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PRAC6665 PMHNP Care Across the Lifespan I Practicum

Week 11 Assignment

Journal Entry

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Critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your strengths and successes.

Use this Journal to reflect on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement, the progress you made, and what insights you will carry forward into your next practicum.

To Prepare

Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources, and consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.

Refer to your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.

Refer to your Patient Log in Meditrek, and consider the patient activities you have experienced in your practicum experience and reflect on your observations and experiences.

Journal Entry (450–500 words)

Learning From Experiences

Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.

Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?

What did you learn from this experience?

What resources were available?

What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?

What would you do differently?

How are you managing patient flow and volume?

How can you apply your growing skillset to be a social change agent within your community?

Communicating and Feedback

Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge, and communicate those efforts to your Preceptor.

Answer the questions: How am I doing? What is missing?

Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.

By Day 7 of Week 11

Submit your Journal.

Submission and Grading Information

To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:

Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK11Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.

Click the Week 11 Assignment Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.

Click the Week 11 Assignment link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for grading criteria from this area.

Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the document you saved as “WK11Assgn+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.

If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.

Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.