Stop 7 of 7 · Weekly
Rana's week and the career file
Three routines that survive a run of nights, a CE log that is ready at renewal, and the capstone: one teaching sheet and one handout through review.
The week, on a schedule
Nothing in this course survives a run of night shifts unless something else remembers it. Rana puts three routines on a schedule and lets the week carry itself.
| When | What runs | Where it lands |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday and Thursday evening | Study session on the weakest outline section | The miss log |
| Sunday morning | Guideline watch: her sources, then a sheet if she has read one | The teaching sheet queue |
| First of the month | Continuing education log from the certificates | The CE file |
The guideline watch is the one people build wrong, so it is worth spelling out. It does not go and find guidelines and tell Rana what changed. It hands her the list of societies and journals she decided to follow, asks which she has checked, and drafts nothing until she attaches a document she opened herself. Same rule as stop 3, made automatic.
Every Sunday at 08:00, run this. List the four sources I follow, which are [name your four societies or journals]. Ask me which of them I have checked since the last run and whether anything new was published. For any document I attach, produce the one page teaching sheet in my usual four blocks with a page number on every claim. Do not summarise or describe any guideline I have not attached, and do not tell me what is new from memory. Finish by asking what I want to check next week.
Here are this month's continuing education certificates: [attach the certificates]. Build one row per certificate for my log: date, activity title, provider and approval number, credit hours, and category. Total the hours for the year to date and tell me how many I still need for my renewal cycle, using the requirement in my notes file. Flag any certificate missing an approval number, because that is the one that gets rejected at renewal, and tell me who to contact for it while the course is still recent.
The career file
Rana keeps one plain file called wins. A line goes in the day something happens: the teaching sheet the unit adopted, the orientee who finished, the protocol that reached committee, what the rehab group's attendance did after she rebuilt the plan. It takes eight seconds and it is the only reason her resume is not fiction in March.
Here is my wins file for the last six months: [paste the wins file]. Turn the entries into resume bullets for a critical care respiratory therapist applying for a clinical specialist role. Each bullet says what I did, what changed because of it, and the number where my file has one. Use no number that is not in my file. Keep each under two lines. Then tell me which entries are too thin to use and what I would have to record next time to make them usable.
The portfolio is the same file with the evidence stapled on: the teaching sheet with its source line, the handout with its review trail, the committee memo with its open questions. Three documents with a paper trail behind them say more in an interview than any paragraph of adjectives.
The capstone
By Friday: one teaching sheet from a guideline you downloaded this week, and one patient handout from your own organisation's approved content. Both with their trail. Both sent to the person who signs them off, not posted and not printed. That is the whole course in two documents, and it is what the portfolio starts with.