PRAC 6635 Week 2 Assignment 2

Week 2: Assignment 2: 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 psychiatric assessment and diagnostic reasoning in mind. 

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

Weekly Learning Resources & Required Readings

• Carlat, D. J. (2024). The psychiatric interview (5th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.
  • Chapter 1, “The Initial Interview: A Preview”
  • Chapter 2, “Logistic Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview”
  • Chapter 3, “The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It’s Important, and How to Establish It”
  • Chapter 4, “Asking Questions I: How to Approach Threatening Topics”
  • Chapter 5, “Asking Questions II: Tricks for Improving Patient Recall”
  • Chapter 6, “Asking Questions III: How to Change Topics with Style”
  • Chapter 7, “Techniques for the Reluctant Patient”
  • Chapter 8, “Techniques for the Overly Talkative Patient”
  • Chapter 9, “Techniques for the Malingering Patient”
  • Chapter 10, “Techniques for the Agitated Patient”
  • Chapter 11, “Techniques for the Adolescent Patient”
  • Chapter 12, “Interviewing Family Members and Other Informants”
  • Chapter 13, “Techniques for Other Challenging Situations”
  • Chapter 14, “Practical Psychodynamics in the Diagnostic Interview”
• HSoft Corporation. (2020). Meditrek: Home. https://edu.meditrek.com/Default.html
• Note: Use this website to log into Meditrek to report your clinical hours and patient encounters.
• ·  Document: Practicum Experience Plan Template
• Recommended
• American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Section I: DSM-5 basics. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.). 
• Boland, R. Verdiun, M. L. & Ruiz, P. (2022). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry (12th ed.). Wolters Kluwer. 
• Walden University. (2020). College of Nursing practicum manual: Master of science in nursing (MSN) and post-master’s certificate programs. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/formsanddocuments
• ·  Walden University Field Experience. (2020a). Field experience: College of Nursing.  https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home
• ·  Walden University Field Experience. (2020b). Student practicum resources: NP student  orientation. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/StudentPracticum/NP_StudentOrientation

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.

The 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. 

submission information

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Rubric

Total Points: 100