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This document outlines Amanda Shackelford's professional development plan as a nursing student. It identifies her strengths in direct patient care, such as having a big smile and orienting patients continuously. It also notes areas for improvement like dressing changes and ventilator management. Her short term goals within the next 2 years include developing her "nursing brain" and becoming less task-oriented. Long term goals in 3-5 years involve being able to respond to emergent situations and contributing to interprofessional teams. The plan also includes leadership abilities, certifications she wants to obtain, and her aspirations to become a nurse practitioner or CRNA over the next 20-30 years.

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Shackelforda

This document outlines Amanda Shackelford's professional development plan as a nursing student. It identifies her strengths in direct patient care, such as having a big smile and orienting patients continuously. It also notes areas for improvement like dressing changes and ventilator management. Her short term goals within the next 2 years include developing her "nursing brain" and becoming less task-oriented. Long term goals in 3-5 years involve being able to respond to emergent situations and contributing to interprofessional teams. The plan also includes leadership abilities, certifications she wants to obtain, and her aspirations to become a nurse practitioner or CRNA over the next 20-30 years.

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Professional Development

Spring 2020
Nursing 479
BY: AMANDA SHACKELFORD
Direct Patient Care Abilities

Opportunities for
Personal Strengths Improvement
 BIG SMILE  Dressing changes

 Orients patient  Charting


continuously  Identifying correct
 Therapeutic touch and heart/lung sounds
communication  Ventilator management
 Medication administration  Communication with
 Turning, toileting, residents, fellows,
ambulating attendings
Direct Patient Care Abilities

Short Term Goals (< 2 years) Long Term Goals (3-5 years)
 Develop a nursing “brain”  Develop ability to respond

 Further develop ability to to emergent situations


form nurse-patient  Able to integrate
relationship knowledge and direct care
 Become less “task- to contribute to
oriented” interprofessional team
 Form a routine
 Foster a collaborative,
shared-decision making
 Become oriented to unit patient experience
Direct Patient Care
Abilities
 Integrative Modality

 ”Nature has healing and


restorative properties that
contribute to health and
wellbeing.”
 Humans innately drawn to nature
 Hospitals are incorporating natural
light, color, art, and architectural
features that resemble nature
 Personal example from the VA (e.g.
visiting garden)
(Kreitzer,
2015)
Unit Leadership Abilities

Opportunities for
Personal Strengths Improvement
 Adaptability  Risk taking

 Independence  Critical Thinking


 Taking initiative  Delegation
Short Term Goals (< 2 years) Long Term Goals (3-5 years)
 Build rapport with coworkers  Become a preceptor
 Empower others  Join a committee
 Balance personal and  Train to be charge
professional life
Professional Development

Short Term Goals (< 2 years) Long Term Goals (3-5 years)
 ACLS  CCRN

 Subscribe to AACN  Certified Flight Registered


 Subscribe to American Nurse
Journal of Nursing
Leadership Book
 Strength: act against self-defeating thoughts
 Area for improvement: knowing that I am not
responsible for others’ emotions and to let that go
 Shows me how empathy can be beneficial but
also draining
• By knowing that I can’t control others’ feelings and
thoughts, it relieves the pressure of guiding my
decisions based on how I think others may react
• Continue to acknowledge others’ feelings
 Cons: This technique of emotional thinking can
come off as pompous and haughty
 “I didn’t make you feel that way; you made
yourself feel that way.”
(Cornwall, 2010)
Leadership Shadowing

 Rationale: interested in
pursuing CRNA school and
wanted to know more about
what this leadership role
entails
 Increased my knowledge of…
 Educational advancement
 Endless opportunity for
growth
 The provider role
Professional Activity

AACN Certificate BLS Renewal IPEP Activity


• Rationale: • Rationale: • Rationale:
increase renewal interested in
knowledge and • Revisited current opioid
awareness important life- epidemic
about COVID-19 saving skills that • New perspective
• Consolidated can be used about drug
current inside and users; provide
intensive care outside the them with
knowledge clinical setting knowledge
Educational Plan

Personal Aspirations Potential Opportunities


 DNP or CRNA school  MS in Nursing Clinical
 Become Dr. Shackelford Leadership (UA)

Short Term Goals (< 2 years) Long Term Goals (3-5 years)
 Study for NCLEX using 60-  Obtain certifications in
day U World subscription critical care nursing and
 Complete NRP/training flight nursing
program
Timeline Summary

May 2020: Graduation & continue studying for NCLEX


June 2020: Pass the NCLEX
Fall 2020: Continue applying & accept first ICU job
3-5 yrs later: Flight and/or travel nursing
10 years later: apply to DNP or CRNA school
20 years later: become a nurse educator
30 years later: own integrative practice
References

Cornwall, M. (2010). Go suck a lemon: Strategies for improving your emotional

intelligence. Michael Cornwall Publishing.

Kreitzer, M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: Application of principles across

clinical settings. Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 6(2).

doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200

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