PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 1 Assignment
Clinical Skills Self-Assessment
Before embarking on any professional or academic activity, it is important to understand the background, knowledge, and experience you bring to it. You might ask yourself, “What do I already know? What do I need to know? And what do I want to know?” This critical self-reflection is especially important for developing clinical skills such as those for advanced practice nursing.
The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) Clinical Skills List and Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form provided in the Learning Resources can be used to celebrate your progress throughout your practicum and identify skills gaps. The list covers all necessary skills you should demonstrate during your practicum experiences.
Just as you did in PRAC 6635, for this Assignment, you assess where you are now in your clinical skill development and make plans for this practicum. Specifically, you will identify strengths and opportunities for improvement regarding the required practicum skills. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep assessment and diagnostic reasoning in mind.
To Prepare
Review the resources and clinical skills in the PMHNP Clinical Skills List document. It is recommended that you print out this document to serve as a guide throughout your practicum.
Review the “Developing SMART Goals” resource on how to develop goals and objectives that follow the SMART framework.
Review the resources on nursing competencies and nursing theory and consider how these inform your practice.
Download the?Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form?to complete this Assignment.?
Assignment
Use the PMHNP Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form to complete the following:
Rate yourself?according to?your confidence level?performing the procedures identified on the Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form.?
Based on your ratings, summarize?your strengths and opportunities for improvement.??
Based on your self-assessment and theory of nursing practice, develop?3–4?measurable goals and objectives for this?practicum?experience.?Include them on the designated area of the form.??
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 2 Assignment
Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)
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 psychotherapy approaches and techniques 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??
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)?
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 practice in psychotherapy. 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 3–4 measurable 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.
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 4 Assignment
Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note and Patient Case Presentation
Psychiatric notes are a way to reflect on your practicum experiences and connect them to the didactic learning you gain from your NRNP courses. Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation notes, such as the ones required in this practicum course, are often used in clinical settings to document patient care.
For this Assignment, you will document information about a patient that you examined in a group setting during the last 4 weeks, using the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note Template provided. You will then use this note to develop and record a case presentation for this patient.
To Prepare
Review this week's Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about clinical practice guidelines.
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 5 Assignment
Midterm Clinical Evaluation in Meditrek
Now that you have been working at your practicum site for more than a month, it is time to test your skills. Your Preceptor will now assess your clinical skills in a midterm clinical evaluation. In preparation for your evaluation, you may wish to review your PMHNP Clinical Skills List document, as well as revisit the goals and objectives you established in Weeks 1 and 2.
To prepare
Check with your Preceptor to verify that they have received Meditrek credentials.
Following your midterm evaluation, your Clinical Faculty and Preceptor will meet privately to discuss your results and feedback. Once you receive your feedback, compare your Preceptor’s evaluation with your self-evaluation to better understand your clinical performance.
Clinical Evaluation Grades
Your clinical instructor will complete an evaluation with feedback from your preceptor and evaluation of your work. Meditrek calculates an average score which will be used to determine the score that will be entered into Blackboard for your evaluation grade.
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 7 Assignment
Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note and Patient Case Presentation
Psychiatric notes are a way to reflect on your practicum experiences and connect the experiences to the learning you gain from your weekly Learning Resources. Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation notes, such as the ones required in this practicum course, are often used in clinical settings to document patient care.
For this Assignment, you will document information about a patient that you examined at your practicum site, using the Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note Template provided. You will then use this note to develop and record a case presentation for this patient.
To Prepare
Review this week's Learning Resources and consider the insights they provide about impulse-control and conduct disorders.
Select a patient for whom you conducted psychotherapy for an impulse control or conduct disorder during the last 6 weeks. Create a Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Note on this patient using the template provided in the Learning Resources. There is also a completed template provided as an exemplar and guide. All psychiatric evaluation notes must be signed, and each page must be initialed by your Preceptor. When you submit your note, you should include the complete comprehensive evaluation note as a Word document and pdf/images of each page that is initialed and signed by your Preceptor. You must submit your note using SafeAssign.
Please Note: Electronic signatures are not accepted. If both files are not received by the due date, Faculty will deduct points per the Walden Grading Policy.
Then, based on your evaluation of this patient, develop a video presentation of the case. Plan your presentation using the Assignment rubric and rehearse what you plan to say. Be sure to review the Kaltura Media Uploader resource in the left-hand navigation of the classroom for help creating your self-recorded Kaltura video.
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 10 Assignment
Practicum Application Assignment
Practicum Applications must be submitted in a timely manner to ensure that your Preceptor and Practicum Site meet the requirements of the College of Nursing and Walden University. For this Assignment, you will either submit your Practicum Application or you will submit a revised/updated Practicum Plan that indicates when you plan to take the Practicum courses.
To Prepare
Review the Practicum Application Deadlines found on the College of Nursing Field Experience website to determine when you need to submit your Practicum Application.
Review the Practicum Application Tutorial for submitting applications in Meditrek.
Meditrek Credentials (Username and Password):
Your credentials have been emailed to your Walden student email address. Search your Walden student issued email to locate the email from support@meditrek.info. (Note: Do not email Meditrek directly, please use the following methods if you are unable to locate your Meditrek credentials.)
If you are unable to find your email, you may request your credentials emailed to you online by requesting a password reset online: https://edu.meditrek.com/public/ForgotPassword.aspx
If you are unable to reset your password online, call the Customer Care Team Support at 800-925-3368 or live chat via your student portal.
The Assignment:
You must complete either Part 1 or Part 2 of this Assignment:
Part 1: Practicum Application
Login into Meditrek and complete your Practicum Application. When the application is complete, submit it and create a PDF of the confirmation email you received.
Part 2: Practicum Plan
Using the affiliation agreement search within Meditrek and identify potential Practicum Sites that are in your area to assist you in identifying potential Preceptors.
Complete the Practicum Plan form found in Meditrek, submit it and create a PDF of the confirmation email you received.
By Day 7
Submit either your Practicum Application or Practicum Plan submission confirmation email PDF.
PRAC6645 Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities Practicum
Week 11 Assignment
Journal Entry
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Critical reflection on your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting helps you identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your strengths and successes.
Use this Journal to reflect on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement, the progress you made, and what insights you will carry forward into your next practicum.
To Prepare
Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 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 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.
In 450–500 words, address the following:
Learning From Experiences
Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.
Reflect on the three most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?
What did you learn from this experience?
What resources were available?
What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
What would you do differently?
How are you managing patient flow and volume?
Communicating and Feedback
Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge and how to communicate those efforts to your Preceptor.
Answer the questions: How am I doing? What is missing?
Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.
By Day 7
Submit your Journal.
