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Submit evidence of having completed 40 clinical practicum hours. Also submit your responses to the four reflective questions from your reflection journal.
In Assessment 5, you will submit evidence of your logged clinical practicum hours. You will also submit your completed responses to the four reflective questions from your reflection journal.
Note: You must have completed 40 practice hours, documented the hours, and submitted them to the Capella Academic Portal by the end of the course. You will not be able to pass this course if you have not passed this assessment. You must also submit your completed nursing reflection journal.
INSTRUCTIONS
Refer to the BSN Practicum Campus page for more information and instructions on how to log your hours in the Capella Academic Portal (CAP).
You need to have 40 documented practicum hours at the completion of this course.
Remember, any time spent working toward your practicum hours must not be compensated time. Any practicum time logged must be exclusive of your employment duties.
For this assessment make sure that you have:
- Logged your hours and submitted appropriate supporting documentation for the completion of the hours via the CAP.
- Submitted a screenshot of all of your logged hours and uploaded supporting documents from the CAP to the assessment submission area.
- Submitted the PDF containing all required entries of your reflection journal. Go to the Nursing Reflection Journal: Professional Standards and Values Activity. When you have completed all four entries for this journal activity, select the Output Activity button to download a PDF of your answers. Then submit the PDF to this assessment.
Make sure that you have answered each of these questions as they relate to integrating professional standards and values into practice.
Wellness and Disease Prevention
- Reflect on the health promotion disease prevention interventions you witnessed in your practicum site, as it relates to the social determinants of health most prevalent in your community.
- What did you see?
- What does this time mean to you as a professional nurse in your role?
Chronic Disease Management
- Reflect on the integration of interprofessional team-based care as it relates to chronic disease management in your practicum site.
- What did you see?
- What does this time mean to you as a professional nurse in your role?
Regenerative and Restorative Care
- Reflect on the acute management of illnesses such as stroke, mental illness, and falls in your practicum site.
- What did you see?
- What does this time mean to you as a professional nurse in your role?
Hospice and Palliative Care
- Reflect on end-of-life nursing and advanced illness and hospice care in your practicum site.
- What did you see?
- What does this time mean to you as a professional nurse in your role?
Wellness and disease prevention: This sphere emphasizes health promotion, as well as the treatment of minor uncomplicated diseases or injuries for those not experiencing chronic illness or life-limiting conditions. Prenatal care, screenings, immunizations, and health promotion are some examples of care in this sphere (AACN, 2021). Nursing knowledge and competency in disease prevention and addressing social determinants of health are vital to promoting wellness across populations.
Chronic disease management: This sphere encompasses caring for those with one or more chronic diseases and preventing adverse outcomes associated with them. Specialized nursing care is often needed for this population due to the complex needs, along with integrated interprofessional team-based care. Four in 10 Americans have two or more chronic diseases, and those diagnosed with multiple comorbidities are projected to increase.
Regenerative and restorative care: This sphere includes critical and trauma care, complex acute care, acute exacerbations of chronic disease, and care of unstable patients who are typically in acute care hospital settings (AACN, 2021). This sphere includes the acute management of illness, such as a stroke or mental health crisis, and progression through the rehabilitative phase. Nursing skills and management of these populations are resource-intensive and specialized.
Hospice and palliative care: The final sphere relates to competencies surrounding palliative care in advanced illness and hospice care at the end of life. All registered nurses provide generalist palliative care in compassionate and patient-centered care while managing pain and other symptoms associated with advanced, progressive illness. The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium has mapped its competencies and recommendations for educating nursing students competencies to the new AACN Essentials to assist educators in this endeavor.
Reference
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2021). The essentials: Core competencies for professional nursing education [PDF].https://www.aacnnursing.org/
COMPETENCIES
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 7: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.
- Complete the required practicum hours and upload to the CAP. Take a screenshot of completed hours along with all four journal entries and upload all items to the assignment submission area.
