency
Teach Other Nurses How
to Manage the Care of 2
Complex ICU Patients

Massachusetts: Adams
Media.

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

Learn from My
Mistakes
How to Balance
Hectic Schedules,
Handle Stress, Avoid
Burnout and Be
Effective at Time
Management
Strategies for
Managing Patients
and Their Families
Ways to Work with
Doctors and Other
Medical
Professionals
The leadership shadow
experience taught me that
it is important to be
assertive in order to be an
effective leader. I know
that being assertive means
protecting your personal
rights while also
acknowledging the rights
of others. I witnessed
firsthand that not
everyone will necessarily
agree with the decisions of
a leader. Therefore, it is
important that the leader
maintain assertiveness in
the face of controversy,
especially if the decisions
he makes are not
favorable, but are still
necessary to enhance the
units function and also
achieve the goals of the

larger organization for

which the unit is a part of.
Professional
Activity/Community
Service

Education:
Continuing Nursing
Education and/or
Plans for Higher
Education

My time with the

American Red Cross
during their Smoke
Alarm Instillation Event
exemplified my love of
working with people
and also my innate
desire to help those in
need. I was humbled
by the experience and
I felt like I was truly
able to make a
difference in the lives
of others but providing
them with a life-saving
device and educating
them on fire safety
and preparedness.
Continuing my
education through
certification and
advancing my formal
education in the form
of obtaining my MSN
and/or ACNPC-AG will
help cultivate my love
of learning and
potentiate my desire
to be the best nurse
that I can be.

Adult CCRN

MSN and/or
ACNPC-AG