FINAL EVALUATION

Hannah Ridinger
NURS 478/479

Direct Patient Care Leadership

Strengths:
Careful listener
Calm demeanor
Experience in Womens
Care
Weaknesses:
People pleasing
Lacks confidence in
delegation

Short-term Goals:
Develop a set organizational strategy
for coming onto shift to improve time
management
Increased confidence in delegation
through experience

Long term Goals:

Subscribe to nursing journals specific to
area of care to stay up to date on
evidence based practice
Improve leadership skills as democratic
leader to progress as charge nurse

Unit Related Leadership

Strengths:
Team player
Interest in evidence
based practice
Weaknesses:
Time management on
unit
Experience
communicating with
providers

Short term goals:

Serve on Quality Improvement
Committees
Participate in unit related
research
Develop confidence in
communicating with providers
Long term goals:
Successfully preceptor a
student with confidence and
wisdom

Professional Nursing Development:

Organizations, Journals/Certifications
Short term :
Receive ACLS certification
Subscribe to maternal/infant journals
Long term:
Lead committees on quality improvement
Submit research proposals to nursing journals based on unit
observations
Remain up to date on evidence based practice

 Addresses people pleasing as a disease

(one of my weaknesses)
Self-Assessment quizzes
Teaches how to say no and importance of setting
boundaries
A people pleaser is very aware of both the explicit
and implicit demands of others but must realize
that resources are finite. You cannot delegate
effectively if you put yourself last (Braiker, 2001).

Leadership
Shadowing

Strengths:
Allowed me the opportunity to view the
role of the charge nurse on the
Womens Care unit
The nurse I shadowed was very
experienced and would make an
excellent future mentor
Demonstrated a Democratic leadership
model
Weaknesses:
The Charge nurses on this unit were given
full patient assignments and were not
always serving in the charge nurse role

Professional
Activity

Strengths:
NRP taught me the necessary
knowledge to resuscitate a neonate if
complications after birth occur.
This activity is specific to my interest in
the neonatal population
Reminded me of my passion for this
vulnerable population
Weaknesses:
The hands on part of this class was not
as long as I would have liked it to be.
Most of the content was on the online
portion.

Continuing Education

Personal Aspirations:
Begin Career in Post-Partum
unit in Phoenix area.
Build confidence and gain
experience that will make me
a valuable asset to any unit!

Short term (2 yrs) :

Confidence in clinical skills
Mother/Baby unit

Long term (3-5 yrs):

Charge nurse/Mentor
Advanced Skills
Proficiency
Advance to Neonatal ICU

Time Line
May 12th,
Graduation

First 8 wks
Progress in skills
and knowledge
with preceptor

Year 1: Night
shift

May 16th ,
Kaplan course

August 2016
Begin new grad
orientation

Progress in skills
to Day shift

June-July
NCLEX

May August,
Interviews

Year 2-4
Charge RN

References
Braiker, H. B. (2001). The disease to please: Curing the people-pleasing syndrome.
New York: McGraw-Hill.