Summary JMP-Task 2 Professional Portfolio

Professional Statement My mission statement for my career goals would be to move to a higher level PICU. I recently applied to a new hospital that does Trauma care. The current PICU that I am in does not offer trauma. I recently had 1 interview with the team, who moved me along to go onto another interview to hopefully be hired. Looking back on reflection, at my current job, I have excelled and become a "super user" in most higher-level skills. Always staying up to date on the latest evidenced-based practice for the pediatric population. I'd like to focus now on becoming a higher trained RN in the PICU. Professional Summary A. Being a learner as a healthcare professional has been good for my work. I have looked more and learned about evidence-based practice and used that in my day-to-day work life. All the artifacts and work that I have done are being applied in my bedside skills and critical thinking. The work on Professional Leadership and Communication facilitated my examination of my nursing roles, including the leadership type that I was using (Bodine, 2020). Leadership and Communication taught me how to help with others and collaborate better to utilize my coworkers’ strengths and differences. The biggest one also being Evidenced-Based Practice and Applied Nursing Research. It taught me how to appropriate utilize statistics and read the latest research. Through that I have been able to help update polices and change my units practice on some nursing bedside activities. B. As a provider of care, there are specific artifacts and work in my portfolio that represent my professional strengths. This being my eagerness to work and stay up to date on the latest research. Utilizing appropriate problem-solving skills, communication, positivity of opinion in nursing, and readiness to learn. I used to be afraid of voicing my opinion for change on the unit, especially to policy change. But now that I feel confident in reading evidence-based practice and presenting it, I have been able to effectively change multiple policies. I know am respected when it comes to my voice on the unit, which is a great change thanks to the BSN program. C. The challenges that I encountered during the progression of my program were all COVID related. Doing the Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience. Finding sites to assess and people to interview was the hardest part. Lots of places were not taking volunteers or did not have staff in person to interview. The other challenge that I ran into was time management. Between having a full-time job and having two little kids during COVID, it’s hard to find time to work on schoolwork. I. How I was about to overcome these challenges, were a couple different ways. The first challenge to overcome was finding people to volunteer with or speak to. Luckily, I work at a major hospital and have a lot of friends that were able to connect to me people in the community to speak to. The second was finding time and a place to study or take my exam. There have been times that I would have to leave the house and study at a friend’s house in order to properly study for an exam. I was about to study in the library at work, which was very helpful. My mentor was helpful on thinking of different ways to get exams and papers done. Using the writing resource lab to help proofread papers, when I either did not have enough time or focus to keep proof reading