Assignment Task I:
Question 1: What are your goals for your first nurse practitioner practicum?
- What are your goals for the first day?
- What do you hope to achieve by the end of the session?
- Review the Family Nurse Practitioner Practicum Procedures and Experiences List. How can you use this document to help guide your first clinical rotation?
Question 2: Discuss your feelings about starting your first practicum rotation:
- How do you expect the experience will compare to undergraduate clinical rotations? What qualities will be the same, and what will be different?
- What adjectives describe how you will meet the opportunities and challenges of your practicum?
- 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.
Question 3: 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.
Assignment Task II: Integration of Evidence: Integrate relevant scholarly sources as defined by program expectations:
a. Cite a scholarly source in the initial post.
b. Accurately analyze, synthesize, and/or apply principles from evidence
c. Include a minimum of two different scholarly sources. Cite all references and provide references for all citations in 7th edition APA format. All references need to be within 5 years.
Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
Reference Citation: Use current APA format to format citations and references and is free of errors.
The goal of this assignment is to talk about your first day and hopes for your first practicum as a future nurse practitioner.