Nursing Professional Development Plan

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Professional Development Plan
The development of a future professional plan is an important and vital component of ensuring continued professional growth and progress. The nursing profession is constantly changing and evolving as research potentiates and produces new or improved evidenced based practices and advanced technologies. The professional nurse must constantly and proactively seek out educational opportunities and adapt his/her practices based on the foundation of new evidenced based knowledge, practices, and the utilization of advanced technology.
The development of a successful professional plan must be tailored and individualized to the specific professional nurse. The professional development plan must include the assessment …show more content…

During his thirty years of practice he has served in many staff and administrative roles that included, clinical oncology staff nurse, clinical oncology unit educator, clinical oncology nurse manager, director of quality management, and program manager for hospice services. The author has been employed within the same hospital system for twenty-nine years. The author assesses his current professional and personal life to be in the phase of generativity with the goals of continued societal contribution, the mentoring of new and novice nurses, the maintaining of an excellent standard of professional performance, and the proactive planning for a strategic exit from nursing practice, and the entry into retirement within the next eight years. The completion of academic preparation and the obtaining of a BSN will be a major goal accomplishment and will optimize the potential for viable career longevity until retirement as the minimum entry level into nursing practice of a BSN rapidly approaches (Institute of Medicine, …show more content…

The steps involved in maintaining viability will include attendance and participation in continuing educational opportunities related to topics addressing hospice and home health issues and trends that involve changes in evidenced based practices, governmental and regulatory compliance, palliative care, and end-of-life discussions and approaches that impact and improve the quality of care and the promotion of comfort for the person who is dying (Chi Ho Chan & Fong Tin, 2012). The goal of continuing education will be funded partially by the author’s employer. The author will also proactively and independently seek out educational learning

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