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Week 1: Assignment below
 

Practicum Journal Entry: You will select one nursing theory and one counseling theory to best guide your practice in psychotherapy. You will explain why you selected these theories and support your approach with evidence-based literature. You also will develop at least three goals and at least three objectives for the practicum experience in this course. 

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 you study in the classroom to clinical settings, you enhance your professional competency. Each week, you complete an Assignment that prompts you to reflect on your practicum experiences and relate them to the material presented in the classroom. This week, you begin documenting your practicum experiences in your Practicum Journal.

Learning Objectives

Students will:

• Analyze nursing and counseling theories to guide practice in psychotherapy*
• Develop goals and objectives for personal practicum experiences*
• Create timelines for practicum activities*

* The Assignment related to this Learning Objective is introduced this week and submitted in Week 4.

In preparation for this course’s practicum experience, address the following in your Practicum Journal:

• Review the media Clinical Interview: Intake, Assessment,& Therapeutic Alliance in your Learning Resources.
• Select one nursing theory and one counseling theory to best guide your practice in psychotherapy. Note: For guidance on nursing and counseling theories, refer to the Wheeler textbook in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Explain why you selected these theories. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
• Develop at least three goals and at least three objectives for the practicum experience in this course.
• Create a timeline of practicum activities based on your practicum requirements.

Discuss the difference between a nursing conceptual model and a nursing theory.

Select a nursing theory and provide a concise summary of it. Provide an example in nursing practice where the nursing theory you selected would be effective in managing patient care.

Read Chapter 2 in Dynamics in Nursing: Art and Science of Professional Practice.

URL:https://www.gcumedia.com/digital-resources/grand-canyon-university/2018/dynamics-in-nursing_art-and-science-of-professional-practice_1e.php

Review “What Is Nursing,” located on the American Nurses Association (ANA) website.

URL:https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/workforce/what-is-nursing/

Week 8: Reflection Paper 

Briefly reflect on your general education capstone experience and address the following questions:

• What are the key takeaways from this class that you will carry with you?
• What did it take to bring your paper and presentation together, and how has that experience shaped your professional outlook?
• What recommendations or advice would you provide for students who will take this capstone course in the future?

Review the rubric for further information on how your assignment will be graded.

Your paper should be 1/2–1 page in length. Adhere to APA Style throughout.

Examine Case Study: An Elderly Hispanic Man With Major Depressive Disorder. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

• At each decision point stop to complete the following:    
  • Decision #1      
    • Which decision did you select?
    • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
    • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
    • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
  • Decision #2      
    • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
    • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources. 
    • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?
  • Decision #3      
    • Why did you select this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
    • What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
    • Explain any difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the results of the decision. Why were they different?

Rubric:

Assignment exceeds expectations. All topics are addressed with a minimum of 75% containing exceptional breadth and depth about each of the assignment topics.

Quality of Work Submitted:
The extent of which work meets the assigned criteria and work reflects graduate level critical and analytic thinking. 

Quality of Work Submitted:
The purpose of the paper is clear. 

Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas:
The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:

Understand and interpret the assignment’s key concepts. 

Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas:
The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:

Apply and integrate material in course resources (i.e. video, required readings, and textbook) and credible outside resources. 

Assimilation and Synthesis of Ideas:
The extent to which the work reflects the student’s ability to:

Synthesize (combines various components or different ideas into a new whole) material in course resources (i.e. video, required readings,  textbook) and outside, credible resources by comparing different points of view and highlighting similarities, differences, and connections. 

Written Expression and Formatting

Paragraph and Sentence Structure: Paragraphs make clear points that support well developed ideas, flow logically, and demonstrate continuity of ideas. Sentences are clearly structured and carefully focused–neither long and rambling nor short and lacking substance. 

Written Expression and Formatting

English writing standards: Correct grammar, mechanics, and proper punctuation 

Written Expression and Formatting

The paper follows correct APA format for title page, headings, font, spacing, margins, indentations, page numbers, running head, parenthetical/in-text citations, and reference list. 

Overview: Dr. Marcia Stanhope (2016) explained that evidence-based  public health practice refers to those decisions made by using the best  available evidence, data and information systems and program frameworks;  engaging community stakeholders in the decision-making process;  evaluating the results; and then disseminating that information to those  who can use the information.

Practicum Discussion: This week, your assignment will be to  incorporate all of the information you have gathered from the  community—including the population itself, health data,  interviews/conversations with interested community members, and your  community assessment, including your Windshield Survey—as well as what  you have gathered from scholarly literature to propose measureable  interventions. Measureable interventions mean that the results can be  measured through some data that could be collected (Stanhope, 2016).  This requires thinking in terms of actions and then measuring results.  An evaluation of interventions is important to see whether or not they  are effective in solving a health care problem. Remember, you will need  to use the data you gathered to determine whether or not a problem  exists in your community and to then determine whether your  interventions might be effective.

Please discuss the following points in your Practicum Discussion:

• Identify one evidence-based behavior change that would promote health in your selected population.
• Suggest one specific culturally sensitive, evidence-based,  measureable intervention to address the health problem for your selected  population.
• Think in terms of measuring outcomes. What outcomes would you expect to see once the intervention(s) are in place? Be specific.