Professional

Development Plan
Lizette Rodriguez
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
 Personal Strengths
 Professional bedside manner
 Advocacy for patients
 Provide compassionate and holistic care

 Opportunities for improvement

 Confidence in nursing skills and knowledge
 Delegation
 Time management
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Build confidence in nursing skills through direct
experience
 Perform professional delegation
 Strengthen time management skills

 Long-term goals (3-5 years)

 Be able to recall medication side effects and
pathophysiology of numerous diseases
 Continue to enhance critical thinking skills
 Unit Leadership Abilities
 Personal Strengths
 Reliable
 Interprofessional collaboration
 Flexible, patient, and understanding
 Accepts constructive criticism for improvement

 Opportunities for improvement

 Perfectionist
 Handling conflict
 Unit Leadership Abilities
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Join a committee
 Become a charge nurse on the unit
 Be active in quality improvement projects

 Long-term goals (3- 5 years)

 Become a nurse manager on the unit
 Precept nursing students or new graduate nurses
 Professional Development
 Short-term goals (Present- 2 years)
 Become Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
certified
 Become CCRN certified (Neonatal)

 Long-term goals (3-5 years)

 Join American Nurse’s Association
 Become a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
 Leadership Book
 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R.
Covey
 Ways it has complimented my strengths
 Proactive focus
 Character and communication
 Areas for improvement
 Time management
 Delegation
 Ways it has benefited my personal growth
 Allowed me to evaluate the center of my Circle of
Influence
 Application suggestions
 Leadership Shadowing
Experience
 Charge Nurse
 Rationale: To understand the full role and
responsibilities of a charge nurse.

 Enhanced my knowledge:
 Learned about different the duties of a charge nurse
 Learned more about hospital staffing/ratios
 Rounded on the unit and got updates on patients
 Collaboration and communication with nurses on
different floors
 Professional Activity
 Volunteered in the SILC Lab
 Rationale: To assist with completing tasks before the
start of the semester
 Able to see how much work goes into simulations
 Able to see how long it takes to prepare lab kits for each
semester

 Volunteered at The Salvation Army Hospitality House

 Rationale: To give back to the community
 Able to see how much work goes into preparing meal
 Taught about utilizing resources available
 Educational Plan
 Personal aspirations  Short-term goals
 Educated on up to date (Present- 2 years)
evidence-based practice  PALS certified
 Certified Spanish  CCRN (neonatal)
translator
 Long-term goals (3- 5
 Potential opportunities years)
 Be accepted into a  Earn Master’s of
Master’s Program Science in Nursing
 Become charge nurse  Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner
 Timeline
Graduate/ Pass NCLEX

Build confidence and strengthen

nursing skills

CCRN certification

Become charge nurse

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

 References
 Covey, S. R. (1989). The 7 habits of highly effective
people. New York, NY: Free Press.