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Nurse Educator Concluding Graduate Experience

Purpose

The direct care practicum experience is a 48-hour practicum experience that focuses on gaining advanced nursing knowledge and skills in a direct care experience with patients. The purpose of the direct care experience is for the student to develop mastery of advanced patient care delivery skills, as well as system assessment and intervention skills.

Students will utilize direct care knowledge and theory to deepen and expand skills in a nursing area of choice. The chosen direct care practicum site will encompass the student's direct care nursing preference, which can be in a traditional hospital or community setting or a nontraditional community setting pending approval via the practicum coordinator contract process. A direct care mentor at the practice setting is required. This direct care practicum occurs as part of the course requirements for NR622: Concluding Graduate Experience II. The executive summary details the direct care practicum individual learning experience.

Examples of direct care activities/experiences include:

• Individual, Family, Population Assessments
• Individual, Family, Population Care Planning
• Discharge Planning
• Quality Improvement Projects
• Leading Group Therapy
• Direct care activities at the advanced level

Course Outcomes:

Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to do the following.

• CO5: Assume the role of nurse educator and leader, through compassionate, evidence-based, collaborative advanced nursing practice. (Leadership and Management) (PO 5)

• CO6: Demonstrate advanced nursing care through application of the nursing process in a direct care clinical setting. (PO 1, 2, 5)

Individual Population, patient diagnosis with diabetic, clinical site or practicum site doctor office/walk-in clinic. Title page Introduction to the Direct Care Experience setting, population/vulnerable population, and activities that deepen and expand knowledge and skills in a specific area of direct patient care. Description of setting, population/vulnerable population, and Direct Care activities. Provide an example of a patient that you assessed. APIE (Assessment, Plan, Implementation, and Evaluation) of chosen Direct Care patient/population. Describe APIE of the patient and/or population.

Assessment of needs

Explain how you assessed the need of the patient and/or population and the findings. Go through each body system. This should describe a detailed assessment. Plan State a minimum of three short-term goals.

Phrase the short-term goals according to the SMART criteria: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. Prioritize the plan of action. Implementation Describe the interventions that were implemented. Provide details regarding the implementation process such as materials and patient/population responses.

Evaluation - describe the evaluation of the interventions. If you were unable to evaluate during the direct care experience, describe how you would have evaluated. Interprofessional Collaboration used in the Direct Care Practicum Experience. Describe the interprofessional collaboration that took place during the Direct Care Experience.

Include titles of individuals, their positions, departments, etc.(exclude names) Include reasons for the collaboration Include plans and/or solutions that resulted from the collaboration.

ASSIGNMENT OVERVIEW

This assignment is structured to support students in synthesizing their Direct Care Summary Executive Summary. Elements of your Direct Care Summary Executive Summary include:

o Title page
o Introduction to the Direct Care Experience setting, population/vulnerable population, and activities that deepen and expand knowledge and skills in a specific area of direct patient care
Provide an example of a patient that you assessed
o APIE (Assessment, Plan, Implementation, and Evaluation) of chosen Direct Care patient/population.
Assessment of needs
Plan - goals
• prioritization
Implementation - interventions
Evaluation - evaluation of the interventions
o Interprofessional Collaboration used in the Direct Care Practicum Experience
o Self-Reflection
o Conclusion
o Reference Page (Citations optional - include reference page if citations used)

ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Your Direct Care Summary Executive Summary demonstrates a presentation and synthesis of your direct care practicum. The following information should be included in your paper.

1. Introduction to Direct Care Experience
a. Description of setting, population/vulnerable population, and Direct Care activities
b. Provide an example of a patient that you assessed

2. APIE (Assessment, Plan, Implementation, Evaluation)
a. Describe APIE of the patient and/or population
b. Explain how you assessed the need of the patient and/or population
c. State a minimum of three short-term goals. (Phrase the short-term goals according to the SMART criteria: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely)
d. Prioritize a plan of action
e. Describe the interventions that were implemented
i. Provide details regarding the implementation process such as materials and patient/population responses
f. Describe the evaluation of the interventions

3. Interprofessional Collaboration
a. Describe the interprofessional collaboration that took place during the Direct Care experience
i. Include titles of individuals, their positions, departments,
ii. Include reasons for the collaboration and
iii. Include plans and/or solutions that resulted from the collaboration
iv. Provide details regarding any conflicts and resolutions

4. Self-Reflection
a. Provide a self-reflection of your Direct Care Practicum Experience.
i. Describe what went well
ii. Describe the challenges
iii. Identify the new learning and insights, which assisted to deepen and expand knowledge of the direct care patient experience

5. Conclusion
a. Provide a detailed conclusion for the executive summary
i. Recap the direct care setting/patient population, to include the patient you focused your APIE on
ii. Briefly summarize each section of your entire paper
iii. Final brief summary of your overarching experience

REVISION PROCESS

If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:

• After receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit
• To resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment. Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission
• Only content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and writing style will not be re-graded
• Points possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric category (84%)
• Any revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not earn a proficient rating
• Within 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the resubmitted work

Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn a proficient rating on the rubric:

• Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not receive a proficient rating on the rubric
• Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7 days of the original assignment grade being posted

PREPARING THE ASSIGNMENT

Criteria for Format and Special Instructions

1. The executive summary is a written paper with a title page and reference page if needed. Due to the individualized nature of the direct care practicum experience, there is no length requirements
2. Title page, body of paper, and reference page must follow APA guidelines as found in the current edition of the manual. This includes the use of headings for each section of the paper except for the introduction where no heading is used
3. Ideas and information from scholarly, peer reviewed, nursing sources are cited and referenced correctly according to the current edition of the APA Manual
4. Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, and punctuation are followed and consistent with formal, scientific writing and professional management communication.

The practicum experience also emphasizes professional accountability, effective leadership styles, and sound values and ethics when providing patient-centered care and collaborating with healthcare teams.