PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
Kayla Meester
Student Nurse U of A
Patient Care Abilities
Strengths: compassion, energy, conversation skills,
experience, desire to learn and understand courses of
treatment
Opportunities for improvement: memory, time
management, organization, practicing skills
Short term goals: Improve working memory, improve
confidence in skill set, improve knowledge about patho,
labs, and medications
Long term goals: Learn in-depth pathophysiology,
medications, and labs associated with most common
disease processes, feel established and confident in my role
as a caregiver and nurse, be a coworker that others feel
they can come to for advice
Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths: dependable, hardworking, team player
Opportunities for improvement: delegation, confidence
Short term goals: become more comfortable with
delegation of tasks, more confident in skill set and
knowledge
Long term goals: Be viewed as a dependable leader on
the unit, leadership roles such as CNL or charge nurse
Professional Development
Short term goals: Work in an ED, ICU, or cardiac unit for
two years, stay up to date with nursing journals, gain
certifications (cardiac, pain, etc.)
Long term goals: Gain Cardiac-Vascular Nursing
Certification work in a cardiac critical care unit;
determine possible education pathways I would be
interested in
Management/Leadership
First Year Nurse by Barbara Arnoldussen
Has shown be that other people have the same fears and
thoughts that I do
Examples of how to improve myself
Reinforcement of positive behaviors I already perform
(i.e. Interview questions)
Leadership Shadowing Experience
Shadowed the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) in the Medical
ICU at St. Josephs Hospital in Tucson, AZ
Chose in order to experience the roles and responsibilities
of a leadership role on the unit
Demonstrated the roles and responsibilities of a CNL on a
daily basis (examples)
Managing
Advocating (patients, unit, staff)
Ensuring safety
Conflict resolution
Professional Activities
Work with community members to better their health
Mass Casualty Training with Medical Reserve Corps
Learned strategies to improve safety of the community as a whole
St. Lukes Home IPEP (respiratory & cardiac)
Work with members of St. Lukes home to better their health and
understanding
Professional Timeline

Complete
first year
Begin New as a new
Graduate RN
Pass Position
NCLEX before
Graduate (June
(May August
2017) 2017
2017)
Professional Timeline Continued

Work in a
cardiac critical
Receive board care
certification in environment
Work in an ED, cardiac- (2021+)
ICU, or cardiac vascular
unit for at least nursing (RN-
2 years BC)
(2018-2020) (2020)
Educational Plan
Obtain certifications (examples)
Cardiac-Vascular Nursing
Pain Management Nursing

Continue education throughout my career

Stay up to date on nursing journals and practices
Attend seminars and lectures