[Solved] PRAC 6531 Week 10 Assignment 2: Journal Entry

COURSE:

PRAC 6531 – Primary Care of Adults Across the Lifespan Practicum

JOURNAL ENTRY

Critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your clinical strengths and successes.

This week, you will write a Journal Entry, reflecting on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement.
RESOURCES

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

WEEKLY RESOURCES

To prepare:

  • Refer to the “Advanced Nursing Practice Competencies and Guidelines” found in Week 1’s 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 and Procedures 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.

Journal Entry (450–500 words):

Learning from Experiences

  • Reflect on the three most challenging patients. What was most challenging for each?
  • What did you learn from this experience?
  • What resources did you have available?
  • What evidence-based practice did you use for this patient?
  • What new skills are you learning?
  • What would you do differently?
  • How are you managing patient flow and volume?

Communicating and Feedback

  • Reflect on how to improve on your skills and knowledge and how to communicate that back to your Preceptor.
  • How are you doing? What is missing?
  • What type of feedback are you receiving from your Preceptor?

 

SOLUTION

Week 10 Journal Entry

This week I will be discussing two military veterans that are having problem with adjusting to normal society after coming home from the Iraqi war. They are both having behavioral and substance abuse problem. As a matter of fact, they were ordered to seek therapy help by the court after unruly behavior episodes by the at a community center in the city. Their session takes place 3-days a week. This entry will contain medical history, psychiatric or mental illness history, DSM-5 diagnosis, and ethical or legal problems that may arise.

Patient # 1

Patient 1 is a Caucasian male of age 35-years and has been back from the Iraq war about 5- years ago hence the history of PTSD was there in his medical records. He has been hospitalized……………………….$10