NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care

Strengths

Organize, calm,
respectful

Leadership

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

Inexperience
lack of knowledge
communication,
inability to delegate
Improvement:
Seek knowledge from
experience nurse, CNL,
mentor, preceptor

Name: _________________________Date:
Short term goals/strategies
Present-2 years

Attend healthcare
conferences
Apply for a residency
program

Long term goals/strategies

3-5 years

provide good care to patient

improve communication
improve medical knowledge,
improve skillset

Read evidence base

practice literature
provide good care to
patient
improve communication
improve medical
knowledge, improve
skillset

Unit Related
Leadership

honest, commitment,
willing to ask
questions, willing to
help others

unable to express self,

afraid to offend co-worker

Help improve the work

environment by support
each other
Be able to function as a
charge nurse

Improve patient outcome and

patient
Satisfaction
Become a clinical nurse leader

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,

Organization:

Long term goal:

VA Palo Alto Health Care

System, Fremont hospital

advance education, masters

degree, ACHPN

Journals/

Certification:

Certifications

RN license, BLS
Short term goal:
subscribe American

Journal of Nursing, RN
license, ACLS

NURS 479
Book selection
(based on your
strengths and
weaknesses)

First year Nurse

wisdom, warnings, and
what I wish Id known
my first 100 days on
the job. Edited by
Barbara Arnoldussen,
RN, MBA
Offer lots of tips and
advices that help
improve my confident
as a new grad

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

Learn how to organize

palliative care and
hospice care for the
patients and family
members.
Learned how to
coordinates with the
team of social worker,
nutritionist, chaplain,
nurse practitioner and
doctors for plan of care
Learn how to guides
and supports family
members to make
decisions for patients

This experience
allowed me to gain a
better knowledge of
the role of a hospice
nurse, the patient-care
process and the
patients outcome.

Professional
Activity/ Community
Service

IPEP (interprofessional
Education and
practice) program
Hearing screening test
Learned how to use
the audiometer and
the otoscope.
Learned how to listen
and communicate to
the elder population
with hearing problem.
Mass Casualty
Fire station
Learned how react and
respond to a crisis
situation.
learned how to apply a
tourniquet and how to
pack a wound as well
as how to
communicate and
remain calm
Learned how to

prioritize in a
catastrophic event.

Education:

Study for the NCLEX

Past the NCLEX

Continuing Nursing
Education and/or
plans for Higher
Education

Getting ACLS
certification

2016-2018: working as a
new grad, and gain as
much experiences as
possible

It will help improve

my skills

go back to school and get a

master degree
Become an ACHPN(Advance
Certified hospice and Palliative
nurse)
Work as an ACHPN,