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Professional Development

This document outlines Jesse Smith's professional development goals and plan. It details their personal strengths in detail orientation and self-awareness, as well as areas for improvement in time management and organization. Their short term goals are to complete ACLS training and get into a nursing residency program, and long term goals include advanced certification and travel nursing. It also discusses leadership experience shadowing charge nurses, a rural health conference attended, and aspirations to obtain a Doctorate and become an NP.

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Professional Development

This document outlines Jesse Smith's professional development goals and plan. It details their personal strengths in detail orientation and self-awareness, as well as areas for improvement in time management and organization. Their short term goals are to complete ACLS training and get into a nursing residency program, and long term goals include advanced certification and travel nursing. It also discusses leadership experience shadowing charge nurses, a rural health conference attended, and aspirations to obtain a Doctorate and become an NP.

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Professional

Development
By Jesse Smith
 Personal Strengths
 Detail-oriented
 Self-awareness
 Areas for Improvement
 Time management
Direct Patient  Organization

Care  Goals
 Short term
 Long term
 Integrative Modalities
 Exposure to Light and Guided Imagery
 Strengths
 Prioritizing
 Maintaining composure under pressure
Unit  Areas of improvement
Leadership  Confidence and Knowledge
Abilities  Communication skills
 Goals
 Short term
 Long term
 Short term Goals
 Complete my ACLS training
 Achieve admission to a New Graduate Nursing
residency program
Professional  Long term Goals
Development  Achieve certification for advanced skills such as
PICC line placement.
 Seek employment with a travel nurse agency
 “First year Nurse; Wisdom, Warnings and what I
wish I’d known, My first 100 days on the job” by
Barbara Arnouldussen
Management  Contains numerous insights on various aspects
& Leadership of nursing, from leadership to patient care
book  Most useful as an introductory guide

(Arnouldussen, 2009)
 Charge nurse role
 Coordinating the unit
 Supporting the unit nurses
Leadership  Assigning patients
Shadowing  Not all Charge nurse positions are created
equal
 Charge in rotation is limited in the support they
can provide
 Arizona AHEC Rural health conference
 Covered a wide range of topics
 Exposure to multiple health issues facing
Professional Arizona
Activity  Increases my awareness of potential factors
affecting patient compliance
 Personal Aspirations
 Achieve my Doctorate and become an NP
 Potential Opportunities
Educational  Tuition reimbursement through hospital or
Plan Military
 Short term Goals
 Long term Goals
Timeline
Present -> 3
First six months on Second year Year 5
months Year 3-4 Nursing
the Unit Nursing nursing
post NCLEX
• Complete ACLS • Create and • Seek out • Complete • Seek
training Finalize a additional master’s employment
• Apply to New personal shift training on degree with a Travel
Grad Residency report and note leadership • Seek out a nurse Agency
programs taking tool roles, obtain position as a • Seek
shadowing Charge nurse, admittance to a
opportunities Doctoral
• Seek out program to
advanced skills become an NP
training
opportunities
such as PICC
team
• Begin Working
on my Master’s
degree
Arnoldussen, Barbara. (2009). First year nurse: Wisdom, warnings,
References and what I wish I’d known my first 100 days on the job (3rd ed.). New
York, NY: Kaplan Inc

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