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Nursing Professional Development Plan for Career Advancement

This detailed professional development plan outlines Natalie Alwin's goals, strengths, weaknesses, and strategies to enhance her skills in direct patient care, leadership, and personal growth. It includes short and long-term objectives in various areas of nursing practice, leadership, education, and personal development.

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Nursing Professional Development Plan for Career Advancement

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  1. Professional Development Plan Natalie Alwin

  2. Direct Patient Care Leadership Strengths • Provide compassionate, holistic care • Demonstrates professional bedside manner • Can manage multiple stressful situations simultaneously Weaknesses • Ability to delegate • Lack of confidence in nursing skills • Lack of established routine

  3. Direct Patient Care Leadership Short Term Goals • Develop confidence in my nursing skills through gaining experience • Practice organizing and prioritizing tasks • Become chemotherapy certified Long Term Goals • Develop the ability to recall side effects and drug interactions of medications immediately • Orient to caring for BMT patients

  4. Unit Related Leadership Strengths • Flexible • Experienced professional role model • Understanding, patient, and kind • Not afraid of confrontation and constructive criticism • Approachable Weaknesses • Perfectionist • Tend to micromanage unintentionally

  5. Unit Related Leadership Short Term Goals • Become a charge nurse on unit • Mentor students who are assigned to follow me on unit • Join a committee Long Term Goals • Become a preceptor • Become a nurse manager on unit

  6. Professional Nursing Development Short Term Goals • Chemotherapy/biotherapy certified • PALS (Pediatric Advance Life Support) • Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) Long Term Goals • Join… • Association of Pediatric Oncology Nurses • American Nurses Association • Become a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)

  7. The Disease to Please: Curing the People – PleaserSyndrome Strengths • Believe that good can come out of conflict • Ability to stand up for myself when my beliefs are being challenged • Not afraid of confrontation or conflict Weaknesses • Overstretching to please other • Risk own happiness & health for other’s satisfaction • Seek approval when in a new environment

  8. Leadership Shadowing Experience Following the Senior Nurse Manager on the Pediatric Oncology unit was an eye-opening experience

  9. Professional & Community Activities Attending an Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) Program and a Mass Casualty training was insightful and resourceful

  10. Continuing Education/Higher Education Personal Aspirations • Educated on current EB practice • Communicate with Spanish-Speaking families Potential Opportunities • Unit led education programs • Attend Master’s Program Short Term Goals • Become chemotherapy/ biotherapy certified • PALS certified • Spanish Degree Long Term Goals • Master’s of Science in Nursing • Family Nurse Practitioner

  11. Timeline of Goal Graduate/Pass NCLEX Refine Nursing Skills & Confidence Become a charge nurse Receive a Masters of Science in Nursing Become a Nurse Manager Teach

  12. Resources Braiker, H.R. (2001). The Disease to Please: Curing the People – Please Syndrome. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill

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