PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Peyton Brown

PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

Address personal strengths
Patient advocacy
Ability to empathize with clients and families
Organizational skills required for care of multiple clients
Address opportunity for improvement
Asking others for assistance when needed
Task management and prioritization
Emotionally investing in client

DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

(CONT.)
Short term goals:
Continue to improve current skill set in nursing
Practice communication among staff, including SBAR
Perform skills that I have been unable to perform in the past
Continue to ask questions and learn from skilled nurses and healthcare
workers
Specific: Provide care to mothers, newborns and family members through
a healing ministry.
Specific: Identify potential risk factors and/or health issues for future
mothers.
Long term goals:
Continue education in order to competently provide education to clients

UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES

Personal strengths
Ability to lead when necessary
Ability to collaborate and work well with others
Ability to handle high-stress situations
Opportunities for improvement
Delegating to PCT/CNA
Requesting help from others on the unit for my clients
Ability to say no

UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES (CONT.)

Short-term goals
Participate in committees on unit and within hospital
Participate in opportunities throughout hospital (Ex: March of DimesTMC)
Say no when I am uncomfortable or when the situation calls for it
Shadow leadership roles such as CNL on unit.
Long-term goals
Participate in leadership opportunities offered by facility
Take on the CNL role
Precepting/educating new nurses and students

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Short-term goals
Lactation consultant licensure
Birth Doula certification
Obtain PALS/NRP certifications
Move to labor and delivery/NICU
within 1 year
Long-term goals
Serve as CNL
NNP or Nurse Midwife
College level professor and/or clinical
instructor

MANAGEMENT/LEADERSHIP BOOK
The Everything New Nurse Book: Gain Confidence, Manage
your Schedule, and Be Ready for Anything by Kathy Quan,
RN, BSN, PHN
Based on the experience of many nurses
Someone who cares for the sick and infirm Is this really
the definition of nursing?
Chapter 4: Deciding where to work
Utilize your resources (nurses, MDs, pharmacists, etc.)
How to react when patients question your age.
You will learn to laugh and to cry with your patients, to
share their joys and disappointments and sorrows. They will
all touch your life in a very different way and some will

LEADERSHIP SHADOWING
EXPERIENCE
Why the NICU CNL (Clinical Nurse Leader) and the NNP?
Potential role I wish to take on someday
Gain better understanding of role and responsibilities
NNP My grandmother held this position and loved it; something that I wanted
to try
What was learned?
CNL- not just business/administrative side
Helped with patient-care when needed
Leader on the unit/scheduling all shifts
Attended all high-risk deliveries and cesarean sections
NNP-patient load of 10-15 patients
Oversee primary care for all assigned patients
Communicate and collaborate with other members of the care team
Education of parents and families regarding newborn care

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Resiliency Training
Helping nurses develop strong coping strategies
Handling stress
Addressing compassion fatigue
Adapt to stressful situation in positive and healthy fashion
Mindful-based writing coping exercises
Enhancement of career goals
Establishing strategies to cope with and handle high-stress situations
Understanding of compassion fatigue in healthcare
Collaboration among healthcare workers

EDUCATION PLAN
Personal aspirations
Lactation Consultant Licensure and Birth Doula License
NNP or L&D NP (Doctorate)
Potential opportunities
Teen mother second pregnancy prevention program
Parents-to be education classes within the hospital
Short-term goals
Receive certifications, continue education, participate in community
service and leadership opportunities
Long-term goals
Serve as NNP or L & D NP

TIMELINE OF EVENTS
University
of Arizona
CON
Convocati
on May
12, 2016

Labor &
Delivery
or NICU
Nurse
August
01, 2016

College of
Nursing
Professor
Postretirement

Clinical
instructor at
University
for CON
2032retirement

certificati
ons (PALS,
NRC,
Lactation
consultant
, Birth
Doula)
August
01, 2017
Work as
NNP or L &
D NP
2022-2032

Move to
Colorado
or Texas;
L & D or
NICU CNL
May
01,2021
Return to
school in order
to obtain
doctorate (NP)
August 01,
2021

REFERENCES

Quan, K. (2006). The everything new nurse

book: Gain confidence, manage your schedule
and deal with the unexpected. Avon, MA:
Adams Media.