A Nursing Professional Planner: What Is It & Why Have One?

A Nursing Professional Planner:What Is It & Why Have One? St. James Healthcare Butte, Montana

Standards of Nursing Practice Minimum (Regulated) Standards: • Accountability • Knowledge • Continuing Competency • Responsibility

Accountability Examples – • Role Modeling (Preceptor); • Peer Feedback - accountability within ourselves and peers (i.e. informal and formal review of outcomes);

Knowledge Examples: • Continually learning from each other (i.e. Focus Groups, Professional Assoc.); • Documenting learning sessions during an entire career (i.e. Professional Planner) • Validation of professional growth and knowledge-base (i.e. Preceptor Cert.);

Continuing Competency Examples: • Rapid changes in technology; • Ever-evolving changes in health care delivery; • Evidence-based nursing (EBN); • Regulatory policies evolving to ensure nursing competency is maintained (i.e. MT Board Of Nursing); The Mind Is Like A Parachute

Responsibility Examples: • Supervision of new nurses (in training) and unlicensed health workers; • Care of a specific patient population, ensuring the best care possible, i.e. Core Measures, Medical Surgical;

RN Professional Planner: A Journal of Progress HEALTH CARE IS NOT STANDING STILL AND NEITHER IS MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING! The Minimum Standards are not the end of the road…

SJH Standards of Developing Your Nursing Planner EXAMPLE: COLLABORATION – Organizational Standards and Health Team designs of leadership to promote nursing excellence and patient care: • Preceptor Practice Support, i.e. Skills Lab/Validation • Education Department, i.e. Seminars, Standard Work Working Together To Create An Environment of Learning And Continuing Competency

RN Professional Planner: Why Have One? • A valuable resource - for promotion and/or future job applications; • To develop a CV (curriculum vitae) - outlining educational and professional qualifications; • Professional practice plan – listing goals and achievements; • Employment record - nursing roles or job descriptions, certifications, and employment or personal references;

Professional RN Portfolio: Practical Applications • Self-Assessment: Reflective Practice {!} – the danger is that this step can be viewed as just another chore (defeating the whole purpose); • Peer-Feedback/Review – for improved preparation; • Academic Requirements - clinical practice/practicum; • Mentoring Guidelines; • Professional Re-Certification Audit - Med-Surg, Pediatrics, or other); • Regulatory Audit for Re-licensure – Montana BON;

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates #2. Where you are now #1. Where you have been #3. Where you want to be #4. How you get there

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates PERSONAL INFORMATION – • Name: • Title/Qualifications: • Home address: • Telephone number(s): • Home: Mobile: Fax: • E-mail address(es): • Registration Information (in each jurisdiction): BOARD: YEAR: OTHER REGISTRATION: OTHER TITLE:

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates GENERAL EDUCATION – • Name of each college, Address(es), Dates attended: • Name of State and National examinations taken, Dates of examinations: • Higher Education and Subjects taken, Dates attended: • Extracurricular activities and Meaningful achievements

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates What to file for your record {!}– always keep copies of: • State and National examination results; • Other meaningful records or items; • Further certificate, diploma, degree and other non-nursing/courses you have undertaken, whether or not you completed them;

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -(maintain chronological order for the rest of the Planner (journaling) Professional Membership/Organization: • membership dates, activities, workshops, activities/contributions; • event role, flyers, media, electronic/video files, contacts, feedback; In-service Training: • any training activities or review of policies or protocols completed or facilitated (i.e., Airway Management, BLS/ACLS); • documentation should include title of in-service, date, venue, learning objectives and content, reference material and handouts, certificate (log of hours);

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Nursing Research - applications to medical surgical nursing: • Study/Research Topic: dates, study methods (i.e., group activity, readings, internet search; • Study/Research Aims: i.e., to implement change in practice; • Description of research/audit/project: documents studies, websites/contacts utilized, team members/participants, progress updates, outcomes; • Documents: anything that you contributed to (i.e. policies, procedures, guidelines, audits, books, chapters, articles);

Professional RN Planner: Models & Templates CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT - Lectures/Seminars: (attended or presented): • Lectures, seminars, papers, posters presented (title, dates, locations, audience, learning objectives and content, certificate or log of hours); • Reference material (online, literature, contacts made, other); • Summary of feedback (program evaluation);

Finally… Center on your hopes and enjoyments, and your own personal journey of wellbeing and growth … Susan DePasquale, CGRN, MSN Cheryl Stensrud, MSN and Phil Dean, RN, Peer Reviewers (2011)

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A Nursing Professional Planner: What Is It & Why Have One?