Professional Development

Whitney
 “
Know yourself
and seek
improvement.

(United States Marine Corps [USMC], 2018)

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 Direct Patient Care
● Strengths
○ Integrity
● Deficiencies
○ Time management
● Goals:
○ Short-term: Building
confidence in skills
○ Long-term: Burnout
● Integrative nursing is
person-centered and
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relationship-based.
 Unit Leadership
● Strengths
○ Communication
● Deficiencies
○ Delegation
● Goals
○ Short-term: Delegation
○ Long-term: Quality
Improvement (QI)

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Professional Development
● Goals:
○ Short-term:
■ Translator
○ Long-term:
■ Travel Nurse

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 Leadership Novel
● How to Win Friends &
Influence People
○ Dale Carnegie
● Strengths
○ Integrity
● Deficiencies
○ Criticism
● Benefits
○ Principles
● Cons
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○ None found
Leadership Experience
● Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL)
● Southern Arizona Veterans
Affairs Healthcare System
(SAVAHCS)

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Professional Activity
● Advanced Cardiac Life
Support (ACLS)

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Continuing Education
● Aspirations:
○ Nurse Informatics
● Opportunities:
○ SAVAHCS
● Goals:
○ Short-term: Understand
Information Technology
(IT) in healthcare
○ Long-term: Enroll in a
Nursing Informatics
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program
 Timeline

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

- - Self - QI - Travel - Apply to
Delegation confidence - Avoid Nurse Nursing
skills - Certified burnout through Informatics
- Continue Translator the VA Program
Spanish - IT in
Courses
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various
institutions
 References
Carnegie, D. (1981). How to win friends & influence people. New
York: NY
United States Marine Corps. (2018). Sustaining the
transformation [PDF document]. Retrieved from
https://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/MCTP%206
-10A.pdf?ver=2018-09-20-123803-807

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Questions?
Thank you for listening!
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