Professional Development

HIMANI SULLHAN
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF NURSING
Direct Patient Care Leadership
Personal Strengths Opportunities for Improvement
• Communication • Self-confidence
• Quality care • Time management
• Empathy • Prioritization of nursing tasks
• Delegation
Short Term Goals
• Gaining confidence in my abilities Long Term Goals
• Communication with other health care • Continue using evidence-based practices
team members
• Expand critical thinking in emergency
situations
Integrative Modality
Integrative Nursing Principle #4
Integrative nursing is person-centered and relationship-based.
Modalities used:
• Giving each patient a voice in their care
• Meeting patient’s personal needs
• Building trusting relationships

(Kreitzer, 2015)
Unit Related Leadership
Personal Strengths Opportunities for Improvement
• Extrovert and friendly • Delegation
• Team player • Avoid conflict
• Comfortable asking for help • Perfectionist

Short Term Goals Long Term Goals

• Mentor student nurses • Become a preceptor to student or new
graduate nurse
• Become a charge nurse
• Participate in a unit improvement project
Professional Nursing Development
Short Terms Goals
• Complete Pediatric Advanced Life
Support (PALS)
• Complete Neonatal Resuscitation
Program (NRP)
Long Term Goals
• Become active member of Association
of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and
Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
• Volunteer abroad in underserved
communities
 Nursing 479 Book Selection
Rationale
• Looking for insight on how to deal with perfectionist tendencies and worry less
Complimented own strengths and areas for improvement
• Personal strength: awareness of perfectionist personality and being too critical of self
• Area for improvement: learning coping mechanisms to deal with anxiety and how to
restructure thoughts
Benefits
• Identify, challenge and restructure detrimental thoughts
• Techniques to help with a perfectionist personality (Domar & Kelly, 2008)
Leadership Shadow Experience
Labor and Delivery Charge Nurse
• Interest in seeing how charge nurse role differs between postpartum and
labor and delivery units
Advantages
• Attended morning huddle led by night shift charge nurse
• Gave me insight into the role of the charge nurse on a labor and delivery
unit
• Learned about unit staffing and ratios
• Witnessed the role of the charge nurse in emergency situations
 Professional Activity/Community Service
Stop the Bleed Basic Life Support Integrative Cardiology
Rationale Rationale Rationale
• Relevant in today’s society• Renew certification and • Interest in learning how to
refresh CPR skills improve heart health
Benefits Benefits Benefits
• Learned how to help others • Learned proper technique • Learned non-traditional
who are injured for code arrest methods for improving
• More prepared on what to • Learned about any changes heart health
do in emergency situation that have occurred with
technique in the last 2
years
 Continuation of Education in Nursing
Personal Aspirations Potential Opportunities
• Keep up to date with evidence-based practices • DNP through University of Arizona
• Achieve fluency in Spanish in a medical setting • Attend obstetrics/neonatal nursing
conferences

Short Term Goals

Long Term Goals
• Complete required education programs for
unit and nurse residency • DNP: family, pediatric or women’s health
• Explore additional educational opportunities
• Learn new skills on the unit
 Expected Timeline
2019
• December 2019: BSN graduation

• February 2020: Pass NCLEX

Short • March 2020: Begin first RN job with one year
Term 2020 nurse residency
Goals • October 2020: Apply to DNP program
• March 2021: Complete nurse residency
2021
• August 2021: Begin DNP program
Long
2025 • DNP graduation, begin practicing as NP Term
Goals
References
Domar, A. D., & Kelly, A. L. (2008). Be happy without being perfect: how to worry less and enjoy

life more. New York: Three Rivers Press.

Kreitzer, M. J. (2015). Integrative nursing: application of principles across clinical settings.

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 6(2), e0016. doi:10.5041/RMMJ.10200