PLAN FOR

PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
By Natali Knight
Strengths:
kind, flexible, intrinsically motivated, take
stewardship seriously
To improve: fear of mistakes or appearing incompetent;
information retention and organizational skills
Goals:
Short-term: Early arrival and habit of material review
Long-term:
Confidently provide care
Seek and grow from feedback

DIRECT PATIENT-CARE ABILITIES

Strengths:amiable, team player/collaborative,
connection and openness to coworkers, ambitious
To improve: delegation, speaking up
Goals:

Short-term: Hold one leadership role by 3 months

Long-term:
Exercise respectful but strategic delegation daily
Become a preceptor

UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

Short-term Long-term
Subscribe to journal Faculty of academic nursing
institution
Honorary active member Involvement in
public/community health
projects
Obtain trainings and progress International nursing
up clinical ladder experience
Attend conferences and in-
services

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS

 Take-aways:
Confidence
True success
Handling fear
Key to peak performance
How complimented: useful
strategies for clarifying values,
building goals, and living fulfilling
life
How Beneficial:
moments of uncertainty
mindfulness as powerful tool
LEADERSHIP BOOK SELECTION
 Charge nurse: Tami Isaac
Position:
responsible for larger coordination efforts
general knowledge of all patients conditions
backup and support for the nurses
Coordination of staffing assignments and ratios
critical to react to changes, anticipate, mitigate conflicts efficiently, delegate, and
supervise
How enhanced knowledge?
I enjoy puzzles and quantitative problem
Shadowing helped me apply these strengths and gain experience with resource
management, delegation, and how to be a team leadership dynamics

LEADERSHIP SHADOWING
 Clinica Amistad How enhanced knowledge?
http://www.clinicaamistad.org/ Meaningful work, networking
Volunteer clinic for uninsured, mostly Experience with grass-roots organization
Spanish speaking in Barrio
Health teaching
Provides primary care and other
Value-driven life
services
My position:
wherever I am needed!
Utilized:
language skills, critical thinking,
patient interaction, teamwork

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
 Strengths: idealist, wanting to make a large impact
To improve: finding and persisting in a direction
Goals:

Short-term:

MPH program
Community health work
Long-term:
Clinical teaching experience
Consider NP specialization
International nursing leader

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION GOALS

 -Seek feedback
-Arrive early to -Confident nurse -International
and grow from it -faculty of -Possibly begin
Unit Leadership Subscribe to Participate -Delegation nx experience -international
each shift -precept nx
position journal -higher acuity nx NP
-Review in trainings -community nx
-clinical academic nx leadership
concept/shift -MPH program specialization
3 mo 4 mo 1 yr involvement teaching institution 15 yrs
-join honorary 3 yrs 7 yrs
2 yrs experience 5 yrs.
6 mo 4 yrs.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TIMELINE

REFERENCES

Bias, B. (2017). Delegation & Supervision: The ultimate

professional challenge. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from
https://d2l.arizona.edu/d2l/le/content/553876/viewContent/4814
182/View.