PRAC 6635 WEEK 11: Journal Entry Assignment

PRAC 6635 WEEK 11: Journal Entry Assignment

PRAC 6635 WEEK 11: Journal Entry Assignment

Week 11: Journal

What do I have to do? When do I have to do it?

Review your Learning Resources.
Days 1–7

Retrieve your Patient Log
Log into Meditrek and print out your Patient Log for this quarter.
Assignment: Journal Entry

Submit your Journal by Day 7.

Welcome to the last week of your practicum! As you have proceeded through the practicum experience, you have been regularly challenged to reflect on your growth and development as you made progress on your goals. Additionally, you have been evaluated and gained feedback from your Preceptor. As you end this practicum, consider what you have gained from the experiences in your practicum setting. Did you meet your goals and objectives? What were the challenges and how did you manage them? What were the successes and what lessons can you take from those experiences and apply to future experiences? Use your reflections to seek opportunities for growth in the areas you found challenging, while simultaneously celebrating your successes.

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This week, your complete a reflective Journal Entry on your practicum experience. Additionally, you must log in to Meditrek and download and print out your Patient Log. This serves as a log to provide to healthcare organizations when requested.
Learning Objectives

Students will:

Assess clinical skills related to advanced psychiatric mental health nursing practice
Assess goals and objectives for the practicum experience

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

HSoftorporation. (2020). Meditrek: Home. https://edu.meditrek.com/Default.html

Note: Use this website to log into Meditrek to report your clinical hours and patient encounters.

Walden University. (2020). College of Nursing practicum manual: Master of science in nursing (MSN) and post-master’s certificate programs. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/formsanddocuments

Walden University Field Experience. (2020a). Field experience: College of Nursing. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home

Walden University Field Experience. (2020b). Student practicum resources: NP student orientation. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/StudentPracticum/NP_StudentOrientation

Reminder: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

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This week, your preceptor must sign off on your clinical hour log in Meditrek. Contact your preceptor if you do not see this approval.

Additionally, be sure to log in to a Meditre at some point during the week and print out your Patient Log for this quarter. You will need to keep this log and provide it healthcare organizations when requested, in order to secure privileges. It serves as a record of the patients you have seen.

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 “Advanced Nursing Practice Competencies and Guidelines” 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. Reflect on your observations and experiences.

In 450–500 words, address the following:

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 did you have available?
What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
What new skills are you learning?
What would you do differently?
How are you managing patient flow and volume?

Communicating and Feedback

Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge and how to 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

Submit your Journal Entry.
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.

Grading Criteria

To access your rubric:

Week 11 Assignment Rubric

Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity

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Submit your Week 11 Assignment draft and review the originality report.

Submit Your Assignment by Day 7

To participate in this Assignment:

Week 11 Assignment

Practicum in Review

Congratulations on completing PRAC 6635: Psychopathology and Diagnostic Reasoning Practicum! Over the course of the practicum, you honed your assessment, communication, documentation, and diagnostic reasoning skills within a clinical setting. You also assessed your clinical strengths and opportunities and worked toward improvement in identified areas. In so doing, you are better prepared for the clinical challenges of advanced practice nursing.

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Rubric Detail

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Assimilation and Synthesis: Content Reflection
Points Range: 50 (50%) – 50 (50%)
Reflection demonstrates a high level of critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or Discussions. Insightful and relevant connections are made through contextual explanations and examples.

Points Range: 40 (40%) – 49 (49%)
Reflection demonstrates moderate level of critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or Discussions. Connections are made through explanations and/or examples.

Points Range: 31 (31%) – 39 (39%)
Reflection demonstrates minimal critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or Discussions. Minimal connections made through explanations and/or examples.

Points Range: 0 (0%) – 30 (30%)
Reflection lacks critical thinking. Superficial connections are made with key course concepts and resources, and/or assignments
Assimilation and Synthesis: Personal Growth
Points Range: 30 (30%) – 30 (30%)
Expresses solid evidence of reflection on own work. Demonstrates substantial personal growth and awareness of deeper meaning through inferences, well developed insights, and significant depth in awareness and challenges. Synthesizes current experience into future implications.

Points Range: 20 (20%) – 29 (29%)
Expresses moderate evidence of reflection on own work. Demonstrates satisfactory personal growth and awareness through some inferences, insights, and challenges. There is mention of the future implications of student’s current experience.

Points Range: 10 (10%) – 19 (19%)
Expresses minimal evidence of reflection on own work. Demonstrates less than adequate personal growth and awareness through limited or simplistic inferences made, insights, and/or challenges that are not well developed. Minimal thought of future implications of student’s current experience.

Points Range: 0 (0%) – 9 (9%)
Expresses inadequate evidence of reflection on own work. Personal growth and awareness are not evident and/or demonstrate an impersonal experience. Lacks personal insights, challenges, inferences, and/or future implications are overlooked.
Written Expression and Formatting
Points Range: 15 (15%) – 15 (15%)
Well written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by elements of a strong writing style and basically free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.

Points Range: 11 (11%) – 14 (14%)
Above average writing style and logically organized using standard English with minor errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.

Points Range: 6 (6%) – 10 (10%)
Average writing style that is sometimes unclear and/or with some errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling.

Points Range: 0 (0%) – 5 (5%)
Poor writing style lacking in standard English, clarity, language used, and/or frequent errors in grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Needs work.
APA
Points Range: 5 (5%) – 5 (5%)
No APA errors

Points Range: 4 (4%) – 4 (4%)
Contains one to two (1–2) APA errors

Points Range: 2 (2%) – 3 (3%)
Contains three to five (3–5) APA errors

Points Range: 0 (0%) – 1 (1%)
Contains more than five (> 5) APA errors
Total Points: 100
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