Practicum Experience Plan
Prior to starting the course, you should have applied for a practicum site following the guidelines for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) practice. Now it is time to make it official. For this Assignment, you provide your Clinical Faculty with information about your practicum site, your Preceptor, and your clinical calendar.
To Prepare
- Verify that your practicum application has been approved by logging in to Meditrek.
- Access the Practicum Site Information Form from the Learning Resources.
The Assignment
Students must provide their schedule in the form of a monthly calendar with the time written out on the appropriate date. For example, writing 8 hours on the 5th day of the monthly calendar slot is not acceptable. You must enter 8am-4pm or 10pm-6pm in the day slot of the monthly calendar. Students need to complete the calendar for the whole quarter to demonstrate to the faculty the total number of hours to be completed this quarter.
Requirements: 4 pages
Please, follow the posted instructions carefully. This assignment will need an introduction and concluding part, and 5 most recent APA 7th edition references from 2017.
This is a sample, please follow this pattern.
Answer preview
There are different activities I will exercise to improve communication and collaboration skills to become an effective team player. First, I will identify with the psychologists and the psychiatrists leading and coordinating the comprehensive mental health assessments within the clinical setting. Second, I will interact with social workers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals involved in multidisciplinary interventions (Monson et al., 2021). Third I will work with the healthcare professionals in liaison and consultation services to give views and opinions on different subjects. Finally, I will use psychiatrist evaluation skills and expertise and the diagnostic reasoning skills to add an important dimension of holistic care for positive outcomes.
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Practicum Experience Plan
