Practicum Experience Plan

Practicum Experience Plan

The primary objective of the practicum is to expand the learners’ knowledge and expand in specific course areas. The practicum sessions and the highlighted working objectives are a roadmap towards professional excellence as a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP), as they bolster PMHNP’s knowledge base, decision-making, critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration with other caregivers. I expected to gather insights into collaborative nursing care, mental health promotion, and the best practices in high-quality mental healthcare. The practicum is  established on the precinct of one nursing and counseling theory.

The nursing theory that guided the practicum session is the trans-cultural theory. This theory provides a framework for culturally congruent care by emphasizing the need to understand patients’ cultural backgrounds and how it impacts care (Berhanu et al., 2021). In this respect, PMHNPs should maintain cultural awareness and demonstrate best practices in transcultural care to better handle patients from different cultures. Entering the practicum, I anticipate providing care to diverse patient groups. I intend to bolster my trans-cultural communication skills and cultural awareness to collaborate with cross-cultural caregivers and patients and provide psycho-education to diverse patient groups.

The counseling theory that guided the practicum session is the holistic counseling theory. The holistic theory integrates all aspects of wellness (Phan et al., 2021). Entering the practicum, I anticipate meeting mental health patients with diverse suffering and presentations. By addressing all components of my patient’s wellness, I believe I will be able to produce a greater impact on their wellness.

Overview:

Your Practicum experience includes working in a clinical setting that will help you gain the knowledge and skills needed as an advanced practice nurse. In your practicum experience, you will develop a practicum plan that sets forth objectives to frame and guide your practicum experience.

As part of your Practicum Experience Plan, you will not only plan for your learning in your practicum experience but also work through various patient visits with focused notes as well as one (1) journal entry.

Complete each section below.

Part 1: Quarter/Term/Year and Contact Information

Section A

Quarter/Term/Year:

Student Contact Information

Name:

Street Address:

City, State, Zip: N/A

Home Phone: N/A

Work Phone: N/A

Cell Phone:N/A

Fax:N/A

E-mail:             N/A

Preceptor Contact Information

Name:

Organization: Evara Health

Street Address: 3860 Tampa Rd Suite C, Oldsmar, FL 34677, United States

City, State, Zip: 33602

Work Phone: +1 727-824-8181

Cell Phone: N/A

Fax: N/A

Professional/Work E-mail: N/A

Part 2: Individualized Practicum Learning Objectives

Objective 1: To understand and demonstrate the role of PMHNPs in multidisciplinary care for patients with mental health illnesses by the third week of the practicum.

Planned Activities:  I intend to expand my understanding of the space of PMHNPs in the multidisciplinary team, as well as their roles in clinical decision-making and care processes for patients with mental health illnesses, by completing at least 40 hours of engaging and working with other PMHNPs in the team. I will also engage my preceptor on the fundamental principles of effective nursing care and how to engage caregivers from other health cadres within the team.

Mode of Assessment: Self-assessment evaluating knowledge on the role of nurses in the multidimensional care for mental health illnesses.

PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed: Work with a multidisciplinary team to improve clinical care in mental healthcare settings.

Objective 2: To understand and demonstrate the prerequisite collaboration skills that foster effective relationships and collaboration between PMHNPs and other healthcare providers involved in multidisciplinary mental healthcare within the second week of the practicum.

Planned Activities: Effective collaborations foster joint decision-making and enable collaborative care. I intend to expand my ability to collaborate with my patients and other caregivers by acclimatizing myself to normative interpersonal skills and best practices in teamwork, such as effective communication, role interdependence, respect, and cooperation.

Mode of Assessment: Joint sessions with my preceptor to evaluate my ability to demonstrate effective collaboration skills.

PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed: Assess APN skills for their ability to practice within their scope of practice in a complex and ever-changing healthcare landscape involving healthcare professionals from different cadres.

Objective 3: To be confident in providing psycho-education to diverse groups of clients independently by the tenth week of the practicum.

Planned Activities: Provide psycho-education to at least 30 patients presenting with various mental healthcare illnesses.

Mode of Assessment: Joint educational session with my preceptor to evaluate my demonstration of best practices in psycho-education, such as effective communication and active listening.

PRAC Course Outcome(s) Addressed: Demonstrate ability to educate patients and communities on mental health illnesses.

Part 3: Projected Timeline/Schedule

Estimate how many hours you expect to work on your Practicum each week. *Note: All of your hours and activities must be supervised by your Preceptor and completed onsite. Your Preceptor will approve all hours, but your activities will be approved by both your Preceptor and Instructor. Any changes to this plan must be approved.

This timeline is intended as a planning tool; your actual schedule may differ from the projections you are making now.

I intend to complete the 144 or 160 Practicum hours (as applicable) according to the following timeline/schedule. I also understand that I must see at least 80 patients during my practicum experience. I understand that I may not complete my practicum hours sooner than 8 weeks. I understand I may not be in the practicum setting longer than 8 hours per day unless pre-approved by my faculty.

	Number of Clinical Hours Projected for Week (hours you are in Practicum Setting at your Field Site)	Number of Weekly Hours for Professional Development (these are not practicum hour)	Number of Weekly Hours for Practicum Coursework (these are not practicum hours)
Week 1	6	6	6
Week 2	7	5	5
Week 3	7	5	5
Week 4	8	7	6
Week 5	8	7	6
Week 6	8	7	6
Week 7	7	6	6
Week 8	8	7	6
Week 9	8	7	6
Week 10	7	6	6
Week 11	7	6	6
Total Hours (must meet the following requirements)	160 Hours

 

 

Part 4 – Signatures

 

Student Signature (electronic):                                            Date:

 

Practicum Faculty Signature (electronic)**:                                 Date:

 

** Faculty signature signifies approval of Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)

Submit your Practicum Experience Plan on or before Day 7 of Week 2 for faculty review and approval.

 Once approved, you will receive a copy of the PEP for your records. You must share an approved copy with your Preceptor. The Preceptor is not required to sign this form.

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Hello, i have sent you the examples. Please do let me know if you have any questions. Please follow the rubric . Please also follow the clinical self assessment you guys did.

As you establish your goals and objectives for this course, you are committing to an organized plan that will frame your practicum experience in a clinical setting, including planned activities, assessment, and achievement of defined outcomes. In particular, they must address the categories of clinical reasoning, quality in your clinical specialty, and interpersonal collaborative practice.

For this Assignment, you will consider the areas you aim to focus on to gain practical experience as an advanced practice nurse. Then, you will develop a Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) containing the objectives you will fulfill in order to achieve your aims. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep psychiatric assessment and diagnostic reasoning in mind.

RESOURCES

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

WEEKLY RESOURCE

TO PREPARE
Review your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted last week and think about areas for which you would like to gain application-level experience and/or continued growth as an advanced practice nurse. How can your experiences in the practicum help you achieve these aims?
Review the information related to developing objectives provided in this week’s Learning Resources. Your practicum learning objectives that you want to achieve during your practicum experience must be:
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Results-focused
Time-bound
Reflective of the higher-order domains of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., application level and above)
Note: Please make sure your objectives are individualized and outlined in your Practicum Experience Plan (PEP). While you may add previous objectives to continue to work toward. You must have 3 new objectives for each class, each quarter.

Discuss your professional aims and your proposed practicum objectives with your Preceptor to ascertain if the necessary resources are available at your practicum site.
Select one nursing theory and one counseling/psychotherapy theory to best guide your clinical practice. Explain why you selected these theories. Support your approach with evidence-based literature.
Create a timeline of practicum activities that demonstrates how you plan to meet these goals and objectives based on your practicum requirements.
ASSIGNMENT
Record the required information in each area of the Practicum Experience Plan template, including three to four (3–4) practicum learning objectives you will use to facilitate your learning during the practicum experience.

BY DAY 7
Submit the Practicum Experience Plan for assessment and Faculty approval. When your Instructor has approved your plan, forward the signed PEP to your Preceptor, and retain a copy for your records.