A Nursing Professional Planner:
What Is It & Why Have One?
St. James Healthcare
Butte, Montana
Standards of Nursing Practice
Minimum (Regulated) Standards:
 Accountability
 Knowledge
 Continuing Competency
 Responsibility
Accountability
Examples –
• Role Modeling (Preceptor);
• Peer Feedback - accountability within ourselves and peers (i.e.
informal and formal review of outcomes);
Knowledge
Examples:
• Continually learning from each other (i.e. Focus
Groups, Professional Assoc.);
• Documenting learning sessions during an entire career (i.e.
Professional Planner)
• Validation of professional growth and knowledge-base (i.e.
Preceptor Cert.);
Continuing Competency
Examples:
• Rapid changes in technology;
• Ever-evolving changes in health care delivery;
• Evidence-based nursing (EBN);
• Regulatory policies evolving to ensure nursing
competency is maintained
(i.e. MT Board Of Nursing);
The Mind Is
Like A
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Responsibility
Examples:
• Supervision of new nurses (in training) and unlicensed health
workers;
• Care of a specific patient population, ensuring the best care
possible, i.e. Core Measures, Medical Surgical;
RN Professional Planner:
A Journal of Progress
HEALTH CARE IS NOT STANDING STILL AND NEITHER IS
MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING!
The Minimum Standards are not the end of the road…
SJH Standards of Developing
Your Nursing Planner
EXAMPLE: COLLABORATION –
Organizational Standards and Health Team designs of leadership to
promote nursing excellence and patient care:
• Preceptor Practice Support, i.e. Skills Lab/Validation
• Education Department, i.e. Seminars, Standard Work
Working Together To Create An Environment of Learning
And Continuing Competency
RN Professional Planner:
Why Have One?
• A valuable resource - for promotion and/or future job
applications;
• To develop a CV (curriculum vitae) - outlining educational and
professional qualifications;
• Professional practice plan – listing goals and achievements;
• Employment record - nursing roles or job descriptions,
certifications, and employment or personal references;
Professional RN Portfolio:
Practical Applications
• Self-Assessment: Reflective Practice {!} – the danger is that this step
can be viewed as just another chore (defeating the whole purpose);
• Peer-Feedback/Review – for improved preparation;
• Academic Requirements - clinical practice/practicum;
• Mentoring Guidelines;
• Professional Re-Certification Audit - Med-Surg, Pediatrics, or other);
• Regulatory Audit for Re-licensure – Montana BON;
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
#1. Where you
have been
#2. Where you
are now
#3. Where you
want to be
#4. How you
get there
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
PERSONAL INFORMATION –
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Name:
Title/Qualifications:
Home address:
Telephone number(s):
Home: Mobile: Fax:
E-mail address(es):
Registration Information (in each jurisdiction):
BOARD:
YEAR:
OTHER REGISTRATION:
OTHER TITLE:
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
GENERAL EDUCATION –
• Name of each college, Address(es), Dates attended:
• Name of State and National examinations taken, Dates of
examinations:
• Higher Education and Subjects taken, Dates attended:
• Extracurricular activities and Meaningful achievements
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
What to file for your record {!} – always keep copies of:
• State and National examination results;
• Other meaningful records or items;
• Further certificate, diploma, degree and other nonnursing/courses you have undertaken, whether or not
you completed them;
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -(maintain
chronological order for the rest of the Planner (journaling)
Professional Membership/Organization:
• membership dates, activities, workshops, activities/contributions;
• event role, flyers, media, electronic/video files, contacts, feedback;
In-service Training:
• any training activities or review of policies or protocols completed
or facilitated (i.e., Airway Management, BLS/ACLS);
• documentation should include title of in-service, date, venue,
learning objectives and content, reference material and handouts,
certificate (log of hours);
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -
Nursing Research - applications to medical surgical nursing:
• Study/Research Topic: dates, study methods (i.e., group activity,
readings, internet search;
• Study/Research Aims: i.e., to implement change in practice;
• Description of research/audit/project: documents studies,
websites/contacts utilized, team members/participants, progress
updates, outcomes;
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Documents: anything that you contributed to (i.e. policies,
procedures, guidelines, audits, books, chapters, articles);
Professional RN Planner:
Models & Templates
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Lectures/Seminars: (attended or presented):
• Lectures, seminars, papers, posters presented (title, dates,
locations, audience, learning objectives and content, certificate or
log of hours);
• Reference material (online, literature, contacts made, other);
• Summary of feedback (program evaluation);
Finally…
Center on your hopes and enjoyments,
and your own personal journey of wellbeing
and growth …
Susan DePasquale, CGRN, MSN
Cheryl Stensrud, MSN and Phil Dean, RN, Peer Reviewers
(2011)
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