An honest, objective personal assessment is a crucial aspect of personal career planning, a key element of lifelong learning, and forms the foundation of a personal development plan CITE ADAMS & ALLRED. A SWOT, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, analysis, is frequently used by organizations to assist in strategic planning, and is equally applicable to the creation of a personal development plan CITE ADAMS & ALLRED. This author modified the personal SWOT analysis replacing threats and opportunities with goals and objectives, in combination with Patricia Benner’s self assessment tool in her personal assessment. This author considers one of her strengths to be the broad knowledge base and strong assessment skills acquired …show more content…
Although emergency room experience has furnished this author with a broad knowledge base, this author feels that she is lacking in the necessary depth of knowledge regarding disease pathophysiology and pharmacologic treatment of diseases. Additionally, while this author’s assessment skills are strong, they are not at the level required for advanced practice. Currently, this author would fall into the novice category of Benner’s Novice to Expert Model; inexperienced and lacking in confidence regarding their role, and needing frequent prompting CITE BENNER. Despite having worked closely with numerous nurse practitioners during the course of her career as a registered nurse, this author possesses only observational knowledge of what it entails to function effectively as a nurse practitioner on a daily basis. Areas of focus for this author’s career include improving assessment, analytical and critical thinking skills, as well as becoming proficient in interpreting laboratory and diagnostic test results. This author realizes that a higher level of skill than she currently possesses is required in order to take the information obtained during a history and physical exam, combine it with the subjective information obtained from the patient, formulate an appropriate treatment plan, and then adjust the plan depending on test results and the patient’s response to
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The assessment helped me to deeply think about my career and the things that I would want in the organization that I hope to work for. I believe it to be an accurate assessment and helps an individual put what is important to them into perspective. It is often helpful in career counseling to have an indication of where the client is in terms of career decision or indecision (Whiston. 2017). This tool
Every day there is a constant trust adhered to many different people in the profession of Nursing—the decision of what will help patients in terms of medicine, and the confidence to make these decisions. One false act or one slight misdiagnoses of medication to a patient could be the prime factor in whether the patient lives or dies. Nurses in hospitals across the country are spread thin, and thus makes the probability of mistakes higher. If a medicinal dose is off by even one decimal a patient could die, so the only real answer is for nurses to not be afraid to ask for assistance, always follow procedure and voice opinion is they feel something is wrong.
Firstly, nurses are expected to practice evidence-based health care hence a mastery of information about the essential and safe dose of drugs for a patient is very important for a nurse. Consequently, it could be the determinant between the life and the death of the patient. Pharmacology is a discipline which is mandatory for the nurse to excel in to be efficient in discharging his/her duties. Understanding which drug to use, the right dosage, the expected side effects which may occur and the contra-indications of the various drugs are key in the preservation of
In any disease treatment process, the patient's track record plays a considerable role in determining care plan. Before an individual is even diagnosed with a medical practitioner associated with a particular illness, a physician will usually make reference to the patients history. In his health record, information for instance family history, personal history, medications prescribed, laboratory reports, and also other pertinent information might be referenced. Armed with this information, healthcare providers are better equipped to diagnose a person quickly and accurately.
Lowman, Rodney L. (1991). The Clinical Practice of Career Assessment: Interest, Abilities, and Personalities (1st ed.). Washington: American Psychological Association.
The author has designed the personal learning plan around the diagnosis of his learning needs, statement of specific learning objectives, learning resources and strategies, evidence of accomplishment, how the evidence will be validated, and how the learning will be evaluated. I will concentrate on the five disciplines: Systems Thinking, Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Visions, and Team Learning introduced by Peter M. Senge. This will allow me to expand my leadership abilities at my current job as well as jobs that I may hold in the future. What distinguishes leaders is the clarity and persuasiveness of their ideas, the depth of their commitment, and the extent of their openness to continually learning more. They do not "have the answer," but they seem to instill confidence in those around them that, together, "we can learn whatever we need to learn in order to achieve the results we truly desire" (Senge, 2006). Senge is explaining to us the importance of being open and to expand our knowledge. That is why every leader and employee should create a learning plan, so that they can understand as much about themselves. This allows them not only to believe in themselves, but others to believe in them as well.
The SWOT analysis is a useful tool for identifying our personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to our plans and goals. According to a “Fuel My Motivation” article (2010), this analysis considers internal influences that can positively or negatively affect our ability to achieve our goals. The internal factors are our strengths and weaknesses. Also considered are opportunities and threats, which are external influences that can have a positive or negative impact on the ability to achieve our goals. I will share how the self-assessment instruments and self-exercises in this course have contributed to assessing and understanding my strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss techniques I will use to leverage my strengths and understand my weaknesses. In addition, I will consider opportunities that I can take advantage of and the threats that can possibly impede my progress.
It is necessary that as an advanced practice nurse that we are educated on disorders that exist in today’s society. Our knowledge on numerous disorders, will eventually influence our practice in a positive fashion. Being competent in properly diagnosing individuals and providing the correct treatment plan have a tendency to heighten the individual’s outcome. In this assignment three scenarios will be reviewed. After reviewing each scenario, a diagnosis will be constructed and the pathophysiology description of each disorder will be stated.
In this report, I will reflect on my professional development throughout this module, from when I started in September, to now. According to Beausaert et al. (2011), ‘the art of self-evaluation is an integral element of reflection and involves critical insight into understanding one 's strengths and limitations’. Therefore, my aim is to identify my learning needs and to recognise my personal skills and capabilities, as well as identifying areas of my skill set that need to be refreshed or extended to stand out in the competitive job market. By doing this, I hope to demonstrate knowledge of the skills that I have gained during this module.
The personal plan has enabled me to track myself on my developmental changes that are important for my achievement of set goals. Planning has also allowed me to keep track of all the steps that I will need to acquire skills and knowledge. I have also been able to see that if I continue in my current method I will not achieve all of my goals and through techniques such as SWOT analysis I have identified these areas and begun to create methods to fix this problem. The basic purpose of this essay is to point out my personal and professional skill development because these two areas are interwoven.
To start this planning, I used the planning (P) process of the P-O-L-C framework (Carpenter, Bauer, & Erdogan, 2009) to guide my thought. Mission & vision, strategizing, and goals & objectives of my individual development plan must be established in the planning process (Carpenter et al., 2009). The mission and vision statement are a depiction of what I want to achieve in my career and personal growth. In addition, I must set up my goals and potential strategies to promote my personal development. To establish the goals of the individual development plan, the SMART format must be used (Duffus, 2004; University of Wisconsin-Madison, n.d.).
The first step of career management process is self-assessment. Self-assessment is refers to the employees using some information that help them to decide which career they really interested to pursue, ability, skills, and behavioural tendencies. According to Allen (2005), self-assessment is a process to identify skills, abilities, knowledge of the employees. During this step, the employees need to do some tests such as the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory and the Self-Directed Search. The tests help the employees to identify the value of work that they place on their work and also leisure activities. Self-assessment is also involved with some exercises which able the employees to identify their career future plan, where are they for now and also how their career match with the current situation and resource that available (Noe, 2010). After done with the exercises, career counsellors usually used to assist the employee in their self-assessment process and also provide explanation about their result of psychology tests. Then the employees assess their current skills and abilities and also capabilities they are lacking with some informa...
Personality traits and career success have become intertwined through research and job performance. By taking personality assessments, an individual is more equipped with understanding one’s own traits which will in turn provide tools for success in the work place and personal life. The author within this article combs through personality tests and assessment results with the main objective of bettering his understanding of himself. By reviewing and analyzing personality strengths and weaknesses, an individual may become better equipped for success in the work place and in one’s own personal life. Step 1 What about me?
Personal Development is a lifelong process that involves the assessment of current skills and talents and the enhancement of oneself based on that assessment which then leads to the realization of goals and an improved quality of life. To be able to assess yourself, you need to be able to reflect on your past which helps you to understand the attitudes you have developed and the foundation that you will be building your life on. Also, you have to reflect on your present to see if there’s room for improvement and reflect on your future so that you can achieve your aspirations.