Overview
Critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your clinical strengths and successes.
This week, you will write a Journal Entry, reflecting on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Journal Entry (450–500 words):
Learning from Experiences
- Reflect on the three most challenging patients. (Female patient with post-menopausal bleeding, new patient relocating from another state d/t schizophrenia and seizures/ convincing patient with low BP in office to go to ER. What was most challenging for each?
- What did you learn from this experience?
- What resources did you have available?
- What evidence-based practice did you use for this patient?
- What new skills are you learning?
- What would you do differently?
- How are you managing patient flow and volume?
Communicating and Feedback
- Reflect on how to improve on your skills and knowledge and how to communicate that back to your Preceptor.
- How are you doing? What is missing?
- What type of feedback are you receiving from your Preceptor?