NURS 479 Professional Development Grid/Plan Name: Tanya Darkwah Date: 05/03/2017

Area Strengths Weakness/Opportunity for Short-term goals/strategies Long term goals/strategies

Improvement Present-2 years 3-5 years

Direct -Compassionate -Lack confidence in my -Become confident In my -Become an excellent patient

-Honest abilities that is directly
Patient Care
-People person related to lack of
Leadership -Committed experience.
-Lacks an efficient method
to charting due to lack of
experience as a nurse.
Unit Related -Pays close attention -Lacks the assertiveness
Leadership to detail required due to
-Great organizational inexperience as a nurse.
skills
-Works well with others -Lack the experience
(teamwork) necessary to supervise
and guidance to assist the
nursing staff with difficult
patients or patients that
have special needs.
skills and abilities as a
registered nurse.
-Develop an efficient way
to chart that does not
interfere with patient
safety or satisfaction.
-Gain assertiveness that
is required when in the
leadership role.
-Become proficient in
supervising and guiding
nursing staff with difficult
patients or those who
have special needs.
advocate creating a relationship
with my patients that is full of
trust.
-Provide care that is sensitive to
the patients needs and
maintain patient dignity.
-Become an excellent unit
charge nurse on a labor and
delivery unit.

Professional -Become a member of the -Become a member of the

Nursing Association of Womens Journal of Midwifery and
Development: Health, Obstetric and Womens Health (JMWH), which
Organizations, Neonatal Nurses Journal. is the official journal of the
Journals/ American College of Nurse-
-Become a member of the
Midwives.
Certifications AORN Journal
NURS 479 -Learned tools to -Learn to manage myself
Book selection enhance my time and the people I work with
management and goal so that both the
(based on your
setting strategies. organization I work for and
strengths and
weaknesses)
the people I encounter
-Learn tools that help profit from the encounter.
me reach my full
potential.
- Feel good about myself
 and my abilities because I
will use time more
efficiently. Feeling good
about yourself is key to
getting more done.
Leadership -The experience -Lacks the experience to
Shadowing enhanced my provide administration
Experience strengths because it support and patient care.
allowed me to gain a
better understanding -Lacks the experience to
of the duties of a assign nurses and support
charge nurse. staff to particular patient.

-Gained the
opportunity to
visualize effective
strategies on how to
defuse conflicts
between nursing staff
and patient.

-Gained insight into

creating schedules for
the upcoming shift.
Professional -Visualized myself as a -Gained insight on the
Activity/ Community charge nurse taking on importance of having
Service the many task and effective time
responsibilities they management and
have. organizational skills as a
charge nurse.
-Gained insight into
the importance of
working with other
professionals in the
healthcare system to
deliver the best
patient care possible.
Education: -Become a registered -Gain enough time/hours -Become a board certified -Get accepted and complete a
nurse by passing the on the unit and train to lactation specialist. nurse midwife program.
Continuing Nursing NCLEX become a lactation -Begin taking courses
Education and/or specialist. necessary to prepare to
plans for Higher -Obtain Neonatal
apply to a nurse midwife
Education Resuscitation Program
program.
(NRP)