N4455 Nursing Leadership and Management
Module 5 Assignment 2: Professional Development Plan
Name: Deborah Otto Date: 2/13/2021
Overview: Professional Development Plan
This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to
improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make
and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by
creating a professional development plan.
Look back at your Professional Development Inventory and Leadership Self-Assessment from
module one. Use these tools as you develop your own professional development plan for both
short term and long term success. You will develop your own personal nursing philosophy, using
previously developed philosophies (cite sources). You will then set short term and long term goals
keeping in mind intrinsic and extrinsic forces that may aid or hinder your progress.
Submit this assignment on this template and submit as a docx document.
Objectives
Explain how organizations function.
Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.
Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.
Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the Week 5 Professional Development Plan.
Tasks Target Acceptable Unacceptable
Statement of (16-20 points) (9-15 points) (0-8 points)
Philosophy Clear statement of Statement of One or more
(max 20 points) philosophy of philosophy of philosophy
nursing nursing statements
(7 points) (5 points) missing or poorly
written
Clear statement of Statement of
(0-5 points)
personal personal
philosophy philosophy
(6 points) (5 points)
Both philosophies Both philosophies Little or no
clearly reflected in somewhat evidence of
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values, vision, and reflected in values, connections
personal interests vision, and between
(in first personal interests philosophies and
assessment tool) (in first assessment tools
(7 points) assessment tool) (0-3 points)
(5 points)
Use of (14-20 points) (4-13 points) (0-3 points)
Assessment Detailed Completion of Little or no
Tools to completion of Assessment Tools completion of
Formulate Goals Assessment Tools Assessment Tools
(3-4 points)
(max 20 points) (5 points) (0-2 points)
Clearly-articulated List of at least four List of at least two
list of at least four prioritized goals goals
prioritized goals (3 points) (0-1 point)
based on
assessments
(5 points)
All goals stated in Some goals stated No goals stated in
measurable terms in measureable measurable terms
(5 points) terms (0 points)
(3 points)
Dates identified for Dates identified for No dates identified
accomplishing accomplishing (0 points)
each goal most goals
(5 points) (3 points)
Specific Identified specific Some strategies Vague or no
Strategies strategies for that are related to description of
(max 20 points) accomplishing pursuance of goals strategies
each goal (11-15 points total) (0-10 points)
(16-20 points total)
Priority of Goals Priority of each Goals are related Priorities are not
(max 20 points) goal consistent to values indicated and/or
with statements (11-15 points total) goals are not
of values clearly related to
values
(16-20 points total)
(0-10 points)
References At least three Two references Fewer than two
(max 10 points) references (4 points) references
(5 points) (0-2 points)
References Fewer than three Three or more APA
formatted correctly APA format errors format errors
(APA) (4 points) (0-2 points)
(5 points)
Format & Professional, error- Generally Error-laden APA
Organization free APA formats, acceptable APA formats, spelling,
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Module 5 Assignment 2: Professional Development Plan
Name: Deborah Otto Date: 2/13/2021
Overview: Professional Development Plan
This course aims to help you utilize quality improvement processes and management tools to
improve client care outcomes, partly by improving the nurse’s working environment as you make
and implement good decisions. Now you will apply those processes and tools to yourself by
creating a professional development plan.
Look back at your Professional Development Inventory and Leadership Self-Assessment from
module one. Use these tools as you develop your own professional development plan for both
short term and long term success. You will develop your own personal nursing philosophy, using
previously developed philosophies (cite sources). You will then set short term and long term goals
keeping in mind intrinsic and extrinsic forces that may aid or hinder your progress.
Submit this assignment on this template and submit as a docx document.
Objectives
Explain how organizations function.
Compare and contrast characteristics of leadership and management.
Apply trends, issues, theories, and evidence as guidelines for management decisions.
Evaluate effectiveness of communication patterns using specific management situations.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the Week 5 Professional Development Plan.
Tasks Target Acceptable Unacceptable
Statement of (16-20 points) (9-15 points) (0-8 points)
Philosophy Clear statement of Statement of One or more
(max 20 points) philosophy of philosophy of philosophy
nursing nursing statements
(7 points) (5 points) missing or poorly
written
Clear statement of Statement of
(0-5 points)
personal personal
philosophy philosophy
(6 points) (5 points)
Both philosophies Both philosophies Little or no
clearly reflected in somewhat evidence of
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values, vision, and reflected in values, connections
personal interests vision, and between
(in first personal interests philosophies and
assessment tool) (in first assessment tools
(7 points) assessment tool) (0-3 points)
(5 points)
Use of (14-20 points) (4-13 points) (0-3 points)
Assessment Detailed Completion of Little or no
Tools to completion of Assessment Tools completion of
Formulate Goals Assessment Tools Assessment Tools
(3-4 points)
(max 20 points) (5 points) (0-2 points)
Clearly-articulated List of at least four List of at least two
list of at least four prioritized goals goals
prioritized goals (3 points) (0-1 point)
based on
assessments
(5 points)
All goals stated in Some goals stated No goals stated in
measurable terms in measureable measurable terms
(5 points) terms (0 points)
(3 points)
Dates identified for Dates identified for No dates identified
accomplishing accomplishing (0 points)
each goal most goals
(5 points) (3 points)
Specific Identified specific Some strategies Vague or no
Strategies strategies for that are related to description of
(max 20 points) accomplishing pursuance of goals strategies
each goal (11-15 points total) (0-10 points)
(16-20 points total)
Priority of Goals Priority of each Goals are related Priorities are not
(max 20 points) goal consistent to values indicated and/or
with statements (11-15 points total) goals are not
of values clearly related to
values
(16-20 points total)
(0-10 points)
References At least three Two references Fewer than two
(max 10 points) references (4 points) references
(5 points) (0-2 points)
References Fewer than three Three or more APA
formatted correctly APA format errors format errors
(APA) (4 points) (0-2 points)
(5 points)
Format & Professional, error- Generally Error-laden APA
Organization free APA formats, acceptable APA formats, spelling,
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