Tyler Dunker

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Direct Patient Care Leadership
Strengths: Opportunity for
People Skills Improvement:
Nursing Skills (NG, Foley, Ect.)
Patience
Confidence
Tireless work ethic Use of layman's terms with
patients

Short term goals: Become proficient in my skills, develop

personal routine, learn how to communicate complicated
processes with patients

Long term goals: Become a role model nurse for patient

care and gain additional experience/training in area of
specialty (Behavioral Health)
Unit Related Leadership
Strengths: Opportunity for
Intuitive Improvement:
Reliable Delegation
Work well in teams Communicating with
(both as a leader and a providers
teammate)

Short term goals: Become comfortable with the use of

delegation and be part of a hospital committee

Long term goals: Charge nurse and become a role

model/mentor for new grad nurses
Professional
Development
Short term:
ACLS certification
Subscribe to the Journal of the American
Psychiatric Nurses Association (JAPNA)

Long term:
Continue education to Masters Level (Teaching)
Continue education to Nurse Practitioner
Book Selection
Its Not How Good You Are, Its How Good You Want To Be

Strengths:
Desire to better self and education
Creativity/Originality
Opportunities for Improvement:
Confidence
Taking note of personal accomplishments
Beneficial to Professional Growth:
Thinking outside the box
Being flexible Arden, P. (2003). Its Not How
Good You Are, Its How Good
You Want To Be. New York:
Phaidon Press Inc.
Leadership Shadowing
Experience Enhanced Knowledge:
Realities of the position
Time management
Planning/Organization
Increased knowledge base
Increased ambition
Professional Activity/Community
Service
Food Bank / Mass Casualty

Experience Enhanced Knowledge:

Showed reality of community
Enhanced teamwork skills
Knowing what and where resources are available
(Ex. AED)
Knowledge of emergency/crisis scenario
Goals Timeline
May 2017 May 2019 May 2021
Experience Charge DNP

May 2018 May 2020

ACLS/Committee Preceptor
Continuing Education

Personal Aspirations: Potential Opportunities:

Continued Education Become a preceptor
(Masters/NP/Psych) ACLS Certification
Part of committees

Short term goals: 1-2 Years become charge nurse

Long term goals: 3-5 Years obtain Masters/DNP

References
Arden, P. (2003). Its Not How Good You

Are, Its How Good You Want To Be. New

York: Phaidon Press Inc.