PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENT
By: Rachel Flynn
Direct Patient Care Abilities
■ Personal Strengths
– Personable, empathetic, organized, compassionate, thorough assessment
■ Opportunities for Improvement
– Never saying no, confidence in my abilities, overstressed
■ Integrative Modality
– Nature is healing
■ Short-term goals
– Perform clinical skills with confidence, proper delegation, deep breathe when
stressed
■ Long-term goals
– Become a resource for others, formulate patient care plan incoordination with
interdisciplinary team
Unit Leadership Abilities

■ Personal Strengths:
– Energetic
– Motivational
– Team player

■ Opportunities for improvement:

– Settling disputes
– Perfectionism
Unit Leadership Abilities: Goals

■ Short term goals:

– Participate in a committee at the hospital
– Become a Charge Nurse
■ Long term goals:
– Attend a leadership national conference
– Be on the board of a professional organization
Professional Development

■ Short term goals:

– Become a Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse
– Preceptor nursing students

■ Long term goals:

– Join a professional organization
– Become a CRNA
The New One Minute Manager

■ Identified importance of manager, and how one minute can impact the unit
■ Helped me to understand communication in times of conflict
■ Importance of collaboration and communication
■ Explained leadership style impact from recipients point of view as well
Leadership Shadowing Experience

■ Shadowing of Charge Nurse on ICU at SAVAHCS

– Benefit:
■ Learned the importance of hands on leadership role
■ It is a lot more difficult to make assignments than originally expected
■ Various roles on the unit
■ Understand the importance of communication
Professional Activities

■ BLS recertification
– Allowed me to become up to date on basic life support protocol

■ Casa Maria
– I realized how important it is to treat everyone equally as patients and never to
assume
Educational Plan

■ Aspirations
– I want to maintain best practice and be up to date on current research
– Continue my education to become a CRNA

■ Opportunities
– Attend professional conference
– Assume role as Charge Nurse
Educational Plan: Goals

■ Short term goals:

– Graduate from the College of Nursing
– Complete a new graduate residency program
– Get my ACLS certification

■ Long term goals:

– Become a CCRN
– Continue my education to become a CRNA
 Timeline 2023
Begin
2019 2021 CRNA
Graduate Preceptor program
from CON students Attend
& Pass Become a leadership
NCLEX CCRN conference

2020 2022 2026

Attend a Assume Charge Graduate with
professional RN role Doctorate & pass
conference Join CRNA board
Obtain ACLS professional
certification organization &
participate on
board
References
Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. (2015). The New One Minute Manager.
New York, New York: Harper Collins