Professional Development

Presentation
Jacqueline Fuentes Quintero
The University of Arizona

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Patient Care Abilities
Strengths/ Areas for
Improvement Goals/ Strategies
Short-term: learning lay
terms for medical
Compassionate terminology/ asking for
Flexible feedback and suggestions
Hard-working Long-term: Proficient and
Organized/ comfortable with lay
Using lay terms terms/Attend workshops
Procedure preparation for professional
improvement and medical
terminology
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Unit Leadership Abilities

Strengths/ Areas for Improvement Goals/ Strategies

Team player
Well-rounded
Reliable/ Short-term: proficient at
Cohesive and Coherent SBAR SBAR/feedback after report
Delegation Long-term: Be charge nurse/
provide feedback to new/grad
nurses (leadership)

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Professional Development
Short-Term Goals/Strategies
Provide up-to-date evidence-
based care/Sigma Theta Tau
membership opportunities
Long-Term Goals/Strategies
Chemotherapy certification
Continue education in DNP
program and continue
research/ implement DNP
project at cancer center or
oncology unit
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Management/ Leadership Book

Strengths Areas of improvement

Organizational skills and time
management
Breaking down tasks and
moving on until it has been Picturing what needs to be
completed (Allen, 2003) done with myself in it (Allen,
2003)
Focusing on the task

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Leadership Shadowing Experience
Dana Richardson, House supervisor for Northwest
Medical Center
Gained perspective on leadership and
management
Importance of proper staffing

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Professional Activity
Western Institute of Nursing Annual Conference in
Denver, CO
Presented honors thesis project through poster
presentation
Attended various presentations and symposiums
during a four-day time frame
Gained better idea on nursing as an innovative
field

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Short and Long Term Goals
1. Begin working at the Yuma Regional Medical Center
(YRMC) after graduation
2. Become Charge Nurse for unit after six-eight months
3. Begin working at the YRMC Cancer Center or an
oncology unit in Yuma, AZ after one or two years as
RN
4. Return to the University of Arizona for DNP for Fall of
2018, continue working as RN
5. Implement DNP project in Cancer Center in Yuma

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Educational Plan
Aspirations/ Opportunities
With the Cancer Center in
Yuma, AZ growing, there have
been plans on expanding to
pediatric oncology.
Want to be Pediatric Oncology
Nurse Practitioner
Goals/strategies
Short-term goal is to begin
working in either the NICU or
telemetry unit as an RN then
transfer to cancer center after
chemotherapy certification.
Also, enroll to DNP program to
begin Fall of 2018
Begin research/ implement
DNP project to cancer
canter/oncology unit
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References
Allen, D. (2003). Ready for anything: 52
productivity principles for getting things done.
New York, New York: Viking Penguin.

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