SWOT Analysis

Semester 1 SWOT:

• Strengths:

  • • Active

    • Asks great questions

    • Willing to gain more learning opportunities

    • Taking Accu-Checks

    • Ambulating Patients

    • Patient Safety

    • Therapeutic Conversation

    • Giving Bed Baths

• Weaknesses:

  • • Nervous with New Skills

    • Inability to get exposure to certain newly-learned skills: foleys, dressing changes

• Opportunities for Improvement:

  • • Getting the chance to try new skills that I have been checked off on

    • More chances to do my own assessments without the nurse

• Threats to Learning: 

  • • Interruptions with paperwork

    • Nurses who aren't willing to teach/help

    • Distractions on the floor

Semester 2 SWOT:

• Strengths:

  • • Proactive

    • Therapeutic

    • Great at understanding difficult-to-understand patients

    • Awesome at Sub-Cutaneous Injections

    • Awesome at Intramuscular Injections

    • Knowledgeable about Medications

    • Succeeded with Med-Pass

    • Thorough

    • Careful and precise

    • Patient safety

    • Professional

• Weaknesses:

  • • Nervous with New Skills

    • Inability to Practice Certain Learned Skills: foleys, IVs, hanging IV meds, insertion of NG tubes, IV pumps

• Opportunities for Improvement:

  • • Exposure to New Skills learning opportunities

    • Exposure to different floors, different patient, and different medications

    • Opportunity to go into the OR, ER, and critical care settings

• Threats to Learning:

  • • Distractions

    • Paperwork on the floor

Semester 3 SWOT:

• Strengths:

  • • Very Proactive

    • Professional

    • SubQ Injections

    • IM Injections

    • IV Starts

    • Male Foley Insertion

    • Phlebotomy

    • Administering Medications

    • PEG Tube and Meds

    • Starting IV Meds

    • Knowledgeable about Medications

    • Very Thorough

    • Organized

    • Great at taking and giving report

    • Paperwork

    • Notifying Lab about Missing Meds

• Weaknesses:

  • • Lab Interpretation

    • Delegation

• Opportunities for Improvement:

  • • Opportunities to Chart more assessments

    • More IV med start opportunities

    • More dressing change opportunities

    • More IV start opportunities

• Threats to Learning:

  • • Distractions

    • Nurses who aren't willing to share patients

Semester 4 SWOT:

• Strengths:

  • • Very Proactive

    • Professional

    • Very Thorough

    • Organized

    • Newborn assessment

    • Post-Partum assessment

    • Family interaction

    • Breast-feeding instruction

• Weaknesses:

  • • Lab Interpretation

    • Delegation

    • Labor and delivery Oxytocin administration procedures

• Opportunities for Improvement:

  • • Opportunities to Chart more assessments

    • More IV med start opportunities

    • More dressing change opportunities

    • More IV start opportunities

    • Opportunity to learn pediatric med pumps

• Threats to Learning:

  • • Distractions

    • Nurses who aren't willing to share patients

Semester 5 SWOT:

• Strengths:

  • • Pediatric cardiac defect assessment skills

    • Understanding of differences between the pediatric cardiac defects

    • Working of the pediatric medication pumps

    • Art line, Broviac understanding

    • Somanetics proficiency

    • ICU vitals on time

    • Patient teaching about cardiac defects in their children

    • Very Proactive

    • Professional

    • Knowledgeable about Medications

    • Very Thorough

    • Organized

    • Great at taking and giving report

    • Cerner ICU documentation

    • Notifying Lab about Missing Meds

• Weaknesses:

  • • Lab Interpretation

    • Delegation

• Opportunities for Improvement:

  • • IV med start opportunities

    • More dressing change opportunities

    • Medication administration

    • Access to Pyxis for patient care items

    • To be a part of a pediatric CVICU code experience

• Threats to Learning:

  • • Distractions