Personal Strategic Plan For Nursing

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Personal Strategic Plan Michelle C. Muniz Department of Nursing, University of Maine Fort Kent NUR 407: 2001 – Leadership and Management in Health Care Tanya Sleeper, PhD, JD, MSN, MSB, GNP-BC, CHC March 3, 2024 Personal Strategic Plan In my professional role as a registered nurse, I both value and endeavor to uphold respect, integrity, trust, accountability, communication, collaboration, and personal growth. I strive to incorporate the above values and principles into my professional practice to ensure safe and equitable patient care while also maintaining my physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing. I staunchly believe that one cannot successfully fill the cups of others if their own cup remains empty, and I aspire to pave an esteemed career …show more content…

Interpersonal skills: Effective communication is essential to successfully: Convey concerns between clinicians, update apprehensive family members, and counsel anxious patients and their spouses. Collaborative: Obstetrics relies considerably on the expertise of numerous specialties and sub-specialties, necessitating interprofessional collaboration to ensure positive patient outcomes. Integrity: Obstetrics—especially labor and delivery—requires mutual trust between the patient and the clinician to ensure the safety and health of both mother and child. Empathy: Complications—such as fetal demise or the diagnosis of congenital disorders—arise frequently in obstetrics, requiring a particularly empathetic approach to patient care. Critical thinking: Labor and delivery (L&D) can be a precarious process, requiring exceptional critical thinking skills to closely monitor clinical changes and anticipate crucial interventions. Diplomacy: Family dynamics are wide-ranging and unique; diplomacy is essential to mediating conflict and ensuring each patient’s wishes are respected. Emotional balance and control: Obstetrics can be unpredictable and emotionally draining, and it is imperative that clinicians remain in control of their emotions even during …show more content…

Career Goals 1 Year from Now Achieve PCRN certification; review OB nursing; shadow MMC’s L&D unit; pursue clinical nursing position in labor and delivery unit. Compensation aligns with union contract compensation schedule. 2-3 Years from Now Achieve obstetrics and doula certifications (part-time); gain experience and develop skills as an L&D nurse; act as preceptor for nursing students and both new and experienced nurses orienting to the unit. Compensation aligns with union contract compensation schedule. 5 Years from Now Enroll in and complete Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) program via Frontier University; complete Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP) post-master’s certificate; begin NP career in hospital setting. While enrolled in CNM/WHNP programs, compensation aligns with union contract compensation schedule; as an NP in an acute care setting, compensation would begin at approximately $125,000 (excluding inflation adjustments). 10 Years from Now Work as NP in private women’s clinic providing both preventative and prenatal/antenatal/postnatal—during normal business hours Monday-Thursday, no nights, weekends, or calls. Compensation remains in the $125,000 range, but also includes a percentage of the

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