Week 2: Practicum Experience Plan
What do I have to do? When do I have to do it?
Review your Learning Resources.
Days 1–7
Reminder: Orientation Communication
Complete your orientation email by Day 7.
Assignment 1: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs
Record your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.
Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)
Submit Assignment 2 by Day 7.
When setting sharp, clearly defined goals and objectives, you focus on what you wish to accomplish and how and when you will get there. Based on your assessment of your strengths and opportunities related to psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) clinical skills, you can develop goals and objectives for your clinical practicum that can guide your activities. What are some steps you can take on the way to a larger goal? How might you gain confidence in a clinical skill or seek out more opportunities to practice? What external activities might boost your professionalism or enhance your skill set? As you settle in at your practicum site, keep these questions in mind.
This week, you continue engaging with patients at your practicum site, recording your time and experiences in your Clinical Hour and Patient Logs. You will also develop a Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) made up of goals and objectives designed to formally identify specific categories of clinical skills and procedures you wish to achieve during your practicum experience. Finally, through this week’s reading selections, you can deepen your understanding of the psychiatric interview.
Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Describe clinical hours and patient encounters
- Develop a Practicum Experience Plan
- Create a timeline of practicum activities based on your practicum requirements
Learning Resources
Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)
Reminder: Orientation Communication
By Day 7
Complete your orientation email and send to your faculty and preceptor. Attach your clinical schedule calendar developed in Week 1 in your email. Include a summary of your goals and objectives for this practicum experience.
Assignment 1: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs
Each log entry must be linked with an individual practicum learning objective or a graduate program objective. You should track your hours in Meditrek as they are completed.
Your clinical hour log must include the following:
- Dates
- Course
- Clinical Faculty
- Preceptor
- Total Time (for the day)
- Notes/Comments–including the objective to which the log entry is aligned
Patient Log
Throughout this course, you will also keep a log of patient encounters using Meditrek. You must record at least 80 patients by the end of this practicum.
The patient log must include the following:
- Date
- Course
- Clinical Faculty
- Preceptor
- Patient Number
- Client Information
- Visit Information
- Practice Management
- Diagnosis
- Student Notes- Students must include a brief summary/synopsis of the patient visit—this does not need to be a SOAP note; however, the note needs to be sufficient to remember your patient encounter
Record your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.
Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)
For this Assignment, you will consider the areas you aim to focus on to gain practical experience as an advanced practice nurse. Then, you will develop a Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) containing the objectives you will fulfill in order to achieve your aims. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep psychiatric assessment and diagnostic reasoning in mind.
To Prepare
- Review your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted last week and think about areas for which you would like to gain application-level experience and/or continued growth as an advanced practice nurse. How can your experiences in the Practicum help you achieve these aims?
- 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 Practicum Experience Plan (PEP).
- Discuss your professional aims and your proposed practicum objectives with your 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 template, including three to four (3–4) practicum learning objectives you will use to facilitate your learning during the practicum experience.
By Day 7
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.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK2Assgn2+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Week 2 Assignment 2 Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the Assignment.
- Click the Week 2 Assignment 2 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 “WK2Assgn2+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 2 Assignment 2 Rubric
Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 2 Assignment 2 draft and review the originality report.
Submit Your Assignment by Day 7
To participate in this Assignment:
Week 2 Assignment
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