Personal Development Plan

Meghan Callahan
Direct Patient Care Abilities
Personal Strengths: Short term goals/strategies:
Listening Work with a variety of nurses to
Caring learn how to care for patients
Sincere who are receiving a variety of
Humble procedures for the first two
years of nursing.
Opportunities for
Improvement:
Long term goals/strategies:
Experience
Patient care while under Develop my own style of
anesthesia nursing that I am comfortable
with implementing with a
variety of patients and
procedures by five years into
nursing.
Unit Leadership Abilities
Personal Strengths Short term goals/strategies
Diligence Inquire coworkers constructive
Teamwork feedback on their expectation
for a leader.
Opportunities for Become familiar with each jobs
Improvement scope of practice in order to
Courage when facing effectively and appropriately
opposition or resolving practice proper delegation.
ethical problems
Long term goals/strategies:
Be able to become a charge
nurse.
Professional Development
Short term goals:
Become a member of AORN Journal

Long term goals:

Become a Registered Nurse First Assist (RNFA)
Management/Leadership Book: The One
Minute Manager
Book Compliments Strengths:
Goal setting
Productivity
Time-efficiency

Book Shows Areas for Improvement:

Confrontation and reprimand

Beneficial to Professional Growth: (Blanchard & Johnson, 2003)

Step instructions on how to:
Set a goal Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. (2003).
Praise The One Minute Manager. New
Reprimand York: Harper Collins
Leadership Shadowing Experience
Experience Enhanced Knowledge:
Reality of being a charge nurse
Busy schedule, but calm demeanor
Knowledgeable
Resourceful
Mediator
Time-efficient
Planner
Professional Activities
Experience Enhanced Knowledge:
IPEP at St. Lukes Home
Collaboration
Elderly assessment and care
Mass Casualty Training
Prepare for worst and hope for the best
Tourniquet application
Community resources during disaster
Teamwork
Goals Timeline

RNFA
Learn and Charge Masters
Leader- indepen- Degree
AORN Nurse
ship dence
May May May May May May
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Gain
Exper- Classes
ience
Continuing Education
Personal Aspirations: Short Term Goal:
Take periop 101 classes Expand on operating room
knowledge by going to
Potential Opportunities: community college and
Take scrub tech classes taking classes

Long Term Goal:

Charge Nurse
Masters Degree
References
Blanchard, K. & Johnson, S. (2003). The One Minute
Manager. New York: Harper Collins