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 individualized and outlined in your Practicum Experience Plan (PEP). While you may add previous objectives to continue to work toward. You must have 3 new objectives for each class, each quarter.
Discuss your professional aims and your proposed practicum objectives with your Preceptor to ascertain if the necessary resources are available at your practicum site.
Select one nursing theory and one counseling/psychotherapy theory to best guide your clinical practice. Explain why you selected these theories. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
Create a timeline of practicum activities that demonstrates how you plan to meet these goals and objectives based on your practicum requirements.
THE main Assignment
POST : Record the required information in each area of the Practicum Experience Plan template, including 3–4 measurable practicum learning objectives you will use to facilitate your learning during the practicum experience.
LEARNING Resources
Carlat, D. J. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.For review as needed:
“Section I. General Principles of Effective Interviewing” (Chapters 1–13)
“Section III. Interviewing for Diagnosis: The Psychiatric Review of Symptoms” (Chapters 19–22) Appendixes A–C
MeditrekLinks to an external site.
https://edu.meditrek.com/Default.html
Note: Use this website to log into Meditrek to report your clinical hours and patient encounters.
Links to an external site.
Walden University Academic Skills Center. (2017). Developing SMART goalsLinks to an external site..
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=51901492
Complete this schedule.
Part 2: Individualized Practicum Learning Objectives
Refer to the instructions in Week 2 to create individualized practicum learning objectives
that meet the requirements for this course. These objectives should be aligned specifically
to your Practicum experience. Your objectives should address your self-assessment of the
skills found in the “PMHNP Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form” you completed in Week 1.
As you develop your individualized practicum learning objective, be sure to write them using the SMART format. Use the resources found to guide your development.
Once you review your resources, continue, and complete the following. Note: Please make sure each of your objectives are connected to your self-assessment. Also, consider that you will need to demonstrate how you are advancing your knowledge in the clinical specialty.
YOU MUST HAVE 3 NEW OBJECTIVES EACH QUARTER. You may include previous practicum objectives; however, you still must have 3 new objectives for your current course.
Objective 1:
Planned Activities:
Mode of Assessment: (Note: Verification will be documented )
PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed:
(for example) Develop professional plans in advanced nursing practice for the practicum experience
(for example) Assess advanced practice nursing skills for strengths and
opportunities
Objective 2:
Planned Activities:
Mode of Assessment: (Note: Verification will be documented)
PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed:
Objective 3:
Planned Activities:
Mode of Assessment: (Note: Verification will be documented )
PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed: