Professional Development

This document discusses professional development goals for a registered nurse, including providing excellent patient care, enhancing technology skills, continuous learning, and becoming a mentor. It also explores aligning these goals with the university's emphasis on social change.

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Professional development
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Step 2: Professional Development Goals
Use the space below to write a statement identifying your professional development
goals.
Having worked as a registered nurse for more than ten years, I have identified some
professional goals I would like to achieve in the long run. The professional development
goals will ensure I remain abreast for the new procedures and expectations in the nursing
field. Among my professional goals is;
Providing excellent care for my patients. This aims at satisfying the patients fully. The
excellent care ranges from administering the medications in the right quantity, quality
and time. Attending to the emotional and mental status of the patients especially those in
psychiatric wards and checking on vital signs for patients among others (Zepeda, 2013).
Another important professional goal is to enhance my technology skills. With better
understanding of the evolving technology, as a nurse, I will be able to provide better
health care to patients. I will also use technology to discern the anatomical and
psychological symptoms in patients from better care.
I also intend to learn something new every quarter. I want to develop means to advance
on the medical techniques, learn on the recommended delivery of patient care and
research on ways to engage more in technology skills.
My net goal is to become a mentor to other certified nursing assistants as well as medical
technicians. I would like to continue with my training and education to advance more in
the field. I always had a passion in nursing and therefore I would like to inspire someone.

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Serving in a mentoring capacity will enable other health care providers to better their care
and work with competency (Werner and DeSimone, 2011).
Lastly, I want to maintain efficiency. As a nurse, I am entitled to attend to many patients
at the same time. Therefore, I must be able to operate me the most efficient way by
practicing time- management, delegating more and multi-tasking (Pedler, Burgoyne, and
Boydell, 2013).
Step 3: Alignment with Social Change
Use the space below to write a statement proposing how you might align one or more of
your professional development goals with the University’s emphasis on social change.
I would align efficiency with the university’s emphasis on social change. As mentioned
earlier, as a nurse I am entitled to attend everal patients at the same time. These
necessitates one to apply flexibility in the work schedules. I will have to ensure that all
the patients are attended to within the time allocated. Therefore time management skills
have to be applied. In so doing, I will allocate specific time to specific schedules. I will
also ensure all the patients are attend to to save their lives. Another important aspect in
improving efficiency is training myself on multi-tasking. I will ensure that I maximize
my time to attend to all the patients who require my attention. The ultimate outcome for
this goal is to complete all shifts in time and complete all the task as well in time. In
addition, efficiency will inspire other medical technicians and certified nursing assistants
to do their best. This will lead to patient’s satisfaction. When the patients are satisfied, the
society at large is satisfied. Efficiency in my work will bring upon some positive changes
in the society as advocated by the university. Feedback from the patients will help assess

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if efficiency has been achieved (Archer, 2010). I will use the feedback to self-monitor,
myself and determine where to work on.

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References
Archer, J. C. (2010). State of the science in health professional education: effective
feedback. Medical education, 44(1), 101-108.
Pedler, M., Burgoyne, J., & Boydell, T. (2013). A Manager's Guide to Self-development.
McGraw-Hill Education (UK).
Werner, J. M., & DeSimone, R. L. (2011). Human resource development. Cengage
Learning.
Zepeda, S. J. (2013). Professional development: What works? Routledge.