NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan

Area

Direct
Patient Care
Leadership

Name: Aimee Apedjinou Sam ________Date: 11/25/2016

Strengths

Weakness/Opportunity for
Improvement

-organizing tasks to improve

patient care.

-Continue to build my confidence

while providing care

-being motivated to learn

and improve myself

-Continue to improve the

effectiveness of my
communication skills with my
team and the patients

- actively listening to
patients concerns.

-Continue to improve my time

management and be able to
delegate tasks when necessary.

Unit Related
Leadership

-Passionate about providing

excellent patient care
-Encouraging and supportive
of others

-I need to be more decisive in

order to be able to empower
other people of the care team as
well as patients.

Short term goals/strategies

Present-2 years

-I would like to improve my

charting for better
documentation in order to
improve my time management
as well as my organization

Journals/
Certifications

-Continue to build and gain more

confidence in my nursing skills
-I would like to be an advocate for the
patients under my care, gain more
knowledge and experience

-I would like to participate in

clinical activities to further my
knowledge and gain more
confidence in my nursing skills.

-Act as role model

-Gain leadership skills by
committing myself for
excellence

-develop a culture and spirit of

leadership

Professional
Nursing
Development:
Organizations,

Long term goals/strategies

3-5 years

-Work towards a leadership position and

apply or have a leadership position in
my unit.
Join in a committee to contribute to
shape my skills and gain experience in
leadership.

- Advanced cardiac life support

(ACLS) certification
- Specific certificates related to
the unit I will be working to
meet the requirements as
certified nurse in the unit and
renewal of BLS.

-obtain a geriatric Nursing Certification

-Work towards advanced nursing
practice on patient care coordinator
or/either certificate Clinical Nurse
Leader Certification

- join committee in healthcare

place I will be working.
NURS 479
Book selection

The 150 Tips and Tricks for

New Nurses

(based on your
strengths and
weaknesses)

-enhanced my strengths by
telling me that the nursing
profession is a continued
learning process that will
help me to excel in my
career.
-It improved my weakness
by telling me how to
improve my communication
skills with the patient and
team.
- gave good advice on how
to improve my time
management and to have
balance between my
profession and personal life.

Leadership
Shadowing
Experience

-learned to develop
relationships amongst team
care members to ensure
safe quality of care for
patient;
-learned what natural
talents and strengths each
team member brings to the
group in the care
coordination, and how to

-allowed me to improve my way

to approach interdisciplinary
work
-improve my interaction with
patients and patients family by
better communication skills and
manage wisely my time
-Improved my documentation
skill for VANOD assessment and
contribute to quality of care
delivered to the patients.

Professional
Activity/ Community
Service

capitalize on those
contributions;

-Improved my confidence and mu

communication skills

-this helped me understand

how my individual strengths
can be beneficial to the
team

-Showed me the importance of

time management

- enhanced my willingness
to be helpful to my
community by joining this
group of volunteers and
getting the needed skills

- showed me the specific

organizations to volunteer in my
community
- improved my skills on how to
use the knowledge to help myself
and others in these types of
situations, to prevent injuries or
reduce negative outcomes.
Got me excited about the
volunteer opportunities in my
community

- enhance my compassion to
care for elders and work
with them by community
outreach and service
-enhanced the skills needed
for emergency.
Education:
Continuing Nursing
Education and/or
plans for Higher
Education

-Masters Degree in nursing

-Stimulation labs
-online education classes,
-join a committee,
-Participate in mandatary
and continuing education,
-update training on skills.
All the above will enhance
my strengths.

-involve in QIP project to improve

patient and staff satisfaction and
safe quality of care
-take class on communication
skills and use tips to improve
myself
-join a nurse association to
participate in training based on
evidence practice which will
increase my confidence and time
management skills

-Join a committee in the

organization I will be working in

-Prepare and take courses to be

accepted for nursing advanced training

-join a nurse association to

participate in training based on
evidence practice.

-Be able to be an expert on what I am

doing in the unit, be a role model and a
mentor in the unit.

-Mandatory and continued

education to update skills