Professional

Development
Presentation
Tarryn OMahoney
 Personal Strengths Short term goals
Compassionate Gain experience in
Organized new skills related
to the NICU
Sensitive
Direct Refine my nursing
Patient Care brain
Abilities Opportunities for Long term goals
Improvement
Become an expert
Creativity regarding in my field
decision making Study for RNC test
Assertiveness Be cross trained to
the PICU
Nursing
Brain
 Personal Short term
Strengths goals
Good listener Serve as a role
Empowers others model
Unit Team player Join a
Leadership committee on
Abilities the unit
Opportunities Long term goals
for Improvement
Precept
Decisiveness
students and
Authority new nurses
 Short term goals (Present-2 years)
Professional Get involved in NANN local chapter
Developme (Northern California)
nt: Attend in-services on new techniques
Organizatio and skills
ns, Journals, Obtain NRP certification
and Long term goals (3-5 years)
Certification Obtain RNC-NIC
s
Continue education in NICU
 Strengths
Stay humble
Take as many
Leadership
opportunities to
Book: First continue to learn
Year Nurse
by Barbara
Areas for
Arnoldussen improvement
Dont get discouraged
as a new nurse
 This is a position I would
like to hold one day
Leadership Understanding the
Shadowing responsibilities of the
charge nurse will help
Experience: me be a better member
NICU of the NICU team
Charge Learned about staffing
Nurse ratios, rounding on
nurses, and
prioritization
 I chose this activity because I want to
pursue a career in pediatrics

Professional This class enhanced my knowledge of what

Activity: to do in critical pediatric situations
PALS class
Improved my
confidence and
helped prepare me
for what I may see
in my future in
pediatrics
 Obtain
Get a Precept Precept
NRP
job in a student new hire
certifica
NICU nurses nurses
te

Timeline
 Personal aspirations
Find a job in a NICU near my family home in
the San Francisco Bay Area
Potential opportunities
Read more books and take some continuing
education courses in NICU specific topics
Short term goal
Continuing Become a preceptor for students
education Long term goal
plan Become a preceptor for new hire employees
Reference
Arnoldussen, B. (2009).First year nurse: wisdom,
s warnings, and what I wish I knew my first 100
days on the job. New York: Kaplan Pub.