WEEK 8 Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

WEEK 8 Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

 

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Assessment Description

Students are required to submit weekly reflective narratives throughout the course that will culminate in a final, course-long reflective journal due in Topic 10. The narratives help students integrate leadership and inquiry into current practice.

This reflection journal also allows students to outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses, and additional resources that could be introduced in a given situation to influence optimal outcomes. Each week students should also explain how they met a course competency or course objective(s).

In each week’s entry, students should reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout the course. Journal entries should address one or more of the areas stated below. In the Topic 10 graded submission, each of the areas below should be addressed as part of the summary submission.

1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

PICOT QUESTION

Do Alzheimer’s diagnosed patients older than 65 years participate in home-based fall risk precautions programs performing constant interventions to prevent falls(I) than those who do not adhere to these interventions (C) display more favorable results(O) in a year(T)?

 

 

REFERENCES MUST BE BETWEEN 2017-2022

PICOT QUESTION

RUBRIC

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Rubric

New Practice Approaches

Interprofessional Collaboration (C4.3)

Interprofessional collaboration information is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

Interprofessional Collaboration (C4.3)

Interprofessional collaboration information is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

Ethical Considerations In Health Care (C2.3)

 

Information regarding ethical considerations in health care is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

Unsatisfactory

Practice of Culturally Sensitive Care (C5.3)

Information regarding the practice of culturally sensitive care is present and complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader

 

Preservation of Integrity of Human Dignity in the Care of All Patients (C5.4)

Criteria Description

Preservation of Integrity of Human Dignity in the Care of All Patients (C5.4)

Information regarding the preservation of integrity and human dignity in the care of all patients is present and complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

 

Population Health Concerns

Criteria Description

Population Health Concerns

 

Information regarding population health concerns is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader

 

Unsatisfactory

Information regarding population health concerns is not present.

Role of Technology in Improving Health Care Outcomes (C4.1)

Criteria Description

Unsatisfactory

Information regarding population health concerns is not present.

Role of Technology in Improving Health Care Outcomes (C4.1)

Criteria Description

Leadership and Economic Models

Criteria Description

Leadership and Economic Models

 

Information on leadership and economic models is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

Health Disparities

Criteria Description

Health Disparities

 

Information on health disparities is present, complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

 

Outline of Overall Personal Discovery

Criteria Description

Outline of Overall Personal Discovery

 

Outline of what student discovered about professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and how the student met the competencies aligned to this course is present and complete, and incorporates additional relevant details and critical thinking to engage the reader.

 

Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

Criteria Description

Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

 

Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

 

RESSOURCES

Searching for Ethical Leadership in Nursing

Review “Searching for Ethical Leadership in Nursing,” by Marakoff et al., from Nursing Ethics(2014).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0969733013513213

 

Leadership for Evidence-Based Practice: Strategic and Functional Behaviors for Institutionalizing EBP

Review “Leadership for Evidence-Based Practice: Strategic and Functional Behaviors for Institutionalizing EBP,” by Stetler, Ritch

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https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103991765&site=eds-live&scope=site

 

A Successful Approach to Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Review “A Successful Approach to Implementing Evidence-Based Practice,” by Giomuso et al., from Med-Surg Matters (2014).

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Back to Basics: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice

Review “Back to Basics: Implementing Evidence-Based Practice,” by Spruce, from AORN Journal (2015).

https://lopes.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=103866426&site=eds-live&scope=site

 

The Establishment of Evidence-Based Practice Competencies for Practicing Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses in Real-World Clinical Settings

Review “The Establishment of Evidence-Based Practice Competencies for Practicing Registered Nurses and Advanced Practice Nurses in Re

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