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Professional
Development Plan
Holly Zuehlke-Frazelle
BSN, December 2016

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Direct Patient Care Abilities
Strengths:
Proactive

Short

patient

advocate
Strong organizational
skills in planning patient
care
Opportunities

for

Improvement:
Improve time
management
Develop leadership skills
Gain more confidence

Term Goal/Strategy
Goal: Improve time
management
Strategy: Learn to
effectively delegate
Long Term Goal/Strategy
Goal: Seek continuing
education to enhance
clinical skills
Strategy: Enroll in
continuing education
courses

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Unit Leadership Abilities

Strengths:
Actively assists other
members of care team
Utilizes positive
leadership traits
Opportunities for
Improvement:
No previous experience
in a nursing leadership
role
Seek mentor
relationship from a
nurse in a leadership
role

Short Term Goal/Strategy:

Goal: Become a mentor
Strategy: Seek training
in order to precept new
nurses

Long Term Goal/Strategy:

Goal: Attain position of
charge nurse
Strategy: Express desire
to perform this role

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Professional Advancement
Opportunities
Short

Term
Goal/Strategy:
Goal: Join the ANA and
cardiac focused
organizations

Strategy:

Register for
the American
Association of Heart
Failure Nurses and
subscribe to the Journal
of Cardiovascular
Nursing

Long

Term
Goal/Strategy:
Goal: Receive
additional
accreditations
Strategy: Receive
certification as a
Cardiac-Vascular
Nurse

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Selected Book For Leadership
Development

Opportunity

for
Improvement:
Gain more selfconfidence
Lessen need to be
a perfectionist

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Leadership Shadowing
Experience with Charge Nurse
Opportunity

for
Improvement:
Gain leadership
education
Improve
understanding of
the leadership role

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Professional Activity: St. Lukes
Hearing Clinic

Strengths:
Patient

focused

care
Interprofessional
team
communication

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Educational Plan

Personal Aspirations:
Attain continuing
education to further
improve quality of
patient care

Attain continuing
education with a
cardiac focus

Potential Opportunities:
Certification as a
Cardiac-Vascular Nurse

Conduct research

Short Term Goal/Strategy

Goal: Refine best

practice

Strategy: Utilize
continuing education
courses

Long Term Goal/Strategy

Goal: Either get Masters

in Education or DNP in
yet to be determined
specialty

Strategy: Once decided

what direction to go,
apply to graduate
schools and complete
desired degree

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Timeline for Goals/Strategies

Spring
2017
Pass
NCLEX
and start
as staff
nurse

Spring
2017
Join cardiac
care
organization
/journal

Fall
2018

Spring
2021

Receive
ANCC
Cardiac/Vasc
Strong
ular Nurse
Time
Certification,
management
Continuing
skills
education,
developed, attain
strong
position as
delegation charge nurse
skills

Fall
2022
Begin
Graduate
School

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Reference

Fey, Tina. (2011). Bossypants. New York: Reagan Arthur

Books/Little, Brown and Company.