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Jen Riedel

Direct Patient Care


Abilities

 Personal Strengths:  Short-term Goals:
• Time-management • Educating
skills
patients/family
• Compassionate
• Love to learn • Effective
• Open-minded/non- communication with
judgmental health care team
 Areas for Improvement:  Long-term Goals:
• Critical of self • Recall side effects and
• Educating patients mechanism of action
and families
for medications
• Proficient nursing
skills
Unit Leadership
Abilities

 Personal Strengths:  Short-term Goals:
• Problem solving skills • Mentor students
• Flexible • Join a committee
• Reliable • Get involved on unit
 Areas for  Long-term Goals:
Improvement:
• Become charge nurse
• Delegation
• Become preceptor
• Saying “no”
• Taking
charge/Assertiveness
Professional
Development

Short-term Goals: Long-term Goals:
• Pass NCLEX • Join AACN
• Obtain a position in • Become CCRN
a New Grad certified
Residency Program • Become travel nurse
• Advanced • Work as a nurse in
Cardiovascular Life another country
Support (ACLS)
The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People

 Paradigm shift: Keep an open mind/think from
others perspective
 Habit 1: Be proactive
 Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind
 Habit 3: Put first things first
 Habit 4: Think win-win
 Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be
understood
 Habit 6: Synergize
 Habit 7: Sharpen the saw
Leadership Shadowing
Experience

 Charge nurse in Neuro ICU at St. Joseph’s Hospital
 Knowledge Gained:
• Role of charge nurse
• Hospital wide meetings
• Gained insight of what to assess during a brain attack
Professional Activities

 Dirty House Project  Flu Shot Clinic
• Learned about DCS • Gained confidence in
• Saw another side to giving vaccinations
nursing
• Vaccination education
 Mass Casualty
Training
• Learned about what to
do in natural disasters
• Learned about
stopping active
bleeding
Continuing Education

 Personal Aspirations:  Short-term Goals:
• Proficient in Spanish • Keep up to date on EBP
• Provide health education • Know possible side-
and nursing care in other effects to common
countries medications
• Proficient in medical • ACLS
terminology  Long-term Goals:
• Never stop seeking • Learn Spanish
learning opportunities
• Participate in
educational
 Potential Opportunities: opportunities introduced
• Nurse educator on unit by the AACN
• Master’s Degree • CCRN certified
Goals Timeline

Assume
Join AACN
position in
Pass and get
New Get ACLS
NCLEX CCRN
Residency
certified
Program

Work
Charge Travel
Preceptor abroad
Nurse nursing
(Haiti)
References

 Convey, S. R. (2004). The 7 habits of highly effective
people: Powerful lessons in personal change. New York,
NY: Simon & Schuster

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