Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) PRAC 6665
Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) PRAC 6665
Assignment 2: Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)
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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, your
plan 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 PMHNP
clinical skills in mind.
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? There may be overlap between your
skills goals and your PEP goals.
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:
o Specific
o Measurable
o Attainable
o Results-focused
o Time-bound
o Reflective of the higher-order domains of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., application
level and above)
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 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.
The Assignment
Record the required information in each area of the Practicum Experience Plan template,
including three to four (3–4) measurable practicum Learning Objectives you will use to
facilitate your learning during the practicum experience.
By Day 7 of Week 2
Submit your 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.
Submission and Grading Information
To submit your completed Assignment for review and grading, do the following:
Please save your Assignment using the naming convention “WK2Assgn2+last
name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
Click the Week 2 Assignment 2 Rubric to review the Grading Criteria for the
Assignment.
Click the Week 2 Assignment 2 link. You will also be able to “View Rubric” for
grading criteria from this area.
Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer button. Find the
document you saved as “WK2Assgn2+last name+first initial.(extension)” and
click Open.
If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to
submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database.
Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
Grading Criteria
To access your rubric:
Week 2 Assignment 2 Rubric
Check Your Assignment Draft for Authenticity
To check your Assignment draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 2 Assignment 2 draft and review the originality report.
Submit Your Assignment by Day 7 of Week 2
To participate in this Assignment:
Week 2 Assignment
What’s Coming Up in Week 3?
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Next week, you will select a clinical patient from your practicum setting and complete a
Focused SOAP Note to formulate differential diagnoses and document treatment. Based on
this evaluation note, you will then develop a case study presentation on this patient. You
will also track your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.
Next Week
To go to the next week:
Week 3
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Learning Resources
Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (n.d.). Toolbox of forms.
Retrieved November 18, 2020, from
https://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Member_Resources/AACAP_Toolbox_for_Clinical_Practi
ce_and_Outcomes/Forms.aspx
American Geriatrics Society 2019 Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel. (2019). American
Geriatrics Society 2019 updated AGS Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate
medication use in older adults. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(4), 674–694.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.15767
Carlat, D. J. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
Section I. General Principles of Effective Interviewing (Chapters 1–13)
Section III. Interviewing for Diagnosis: The Psychiatric Review of Symptoms
(Chapters 19–22)
Appendixes A–C
Meditrek
https://edu.meditrek.com/Default.html
Note: Use this link to log into Meditrek to report your clinical hours and
patient encounters.
Pumariega, A. J., Rothe, E., Mian, A., Carlisle, L., Toppelberg, C., Harris, T., Gogineni, R.
R., Webb, S., Smith, J., & American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Committee on Quality Issues. (2013). Practice parameter for cultural competence in child
and adolescent psychiatric practice. Journal of the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry, 52(10), 1101–1115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2013.06.019
Walden University Academic Skills Center. (2017). Developing SMART goals.
https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/ld.php?content_id=51901492
Document: Practicum Experience Plan Template (Word document)
Reminder: Introductory Communication
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This week, you must coordinate an introductory email with your Clinical Faculty and
Preceptor. The purpose of this communication is for orientation and onboarding, goals
discussion, and questions.
By Day 7 of Week 2
Complete your orientation email. Attach your clinical schedule calendar developed in
Week 1 in your email. Include a summary of your goals and objectives for this practicum
experience.