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PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 2 Assignment  

An effective practicum experience should remain focused on goals, even when the experiences are diverse. These goals should be tailored to your desired professional and learning outcomes, as well as the various needs of populations you may serve. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep women’s health guidelines and best practices in mind.

For this Assignment, you will consider areas for which you would like to gain application-level experience and growth and develop 3-4 practicum learning objectives you will use to facilitate your learning during the practicum experience.

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To prepare:

Review your FNP or AGPCNP Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment document from the previous Assignment in this week and think about areas for which you would like to gain application-level experience and/or continued growth as a nurse educator. How can your experiences in the practicum help you achieve these aims?? This is your opportunity to refine and finalize your goals and objectives for your practicum experience.

Review the information related to developing objectives provided in this week’s Learning Resources.?Your practicum?learning objectives that you want to achieve during your practicum experience must be:

Specific?

Measurable?

Attainable?

Results focused?

Time bound

Reflective of the higher order domains of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., Application level and above)?

Note: Please make sure your objectives are outlined in your Professional Experience Plan (PEP).?

Discuss your professional aims and your proposed?Practicum?Objectives with your Practicum Preceptor to ascertain if the necessary resources are available at your Practicum site.?

?Assignment:?

Record the required information in each area of the Practicum Experience Plan, including 3-4 practicum learning?objectives you will use to facilitate your?learning?during the practicum?experience.? 

No Assignment submission required for this week.?

By Day 7 of Week 2

Submit?the?Practicum Experience Plan for?assessment?and?faculty?approval.

When your Instructor has approved your plan, forward the signed PEP to your Preceptor and retain a copy for your records.

 

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 3 Assignment  

Episodic Visit: Gynecology Focused Note

Patient histories are a building block of the diagnosis and treatment. By effectively interviewing patients in their care, advanced practice nurses can piece together facts to construct a relevant history that can lead to assessment and treatment.

For this Focused Note Assignment, you will select a patient with gynecologic conditions from your clinical experience and construct a patient history, assess and diagnose the patient’s health condition(s), and justify the best treatment option(s) for the patient.

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Note: All Focused Notes must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your preceptor. When you submit your Focused Notes, you should include the complete Focused Note as a Word document and pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor. You must submit your Focused Notes using SAFE ASSIGN.

Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.

To prepare:

Use the Focused SOAP Note Template found in the Learning Resources for this week to complete this Assignment.

Select a patient that you examined during the last three weeks. With this patient in mind, address the following in your Focused Note Template.

Assignment

Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding her personal and medical history?

Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment?

Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?

Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.

Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

Note: Your Focused Note Assignment must be signed by Day 7 of Week 3.

By Day 7

Submit your Focused Note Assignment. (Note: You will submit two files, your Focused Note Assignment, and a Word document of pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor by Day 7 of Week 3.)

 

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 5 Assignment  

Journal Entry #1

On any given day, a nurse can play a pivotal role in someone’s life. Experienced nurses often share stories of previous experiences and draw upon these experiences when circumstances warrant.

Hence, reflection can be a valuable tool. It serves as a tool for not only recalling experiences but also for applying lessons learned from those experiences. Keeping a nursing journal provides these benefits and more.

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To prepare:

Refer to the current Clinical Guidelines found in this week’s Learning Resources and consider how these guidelines inform your clinical experience.

Refer to your FNP or AGPCNP Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider how your self-assessment might inform your Assignment.

Refer to your Patient Log in Meditrek and reflect on Weeks 1–5 of your clinical experience. Consider your observations and experiences with patients during this time.

Journal Entry #1 (450–500 words):

In your journal entry, answer the following questions:

Learning from Experiences

Reflect on the 3 most challenging patient encounters and discuss what was most challenging for each.

What did you learn from this experience?

What resources did you have available?

What evidence-based practice did you use for this patient?

What new skills are you learning?

What would you do differently?

How are you managing patient flow and volume?

Communicating and Feedback

Respond to the following reflective questions:

How might I improve on my skills and knowledge, and how to communicate that back to my Preceptor?

How am I doing? What is missing?

What type of feedback am I receiving from my Preceptor?

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 7 Assignment  

For AGPCNP Students Episodic Visit: Common Gynecologic Health Conditions Focused Note For FNP Students OB Episodic Visit: Focused Note

Patient histories are a building block of the diagnosis and treatment. By effectively interviewing patients in their care, advanced practice nurses can piece together facts to construct a relevant history that can lead to assessment and treatment.

For this Focused Note Assignment, you will select a patient with common gynecologic health conditions from your clinical experience and construct a patient history, assess and diagnose the patient’s health condition(s), and justify the best treatment option(s) for the patient.

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Note: All Focused Notes must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your preceptor. When you submit your Focused Notes, you should include the complete Focused Note as a Word document and pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor. You must submit your Focused Notes using SAFE ASSIGN.

Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.

To prepare:

Use the Focused SOAP Note Template found in this week’s Learning Resources to complete this Assignment.

For AGPCNP students select a patient with common gynecologic health conditions whom you examined during the last three weeks in your practicum experience. For FNP students select a OB patient that you have examined in the last three weeks in your practicum experience. With this patient in mind, address the following in your Focused Note Template:

Assignment:

Subjective: What details did the patient provide regarding her personal and medical history?

Objective: What observations did you make during the physical assessment?

Assessment: What were your differential diagnoses? Provide a minimum of three possible diagnoses. List them from highest priority to lowest priority. What was your primary diagnosis and why?

Plan: What was your plan for diagnostics and primary diagnosis? What was your plan for treatment and management, including alternative therapies? Include pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic treatments, alternative therapies, and follow-up parameters, as well as a rationale for this treatment and management plan.

Reflection notes: What would you do differently in a similar patient evaluation?

Note: Your Focused Note Assignment must be signed by Day 7 of Week 7.

By Day 7

Submit your Focused Note Assignment. (Note: You will submit two files, your Focused Note Assignment, and a Word document of pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor by Day 7 of Week 7.)

 

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 10 Assignment  

Comprehensive Well-Woman Exam

For a wide variety of medical conditions, early detection of the problem enables timely and more effective treatment. Annual well-woman exams are among the best tools available for health care professionals to identify potential diseases and medical conditions in women. 

Advanced nurse practitioners can play an active role in these important visits. This role can include a physical examination as well as collection of details about such factors as nutrition habits, sexual activity, stress, and more. By participating in comprehensive well-woman exams, advanced nurse practitioners can help patients engage in preventative health.

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For this Assignment, you will complete your well-woman exam using a focused note format in which you will gather patient information, relevant diagnostic and treatment information and reflect on health promotion and disease prevention in light of patient factors, such as age, ethnic group, past medical history (PMH), socio-economic status, cultural background, etc.

Note: All Focused Notes must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your preceptor. When you submit your Focused Notes, you should include the complete Focused Note as a Word document and pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your preceptor. You must submit your Focused Notes using SAFE ASSIGN.

Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, faculty will deduct points per the Walden Late Policies.

To prepare:

Reflect on your practicum experience and select a female patient whom you have examined with the support and guidance of your Preceptor.

Think about the details of the patient’s background, medical history, physical exam, labs and diagnostics, diagnosis, and treatment and management plan, and education strategies and follow-up care.

What additional considerations might you think about if your patient was pregnant or just delivered?

Use the “Guidelines for Comprehensive History and Physical SOAP Note” document found in this week’s Learning Resources to guide you as you complete this Assignment.

Assignment:

Write an 8- to 10-page Comprehensive Well-Woman Exam that addresses the following:

 

Age, race and ethnicity, and partner status of the patient

Current health status, including chief concern or complaint of the patient

Contraception method (if any)

Patient history, including medical history, family medical history, gynecologic history, obstetric history, and personal social history (as appropriate to current problem)

Review of systems

Physical exam

Labs, tests, and other diagnostics

Differential diagnoses

Management plan, including diagnosis, treatment, patient education, and follow-up care

Provide evidence-based guidelines to support treatment plan. Note: Use your Learning Resources and evidence from scholarly sources from your personal search to support your treatment plan of care.

Reflection

Reflect on some additional factors for your patient:

What are the implications if your patient was pregnant or just delivered?

What are implications if you have observed or know of some domestic violence? Would this change your plan of care? If so, how?

Use your Learning Resources and evidence from scholarly sources from your personal search to support your reflection.

 

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 10 Assignment 2

Final Clinical Evaluation

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Hopefully, at this point in the practicum, your confidence level in performing procedures and demonstrating clinical skills has risen. In preparation for your Final Evaluation, you may wish to review your printed-out Clinical Skills List and revisit the goals and objectives you established in Weeks 1 and 2. Remember that as an advanced practice nurse, you welcome evaluation and supportive feedback as growth opportunities.

For this Assignment, your Preceptor will assess your clinical skills in a Final Evaluation.

Following your Final Evaluation, your Clinical Faculty and Preceptor will meet privately with you to discuss your results and feedback. Once you receive your feedback, compare your Preceptor’s evaluation with your self-evaluation to better understand your clinical performance.

Clinical Evaluation Grades

Your clinical instructor will complete an evaluation with feedback from your preceptor and evaluation of your work.    Meditrek calculates an average score which will be used to determine the score that will be entered into Blackboard for your evaluation grade. 

Students must demonstrate achievement of the clinical learning outcomes for the course by achieving a minimum score of 3 (meets requirements) on all criteria on the final evaluation. Scores of less than 3 on any criteria can lead to course failure or the implementation of a clinical performance improvement plan.

By Day 7

Your evaluation should be completed by your Preceptor.

 

PRAC-6552C/PRAC-6552F/PRAC-6552

PRAC6552 Advanced Nurse Practice in Reproductive Health Care Practicum

Week 11 Assignment  

Journal Entry #2

On any given day, a nurse can play a pivotal role in someone’s life. Experienced nurses often share stories of previous experiences and draw upon these experiences when circumstances warrant.

Hence, reflection can be a valuable tool. It serves as a tool for not only recalling experiences but also for applying lessons learned from those experiences. Keeping a nursing journal provides these benefits and more.

Photo Credit: [Photography by Angela - TGTG]/[Moment]/Getty Images

To prepare:

Refer to the current Clinical Guidelines found in this week’s Learning Resources and consider how these guidelines inform your clinical experience.

Refer to your FNP or AGPCNP Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider how your self-assessment might inform your Assignment.

Refer to your Patient Log in Meditrek and reflect on Weeks 6–10 of your clinical experience, and reflect on your observations and experiences with patients during this time.

Journal Entry #2 (450–500 words):

In your journal entry, answer the following questions:

Learning and Experiences

Reflect on the 3 most challenging patient encounters and discuss what was most challenging for each.

What did you learn from this experience?

What resources did you have available?

What evidence-based practice did you use for this patient?

What new skills are you learning?

What would you do differently?

How are you managing patient flow and volume?

Communicating and Feedback

Ask yourself the following self-reflective questions:

How might I improve on my skills and knowledge, and how do I communicate that back to my Preceptor?

How am I doing? What is missing?

What type of feedback am I receiving from my Preceptor?

By Day 7

Submit your Journal Entry #2 Assignment.