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What are your goals for practicum?
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What are your goals for the first day?
My goals for the first day were to adjust to new people, feel confident, and just take in as much information as I could. I hope to get more comfortable with each day and try not to get too overwhelmed.
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What do you hope to achieve by the end of the session?
I just hope to feel more knowledgeable with each rotation. I hope to not only see my own growth but also have reassurance from peers and preceptors that they can see growth over each session. I am eager to start this next chapter of becoming a great nurse practitioner and providing excellent patient care.
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Review the
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. How can you use this document to help guide your first clinical rotation?
This guide will be a helpful tool in exposing myself to the experiences and procedures that I need to be participating in at my clinic sites. I want to participate in as many procedures as possible in order to gain the experience before getting out of school and preparing to practice.
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Discuss your feelings about starting your first practicum rotation:
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How do you expect the experience will compare to undergraduate clinical rotations? What qualities will be the same, and what will be different?
As an undergrad, I feel I was significantly more nervous because I had not been exposed to much in the healthcare environment. Now that I have been a nurse for 10 years, I feel as though I have a solid foundation of knowledge. Regardless, I still realized I have so much more to learn and going from a nurse to a clinician is a whole different realm.
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What adjectives describe how you will meet the opportunities and challenges of your practicum?
Resilient, confident, persevering, enthusiastic, caring, determined. These are a few that come to mind when thinking about my clinical experiences and the qualities it will take for me to be successful.
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Identify two factors that may bar your success in completing clinical requirements. Identify two facilitators to overcome the identified barriers and support your success in completing clinical requirements.
Two factors that could potentially bar my success in my clinical requirements would be time management and not utilizing my resources. I realize that I am still working full time and I have three kids. I will have to be very mindful of my time and using it with purpose. I must ensure I am logging my cases in a timely manner and do my best not to get behind. Furthermore, if I do not reach out for assistance or use the resources that are available to me could also hinder my success
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The use of evidence-based guidelines is essential for practice. Discuss three resources will you use in the clinical setting to identify the most recent clinical practice guidelines.
There are many resources that are available to use during my clinicals and future practice. Right now my top three resources would be UpToDate, Epocrates, and then also researching scholarly articles. It will be important during my practicum and also in practice to collaborate with other healthcare professionals as well. “Building collaborative relationships with other healthcare professionals and negotiating the role are critical to the success of the implementation of the advanced nurse practitioner role” (Torrens et al., 2020).
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