Professional Development

Olivia Mills
Patient Care
Strengths Opportunities for
Improvement
● Nurturing
● Advocate ● Still learning skills
● Provide education ● Speaking to physicians
● Patience ● Critical thinking
● Compassion ● Hard to say “no”
● Attention to detail ● Confidence in
● Integrative therapy assessments
Patient Care Goals
● Short term goals
○ Become more confident
with skills
○ Trust my abilities
○ Clear communication
● Integrative modality: utilize
the healing qualities of nature
●
● Long term goals
○ Improve patient care
within my clinical
setting through policy
changes and quality
improvements
○ Be a positive and
memorable part of my
patient’s healthcare
experience
Leadership
Strengths Opportunities for
Improvement
● Assertive
● Approachable ● Still learning skills
● Problem solver ● New to the unit
● Dependable ● Want to please everyone
● Calm under pressure
● Empowering
Professional Development
● Short term goals
○ Join a nursing committee or professional organization
○ Volunteer within my community
○ Learn from the leaders in my clinical setting
● Long term goals
○ Become a preceptor
○ Become charge nurse
○ Inspire other nurses
The One Minute Manager (Blanchard & Johnson, 2003)
● Complimented own strengths
○ Empowering
○ Resolves conflict
○ Build self and others up
● Helps my areas for improvement
○ Helps me set realistic goals for skill competency
○ Reflect on pleasing others
Leadership Shadowing
● ICU nurse educator
○ I learned about how the nurse educator teaches the
nurses on the unit, new graduates and even helps with
patient care
● ICU charge nurse
○ I learned how patient assignments are determined and
the importance of helping everyone on the unit as the
charge nurse
Professional Activities
● Making lab kits in the SILC Lab
○ Giving back to the College of Nursing and the
incoming students
● Volunteer at Casa Maria shelter
○ Giving back to the Tucson Community and
witnessing the support that the community has
for one another
Education Plan
● Personal Aspirations
○ I plan on continuing my education at the U of A in the
fall of 2019 in the Doctor of Nursing Practice-Family
Nurse Practitioner program
● Potential Opportunities
○ I am working with Cheryl LaCasse and Melissa
Goldsmith (honors advisors) to come up with a
curriculum model for the BSN program regarding
opioid education
Timeline of Goals
● In the next 6 months
○ Pass my NCLEX
○ Find a job in a clinic to practice patient assessment skills
● In the next 3 years
○ Graduate from the DNP-FNP program
○ Gain confidence in my patient assessment abilities
● In the next 10 years
○ Become a travel nurse
○ Work in rural Alaska as a nurse practitioner
○ Open up my own practice