Professional

Development
Bella Rodriguez
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
Strengths Areas for Improvement
Fast learner, ambitious, Assertive communication,
compassionate Speed of task completion
Short-term Goals
1. Improve my IV starts
2. Receive my advanced NRP certification within 6 mo.
Long-term Goals
1. Become a certified Spanish medical interpreter
2. Become confident in my ability to take high-risk patients
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
Integrative Nursing Principles
“Integrative nursing is informed by evidence and uses a full
range of conventional and integrative approaches, employing
the least intensive intervention possible depending on the need
and context” (Gozum & Ilgaz, 2022).

Massage Therapy Counterpressure Music Therapy

 Unit Leadership Abilities
Strengths Areas for Improvement
Team player, Calm under Disciplinary assertiveness,
pressure, Encouragement Underdelegation
Short-term Goals
1. Join the Unit Based Council (UBC)
2. Lead educational opportunities within clinical education
Long-term Goals
1. Take classes/meet qualifications to become unit preceptor
2. Receive training to become a charge nurse
 Professional Development
Short-term Goals
1. Become an AWHONN member
2. Attend Spinning Babies® Workshop (Spinning Babies,
2023).
Long-term Goals
1. Become a certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner
(SANE) through International Association of Forensic
Nurses (IAFN, 2023).
2. Receive my NCC Credential in Inpatient Obstetric
Nursing Core Certification (RNC-OB) (NCC, 2023).
 Leadership Book Selection
Selection of This Book
Improving perception to Areas for Improvement
lessen stress about Learning to say “No.”
uncontrollable Shifting focus from independent
circumstances to interdependent
Impact on Professional
My Strengths Growth
“Seek first to understand, Becoming proactive rather than
rather than to be reactive
understood” “Sharpening the saw”
(Covey, 2004).
 Leadership Shadowing Experience
Role Chosen: How Experience
L&D Charge Nurse Enhanced My
Knowledge:
Why?
Admiration for superior Illustrated importance of
time management and having a teamwork
coordination of staff on mindset and maintaining
highly fast-paced unit situational awareness
always
 Professional Activity
49th Annual Arizona Rural Health Conference:
“Enhancing the Rural Health Ecosystem”
Explanation of Activity Chosen:
● Hosted by the UofA in Flagstaff, Arizona
● Two-day conference gathering diverse group of professional
organizations committed to improving SDOH affecting rural
communities
How Activity Will Enhance My Future Practice:
● Shifted mindset outward beyond the hospital
● Revealed that issue is not a lack of resources, but lack of
knowledge about available resources
 Continuing Education
Personal aspirations
● Become a CNM or become a clinical instructor
Potential opportunities
● Meeting with UofA’s CNM program director
Short-term goals
1. Become a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) (ALPP, 2022).
2. Research local/online MSN programs and financial aid
Long-term goals
3. Apply for UofA’s DNP-CNM Program
4. Apply for Master’s of Science in Nursing Education
 Timeline of Goals
2024 2025 2026 2027 2028
Within Within Within Within Within
1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year 5th year
*Improve IV *Join UBC * OB * SANE UA DNP-
starts *AWOHNN Certification CNM
*NRP * Spanish
*CLC (RNC-OB) Or
Certified interpreter
*MSN * High-risk MSN in
*SB Research patients * Charge RN Nursing
Workshop * Preceptor Education
 References
Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice. (2022).
The CLC - certified lactation counselor.
https://www.alpp.org/certifications/certifications-clc/
Covey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective people.
RosettaBooks.
Gozum, S. & Ilgaz, A. (2022). Applying integrative nursing
principles to practice: An example from theory to
practice. Journal of Education and Research in
Nursing, 19(3), 362-370.
https://doi:10.5152/jern.2022.92342
 References
International Association of Forensic Nurses. (2023).
Sexual assault nurse examiner.
https://www.forensicnurses.org/page/aboutSANE/
National Certification Corporation. (2023). Inpatient
Obstetric Nursing.
https://www.nccwebsite.org/certification-exams/details/2/i
npatient-obstetric-nursing
Spinning Babies. (2023). The Spinning Babies® Workshop.
https://www.spinningbabies.com/professionals/spinn
ing-babies-workshops/
 References
The University of Arizona. (2023).
Nurse-midwifery doctor of nursing practice.
https://online.arizona.edu/programs/graduate/online-
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