PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Victoria Begg
Direct Patient Care Abilities
• Personal Strengths: • Short Term goals:
• Be able to successfully take care
• Time management
of a full patient load at a time
• Attention to detail depending on which unit I am
• Self-awareness placed.
• Integrate myself into an
• Opportunities for Improvement: interdisciplinary team
• Integrate Integrative Nursing
• Integrating information
Principles and modalities.
(critical thinking)
• Long Term goals:
• Being too emotional • Transfer to a higher acuity unit
• Confidence • Become certified on the ICU
(CCRN)
Direct Patient Care Abilities:
Integrative Nursing Care
◦ Unit
◦ Telemetry Unit at Oro Valley Hospital
◦ Integrative modality
◦ Integrative nursing is person-centered and relationship based
◦ Integrative indicators
◦ Deep breathing
◦ Distraction with TV
◦ Hand massage
(Kreitzer, 2015)
Unit Leadership Abilities
• Short Term Goals:
◦ Personal strengths
• Find a preceptor and/or mentor
◦ Positivity
on my unit
◦ Transparency • Pay attention to the leadership
◦ Team-player roles on the unit in which I am
working- shadow these leaders.
◦ Areas for improvement
◦ Assertiveness • Long Term Goals:
◦ Strategic Planning • Become a preceptor for nursing
◦ Taking things personally students and new hires.
• Become charge nurse on my
unit.
Professional Development
◦ Short Term Goals
◦ Become licensed in the State of Arizona
◦ Join the American Nurses Association
◦ Attend nursing conferences and seminars about standards of
practice
◦ Know and understand my future facilities protocols and procedures
◦ Long Term Goals
◦ Become specialized in my unit (if ICU- CCRN)
◦ Go back to school to become a Family Nurse Practitioner by getting
my Doctorate in Nursing Practice.
Leadership Book
◦ ”The Gifts of Imperfection; Let Go of Who You think You’re Supposed to Be and
Embrace Who You Are” by Brene Brown, Ph.D, L.M.S.W
◦ How it compliments my strengths: o Cons:
o Lack of research
◦ Self-awareness
◦ Calmness
◦ How it compliments my areas for improvement:
◦ Addresses perfectionism- relates to confidence
◦ Providing steps (or “guideposts”)
◦ Personal Professional Development Benefits:
◦ “Courage”
◦ Mindfulness
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Leadership Shadowing Experience
◦Nurse Supervisor at Oro Valley Hospital
◦ Learned about:
◦ Variety of roles that the nurse supervisor fills
◦ Staffing and Nurse-Patient ratios
◦ On-call and OR prep for next day
◦ Rounds with charge nurses
Professional Activity
◦Advanced Cardiac Life Support Course
◦ Education is valuable
◦ Important in any unit
◦ Interest in Critical Care
◦ Job opportunities
Educational plan
◦ Personal Aspirations:
o Short-Term goals:
◦ Become specialized in the ICU.
o Graduate in May
◦ Become a preceptor o Be offered a job position
◦ FNP o Pass the NCLEX
o Long Term Goals:
◦ Potential Opportunities
o Become a role model to those
◦ Banner UMC-Phoenix PCU on my unit
◦ Online program options o Continue my Education to get
◦ Part-time and Full-time options for my Doctorate to become a
DNP programs Family Nurse practitioner.
◦ NCLEX date only
May 2019- January 2024-
August 2029- Begin
Graduate from U of Become certified by
a DNP program
A with my BSN obtaining my CCRN
June/July 2019- January 2021- If not August 2031 or 2033
Take the NCLEX and in the ICU, apply for (full time vs part
pass to become a positions within the time) – Finish the
RN. ICU DNP Program
July 2019- Move to July 2020- Finish the January 2033 or
Phoenix & begin a Nurse Residency 2035- Begin my
Nurse Residency Program practice as a Family
Program nurse Practitioner
References
Brown, B. (2010). The gifts of imperfection: Let go of who you think you’re supposed to
be and embrace who you are. Center City, Minnesota: Hazelden Publishing.
Kreitzer, J. M. (2015). Integrative nursing: Application of principles across clinical settings.
Rambam Maimonides Med Journal 6(2): e0016. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10200
