TAYLOR OLSON Professional

Development
NURS 479
Direct Patient Care Abilities

 Personal Strengths: compassionate, empathetic,

reliable, team player
 Opportunities for Improvement: time management,
confidence in skills and knowledge, and task delegation
 Short-term goals: continue to improve time
management, gain confidence with skills and
knowledge, and delegate appropriately
 Long-term goals: confidence in patient and family
education techniques, and medication indications and
common side effects
 Integrative Modality: Self mindfulness before shifts
Unit Leadership Abilities

 Personal strengths
 Ability to work as part of a team
 Motivated learner
 Opportunities for improvement
 Confidence in myself as a new graduate RN
 Familiarity with unit and hospital
Unit Leadership Abilities

 Short-term Goals:
 Become comfortable on unit
 Participate on unit/team committee
 Long-term Goals:
 Charge RN role
 Become a preceptor to a nursing student or RN
Professional Development

 Short-term Goals:
 PALS and ACLS certification
 Attend a professional nursing conference
 Join ANA
 Long-term Goals:
 Maternal Newborn Nursing Certification
 Obtain MSN
Management/Leadership Book

 Book: First Year Nurse: Wisdom, Warnings, and what I

wished I’d known my first 100 days on the job by
Barbara Arnoldussen, RN, MBA
 This book complimented my own strengths by
reinforcing the qualities and characteristics I have in
myself.
 This book is beneficial to my personal professional
growth because it made me realize I want to attend
conferences as a new grad
Leadership Shadowing Experience

 Labor and Delivery Charge Nurses

 Benefits:

 Professional leader on the unit

 Handled multiple stressful situations
 Delegation

 Team management
 Always interacting with patients and families
Professional Activities

 Basic Life Support re-certification

 Successful
completion of BLS to enhance my CPR
knowledge, confidence and how to be a team
member during this situation
 SILC lab Volunteer
 Enhanced my overall knowledge by seeing all that
went into preparing lab for students
Educational Plan

 Personal Aspirations
 Achieve confidence in knowledge and self
 Become member of ANA
 Potential Opportunities
 Become a preceptor for RNs and students
 Become charge nurse
Educational Plan

 Short-term goals
 Complete a new grad RN program
 Attend a mother/baby nursing conference
 Long-term goals
 Obtain Maternal Newborn Nursing Certification
 Complete MSN degree
Timeline

Graduate from UA & Pass NCLEX

Work for a minimum of 2 years

Obtain Maternal Newborn Nursing

Certification

Return to school and complete MSN

References

 Arnoldussen, Barbara. (2016). First year nurse: Wisdom,

warnings, and what I wish I’d known my first 100 days on
the job (4th ed.) New York, NY: Kaplan, Inc.