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Alysia Brillhart reflects on her growth throughout her nursing program. She identifies two key weaknesses - managing her time effectively and gaining experience with nursing skills like starting IVs. For time management, she discusses learning to prioritize tasks and delegate work. She feels more comfortable caring for multiple patients after clinical experiences. For skills, she wants more practice with tasks like IV insertion to build confidence. Overall, she is pleased with her development and feels prepared for her career as a nurse thanks to her program.

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Development Plan

Alysia Brillhart reflects on her growth throughout her nursing program. She identifies two key weaknesses - managing her time effectively and gaining experience with nursing skills like starting IVs. For time management, she discusses learning to prioritize tasks and delegate work. She feels more comfortable caring for multiple patients after clinical experiences. For skills, she wants more practice with tasks like IV insertion to build confidence. Overall, she is pleased with her development and feels prepared for her career as a nurse thanks to her program.

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Development Plan

Alysia Brillhart

While I was reading through the reflective summaries I have written throughout this

program, I was able to identify some strengths and weaknesses I have went through during this

nursing program. Overall, I am pleased with myself for having so much growth over these last

few years of nursing school both as an individual and as a future nurse. I will most definitely

work on the weaknesses that I feel that I have so that I can continue to grow into the best nurse

that I can possibly be.

One weakness that I feel that I have experienced is learning to manage my time. I

remember my very first clinical and feeling overwhelmed taking care of one patient. I

remember I had a hard time knowing when to do my assessments, when to pass medications,

when to take a blood sugar, when to take vital signs, etc. I also had a hard time managing my

time wisely so that I wouldn’t get behind on charting. However, now that I have officially

completed my clinicals and precepting, I feel that I have grown a lot with learning how to

manage my time effectively. I was able to care for up to three patients during precepting. While

caring for three patients, I had to do assessments on all three of them 2-3 times during the

shift, pass medications on all of them, assist them with ADL’s, etc. I was able to adapt to caring

for three patients and manage my time effectively throughout precepting. As a nurse, I will

continue to manage my time wisely by prioritizing patient care at the beginning of my shift and

re-evaluating prioritization as the shift goes on. I have also learned that it helps to chart while

you perform tasks with patients or at least writing times down and tasks that I did, so that

charting isn’t being brushed off until the end of the shift. In addition, I learned that it is ok to

delegate tasks to other people if I am feeling overwhelmed with all of the tasks that I need to
complete to help manage time as well. I feel that developing time management skills can go

along with ASN Student Learning Outcome 2, 5 and 6. I can incorporate outcome 2 and 5

because if you use an interdisciplinary approach and communication, such as delegating tasks

and working together, this can help manage time. I can integrate outcome 6 because time

management impacts the care that I provide to all of my patients. If I really lacked the ability to

manage my time, then I probably couldn’t say for sure that I was demonstrating caring, safe

and competent care to all of my patients. Overall, I feel that time management is a task that

you continuously work on and continue to develop with the more experience you get as a

nurse, so I think the strategies I mentioned will be a good way to help keep me on track with

my time management skills.

Another weakness that I can identify is that I really didn’t have a whole lot of experience

to utilize some of the skills that I learned in nursing school. For example, I had the opportunity

to attempt to start an IV, but I wish I could have had more experiences to become more

confident in that skills. This weakness can also go along with ASN Student Learning Outcome 6. I

am sure as a nurse I will have plenty of experiences to insert IV’s and I feel that the more IV’s I

am able to attempt to insert, the more comfortable I will become.

Overall, I feel that any nursing skill will become easier the more you perform the skill, so

I will definitely continue to expand my knowledge on the skills and attitudes that I have learned

from this program. The skills and attitudes I have learned so far will help me continue to

become a compassionate, knowledgeable nurse that provides safe, effective care to all of my

future patients. I definitely feel that Aultman College has done a great job with preparing me

for my future as a nurse.

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