N479 Professional

Development
Brandon Harvison
 Direct Patient Care Abilities
Personal Strengths: Short-term goals:

● Advocate for patients - With patients’ ● Fulfill an actual role during a code
doctors, family, and friends ● Provide all care for a true ICU patient,
● Can connect with patients/their
with no assistance from my preceptor
families and build trust
● Provide consistent, unbiased care

Opportunities for Improvement: Long term goals:

● Time management - Completing all ● Develop and perfect my “way of

nursing tasks for all patients in a timely nursing”
manner ● Preceptor a student nurse and have
● Confidence - Knowing that I no longer peers ask for assistance
have to “fake it till I make it”
 Unit Leadership Abilities
Personal Strengths: Short-term goals:

● Work well within a team ● Learn more about unit leadership

● Can build rapport with other nurses, opportunities
nurse managers, doctors, etc.
● Shadow different leadership roles
● Passion for helping others, as needed

Opportunities for Improvement: Long-term goals:

● Acknowledging that others have ● Try fulfilling charge nurse role

different ways of completing tasks, and ● Work as charge nurse for an extended
allowing them to do so period of time
● Letting go of control
 Professional Development
Short-term goals:

1) Take and pass the NCLEX

2) Complete ACLS certification
3) Complete New Graduate Experience at Banner UMC

Long-term goals:

1) Apply to out-of-state RN positions and leave Arizona

2) Work as a charge nurse on an intensive care unit
3) Work as a nurse supervisor of a hospital
 Management/Leadership Book

Bossypants (2011) by Tina Fey

● Compliments strengths: Team player is the best kind of player

● Compliments areas for improvement: Letting go of control and
allowing others to see you as their peer, rather than their boss;
Others way of doing things can be beneficial to you
● Beneficial for professional growth: Being a leader is a lot more than
just yelling and waving your hands around, you have to be there for
your people
 Rationale for Leadership Shadowing

Nurse Manager at Oro Valley Hospital

● Completed full 8-hours

● Was not aware of the position at all before preceptorship
● Could give insight into other positions outside of nursing roles like
charge nurse or case manager
● Heard that this position is truly an accomplishment and something
to strive for
 Rationale for Professional Activities

DNP Presentations

● Enhanced my knowledge of the doctoral thesis

Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

● Enhanced my knowledge of CPR and AEDs

UA TeleHealth OSCE

● Enhanced my knowledge of an up-and-coming nursing practice

 Continuing and Higher Education

Personal Aspirations Long-term goals:

● ACLS Certification ● Apply for DNP programs and start off

● Critical Care Nurse (CCRN) part-time
● Fully commit to DNP program full-time

Short-term goals: Potential Opportunities

● Practice in an adult ICU for 1,750 hours ● Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse
● Pass exam and become CCRN (AOCN)
● Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse
Practitioner (AOCNP)
 Visual Timeline

Pass NCLEX Become Full-time

& begin job CCRN DNP
1 year 4 years

2-3 2-3 years 5 years

months Fully Apply for DNP
competent program
RN w/ ACLS
 References

Fey, T. (2011). Bossypants. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company.