Professional

Development
Presentation

By Lauren Hammond
Direct Patient Care Abilities
● Strengths: Professional and friendly bedside manner, communication with
patients and staff, documentation/computer skills
● Areas for Improvement: Building my confidence, time management skills
● Short term goals: Prioritizing patient care, Trusting myself and my abilities,
Working with a Preceptor as a new graduate to learn and transition into a
professional nurse
● Long Term Goals: Become an experienced and confident nurse, Develop
excellent critical thinking skills, Become experienced with more than one field
of nursing
● Integrative Modalities: Deep breathing exercises, walking in the halls,
distraction techniques, massage
Unit Leadership Abilities
● Strengths: ability to communicate effectively with fellow nurses and certified
nursing assistants to delegate tasks, Asking for help when needed and asking
questions about certain policies and procedures
● Areas for Improvement: Working quickly with a large patient load, Staying
organized throughout the shift
● Short term goals: Understand my hospitals policies and procedures, develop a
relationship with charge nurses and managers
● Long term goals: Become a charge nurse or nurse manager, Preceptor for
nursing students or new graduates
 Professional Development
● Short Term Goals: Get ACLS certified, CPR recertification
● Long Term Goals: Possible Family Nurse Practitioner, Experienced ED
nurse
Leadership Book
● The Four Agreements (Ruiz, 1997).
● There are certain agreements we make with ourselves, God, and others
● Many agreements come from fear
● The four agreements we can adopt:
1. Be impeccable with your word
2. Do not take anything personally
3. Do not make assumptions
4. Always do your best
Leadership Shadowing Experience
Day Shift House Supervisor- Northwest Medical Center

● Krisanne Mardis

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Conducts meetings with charge nurses

● Coordinates nursing staff schedules
● Helps out on all the units
● Monitoring the flow of patients in and out of the hospital
● Monitoring number of Covid-19 patients in the hospital
Professional Activity-Yale Course on Happiness

Reason for choosing this professional activity:

● Improving my own mental health and wellness by learning how to be happier

What I learned:

● Tips on how to live a happier life

● Aspects of our life that we believe bring us happiness may actually be harmful
to us
● Savering
Continuing Education
● Certified Emergency Room Nurse
● Become a nurse manager or nurse educator in the future
● Short term goals: Become a Registered Nurse and pass the NCLEX
● Long term goals: Earn my Masters in Nursing and possibly become an NP
Goal Timeline
~6 months: Pass NCLEX and get a position in a New Graduate Nurse Residency
Program

~2 years: Get certified as an emergency room nurse

~5 years: Accepted into an NP program, working as a nurse leader

~10 years: Working as an FNP

References
Ruiz, M. (1997). The Four Agreements: A practical guide to personal freedom.
Amber-Allen Pub.