PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Alexis Raim

DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES

• Strengths
oCompassionate
omaintains dignity of patients
oadvocates for patients
• Opportunities to improve
onot speaking up
ocritical thinking skills
DIRECT PATIENT CARE ABILITIES (CONT’D)
•Short term goal
oimprove my ability to speak up when I see a co-worker
not following protocol
oGain confidence with nursing skills (IVs, Foleys, etc.)
• Long term goal
ovastly improve my critical thinking skills
Get CCRN certified by by third year of working
UNIT LEADERSHIP ABILITIES
• Strengths •Short term goal
otimely oBe able to respectfully confront
oorganized others when the time is needed
oGet oriented to a charge nurse
• Opportunities to role
improve
oconfrontation skills • Long term goal
oImprove delegation owork in a charge nurse role on a
consistent basis
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
• Current involvement
o Student Nurses at the University of Arizona (SNUA)
o EPA committee
o Basic Life Support (BLS)
o Southern Arizona ACCN
• Short term goals: get ACLS certified and join the ACCN
group
• Long term goal: join unit council and get involved in the
hospital
 BOSSYPANTS- TINA FEY
•This book made me realize how sometimes you can not please
everyone and not everyone is going to like you
•It highlighted my strengths it not giving up (exactly what Tina
Fey did) and also showed me that I need to be able to stand up
for myself
oTina Fey was able to do this throughout her career but I sometimes have
difficulty doing this
•This book is beneficial to my professional growth because…
oIt shows that as a leader you need to consider more than just yourself
oIt made me want to become a leader in my nursing career because Tina Fey
was looked up to and highly respected
oIt also really made me think to not get too worked up over things because
“Either way everything will be fine” (Fey, 2013, p. 249)

Fey, T. (2013). Bossypants. New York: Little, Brown.

SHADOWING THE ICU CHARGE NURSE
• ICU Charge Nurse: goes to the Codes and Rapid
Reponses
• ICU charge does many other tasks:
o making patient assignments
o checking in on the nurses’ patients throughout the day
o ensuring adequate help for nurses
• I realized the amount of responsibility the charge nurse
holds
BSN PANEL- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
• NURS 195 Q&A Panel
o College freshman asked questions on getting into nursing school
and what it is like to be in the program
• I chose this activity because of how much I love the
nursing college and being in the BSN program
o I never had the opportunity to ask these questions early on
• This experience enhanced my knowledge of the
importance of giving back and recruiting amazing future
nurses
EDUCATIONAL GOALS
• Personal Aspirations • Short term goals
obecome a nurse practitioner (NP) or oby two years I would like to have a
onurse anesthetist plan of my next ‘move’ in my
nursing career
• Potential Opportunities
otravel nursing • Long term goals
oby 5 years I would like to be a
oflight nursing or
travel nurse or
otry out a different area of nursing
obeginning a doctorate program to
(obstetrics)
be a NP
CAREER GOALS
• Get my ACLS, basic arrhythmia class, and feel comfortable on the unit and
6 months asking for help

• look at getting CCRN, join a critical care group and transition to day shift
1 year

• get CCRN, research back to school opportunities and work as a charge

2 years nurse

• travel nursing, flight nursing or go back to school

3 years

• travel nursing or beginning a DNP program

5 years

• travel nursing or beginning a DNP program

10 years
REFERENCES
Fey, T. (2013). Bossypants. New York: Little, Brown.
Thanks Mary!