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Pro Dev Plan
Pro Dev Plan
11/12/2015
NURS 258 Professional Development Plan Template & Guidelines
Purpose: The purpose of the PDP is to assist you in conceptualizing the development of your professional nursing career in a succinct and
organized manner.
Instructions: Complete each section of the PDP template. This is the first page of the portfolio. You may use bullets and phrases instead of full
sentences to focus on the main points. To help you get started, some examples are included in the template in blue font. The expectation is that this
plan will be approximately 2-3 pages in length, using an 11 point font.
Goal Statement: To develop skills, experience, and knowledge as an expert professional nurse in a variety of health care settings and specialties
that demonstrate increasingly complex and comprehensive care and with that being done, obtain a nursing position in my desired specialty.
Elements
Objective(s): Describe what
you want to accomplish in
your first two years in
practice.
Plans/Strategies: Describe
the actions that you will take
to achieve your objective.
Strengths: Describe the
strong points about yourself
that make you such a great
nurse.
Skills/competencies: Describe
the skills and competencies
you bring to the role.
Areas targeted for growth:
From your own self
assessment, describe what
areas in yourself that you
would like to strengthen.
Clinical Practice
Obtain employment as a
registered nurse as part of a
new graduate program in
medical/surgical nursing, or
any other field that I can gain
nursing experience. I hope to
eventually work with
underserved women and
children.
Leadership
Professional Development