Professional

Development
Lisa Siewert

Direct Patient Care

Leadership

STRENGTHS

OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

-Communication
-Patient advocacy
-Dependable
-Provides compassionate care
-time management
-limited experience
-applying knowledge for quick and accurate decision
making
-

Direct Patient Care

Leadership Goals

SHORT TERM GOALS

LONG TERM GOALS

-finish Nurse Transition Program

-integrate in to unit
-improve time management
-obtain chemotherapy certification
-assume leadership position on unit
-continue education to advanced degree

Unit Leadership

STRENGTHS

OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVEMENT

-approachable
-teamwork
-communication

-delegation
-puts focus on trying to make everyone happy
-interprofessional collaboration

Unit Leadership
Goals

SHORT TERM GOALS

LONG TERM GOALS

-join a unit committee

-assume leadership role (charge nurse)
-continue to develop leadership traits
-precept students
-participate in and lead continuing education
-obtain advanced degree

Professional Development
Goals

SHORT TERM GOALS

LONG TERM GOALS

-subscribe to a Pediatric Nursing Journal

-ACLS certification
-complete chemotherapy certification
-specialty certifications
-attend seminars and continuing education
events

Book Selection

Your 1st Year As a Nurse by Donna Wilk

Cardillo
-mentorships
-provided insight about
expectations from supervisor
for new nurse
-where and how to get help
-common challenges and how
to move past them
-how to move your career
forward taking your career to
the next level

Leadership Shadowing
Experience

Becky Ramirez, RN, MSN, Nurse

Manager

-enhanced understanding of unit staffing, attended

hospital wide staffing meetings throughout the day
-observed the importance of the role of nurse
manager away from the bedside
-evaluation of patient satisfaction
-observed responsibility required as a higher
position in chain of command

Professional
Activity
Medical Reserve Corps
Meeting/Training
-bi-annual meeting of Tucson chapter, focus was
volunteer headquarter organization
-use of nursing skills in community
-importance of disaster planning and organization
-provided insight to involvement opportunities
post-graduation and licensure

Continuing Education

PERSONAL ASPIRATIONS

POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES

-become certified pediatric oncology nurse

-expand personal knowledge base of the pediatric
population, clinical specialist
-continue education to obtain advanced nursing
degree
-clinical specialist
-leadership role
-advance degree from BSN to MSN or DNP

Professional Timeline
Begin Nurse
Externship
January
2017
Graduate
December
2016

Pass NCLEX
February
2017

March 2017December 2017,

integrate on to unit
and transition to RN
role

Complete
chemotherapy
administration
certification by
March 2018

Assume leadership
role September
2018

Pursue
advanced
degree
Decembe
r 2020

References
Cardillo, D. W. (2010). Your first year as a
nurse: making the transition from total
novice to successful professional (2nd ed.).
New York: Three Rivers Press