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Critical reflection on your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting helps you 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.

JOURNAL ENTRY

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Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

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TO PREPARE Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” 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 and 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 most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each? What did you learn from this experience? What resources were available? What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients? 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.

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Criteria Ratings Pts

50 pts

30 pts

15 pts

Assimilation and Synthesis: Content Reflection

50 to >44.0 pts Excellent

Reflection demonstrates a high level of critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or experiences. Insightful and relevant connections are made through contextual explanations and examples.

44 to >39.0 pts Good

Reflection demonstrates moderate level of critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or experiences. Connections are made through explanations and/or examples.

39 to >34.0 pts Fair

Reflection demonstrates minimal critical thinking in applying and integrating key course concepts and theories from readings, lectures, and/or experiences. Minimal connections made through explanations and/or examples.

34 to >0 pts Poor

Reflection lacks critical thinking. Superficial connections are made with key course concepts and resources, and/or assignments.

Assimilation and Synthesis: Personal Growth

30 to >26.0 pts Excellent 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.

26 to >23.0 pts Good 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.

23 to >20.0 pts Fair 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.

20 to >0 pts Poor 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

15 to >13.0 pts Excellent

Well written and clearly organized using standard English, characterized by elements of a strong writing style

13 to >11.0 pts Good

Above average writing style and logically organized using standard English with minor errors in grammar,

11 to >10.0 pts Fair

Average writing style that is sometimes unclear and/or with some errors in grammar,

10 to >0 pts Poor

Poor writing style lacking in standard English, clarity, language used, and/or frequent errors in

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Total Points: 100

Criteria Ratings Pts

5 pts

and basically free from grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling errors.

punctuation, usage, and spelling.

punctuation, usage, and spelling.

grammar, punctuation, usage, and spelling. Needs work.APA 5 to >4.0 pts

Excellent

Contains no APA errors.

4 to >3.5 pts Good

Contains one to two (1–2) APA errors.

3.5 to >2.0 pts Fair

Contains three to five (3–5) APA errors.

2 to >0 pts Poor

Contains more than five (>5) APA errors.

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