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Practicum Experience-Journal Entry
QUESTION
As a future advanced practice nurse, it is important that you are able to connect your classroom experience to your Practicum Experience. By applying the concepts that you study in the classroom to clinical settings, you enhance your professional competency. Each week, you will reflect on your Practicum Experiences and relate them to the material presented in the classroom. This week, you begin your Practicum Experiences and will write your first Practicum Journal.
To prepare for this course’s Practicum Experience, address the following in your first Practicum Journal:
• Select and describe a nursing theory to guide your practice.
• Develop goals and objectives for your Practicum Experience in this course. When developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep the seven domains of practice in mind.
• Create a timeline of practicum activities based on your practicum requirements.
In a one-page journal entry (250-300 words), you should do the following:
• Describe your practicum goals and objectives using the seven domains of practice
• Discuss a nursing theory that would be used to guide your practice.
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Answer
Nursing practice is guided by concepts and domains on medical knowledge. It is imperative for every nursing practitioner to first understand these concepts before their application. In addition, developing core goals and competencies is vital in promoting one’s professionalism in providing profound services.
My core goals and objectives are based on acquiring more knowledge to manage various illnesses, enhancing interpersonal skills to interact with the patient, and improving my professional role. Also, I aim at enhancing my research and management skills to develop profound delivery systems and improving healthcare quality and safety (Shen, 2015). In advanced nursing practice, there are three core aspects of research, change, and leadership. In line with these elements, my prime goal is to enhance my research skills to evaluate the current healthcare challenges and develop evidence-based practices to address these issues. To develop my leadership skills, other competencies are imperative such as cultural, interpersonal, communication, decision making, and critical thinking. As espoused by Fleiszer et al. (2016), developing evidence-based practices is aimed at enhancing patient quality and safety outcome. In leadership and change, I aim at participating in seminars, legislative policymaking, and advocacy activities to understand the current research findings and propose policy development to enhance quality nursing practice.
The most profound nursing theory that guides my nursing practice is self-care by Dorothea Orem. This theory postulates that people should be responsible and self-reliant to provide their care and that of their social environment such as family (Younas, 2017). According to this theory, nursing entails the interaction between the caregiver and receiver to develop effective healthcare management strategies. The application of this theory in my practice is to understand one’s health conditions and develop effective interventions to address the patient as a whole.
References
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Fleiszer, A. R., Semenic, S. E., Ritchie, J. A., Richer, M. C., & Denis, J. L. (2016). Nursing unit leaders' influence on the long‐term sustainability of evidence‐based practice improvements. Journal of nursing management, 24(3), 309-318. Shen, Z. (2015). Cultural competence models and cultural competence assessment instruments in nursing: a literature review. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 26(3), 308-321. Younas, A. (2017). A foundational analysis of Dorothea Orem's self-care theory and evaluation of its significance for nursing practice and research. Creative nursing, 23(1), 13-23.
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