Professional

Development
By: Sanisa Mendoza
Direct Patient Care Abilities
Personal Strengths:
● Time management skills
● Communication at the bedside
● Critical thinking skills
● Empathetic
Opportunities for Improvement:
● Increase cultural competence
through personal education and
direct patient care
● Work on emotional intelligence
and mindfulness in and outside of
work
● Do more personal research on
integrative modalities that may
work for future patients
Patient Care Goals
Short Term Goals: Long Term Goals:
● Develop confidence with
knowledge at the bedside
● Work to develop
therapeutic relationships
with all patients
● Become more time
efficient with nursing
skills/tasks to be able to
spend more time with
patients
● Obtain a nursing career
that will provide long
lasting relationships with
patients
● Develop a reputation as a
competent and reliable
patient advocate
● Daisy Award Recipient
Integrative Modalities
“...Person centered and relationship based”

● Nurturing therapeutic relationships with patients and family at the bedside

● Developing a reputation as a competent and reliable nurse

“...Has healing and restorative properties that contribute to health and wellbeing”

● Trips outdoors when applicable

● Education on how nature can affect wellbeing

“...Focuses on the health and wellbeing of caregivers as well as those they serve”

● Self care as a nurse: yoga, meditation, exercise

(Kreitzer, 2015).
Unit Leadership Abilities

Personal Strengths: Opportunities for

Improvement:
● Communication skills
● Willing to ask for help ● Becoming more assertive
● Open to constructive ● Learning to delegate tasks
criticism ● Fear of failure
● Adaptable and plastic to
new ways of nursing
practice
● Experience working with a
multidisciplinary team
Unit leadership Goals
Short Term:
● Form strong relationships
with other staff members
● Become a member of
nursing committees/unit
programs
● Find opportunities for
continued education
● Utilize resources available
for self care
Long Term:
● Obtain a unit
leadership/charge nurse
position
● Do personal research on
ways to increase unit
satisfaction for nurses
● Participate in unit/hospital
related research
Short Term Goals (1-3 years)
Get involved during COVID crisis
Pass NCLEX
ICU Nurse Residency Program
Obtain a fitness /yoga instructor
teaching

Profession
Long Term Goals (5-10 years)
● Obtain CCRN
al Goals
● Get into a graduate and/or CRNA
program
● Work as clinical faculty/educator
at a college of nursing
● Continue volunteering for the
homeless/vulnerable populations
 Career Goal Timeline

May 2020 August 2021 May 2027

Nurse ICU Job/ CRNA School Practicing Nursing

Pass NCLEX
Residency Fitness Cert CRNA Professor

July 2020 May 2024 August 2040

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

1. “Be proactive”
a. We can’t always choose our situations or what happens to us, but we can be
responsible for how we act and for our choices moving forward.
b. Given the recent COVID situation, this has applied to my life now more than
ever. I can’t control the situation but I can react and make the most out of it.
2. “Put first things first”
a. The challenge isn’t in managing our time, but managing ourselves. We have
to learn how to prioritize what coincides most with our values.
b. Nursing school has always pushed me to prioritize what is “urgent” or due at
the moment, rather than what is important to me and my values.
3. “Sharpen the saw”
a. You are your greatest asset. You can only be a highly effective person if you
prioritize and take care of yourself in order to develop the other 6 habits.

(Covey,
Leadership Shadowing and Professional Development
Labor and Delivery Charge
Nurse Interview
1. Nursing leadership role on
a 15 bed unit
2. 4-5 years of
experience/hired internally
into the position
3. Lesson learned:
a. You don’t have to be a
charge nurse to be a
leader on your unit
BLS Course + Z Mansion
Volunteer
1. Gained confidence and
information about in
assisting in code situations
2. Provided first aid care and
assessments to homeless
population
3. Lessons learned:
a. Every individual is
deserving of care
Continuing Education

Short Term Goals

1. Nurse residency program to begin before start of 2021

2. ACLS Certification by 2021
3. Attend additional continuing education courses available
for new graduates
4. Participate in research

Long Term Goals

5. Speciality certification: CCRN within 5 years

6. Nurse aesthetician certification
7. Doctorate/CRNA within 5-8 years
8. Masters Degree to teach at a college of nursing
References

Covey, S. R. (2012). The 7 habits of highly effective people: Powerful lessons in personal
change. Place of publication not identified: FranklinCovey Co.

Kreitzer M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: application of principles across clinical settings.

Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 6 (2), e0016. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10200