Week 6 Clinical Practicum Activity Summary

Week 6 Clinical Practicum Activity Summary

Weekly practicum activity summaries and reflections to be submitted for review are to be typed, grammatically correct, and error free.

Weekly practicum activity summaries should include:

1. Stated weekly focus and learning objectives.

2. Summary of planned or completed activities.

3. Discussion of technology, evidence-based practice, and other advanced practice role implementation issues studied during the week.

4. Reflection on the week’s learnings and implications for your own nursing practice.

Students will receive feedback from faculty regarding their weekly personal learning objectives, activities, and reflections. The purpose of weekly clinical practicum activities and summaries is to expose the MSN nursing student to advanced practice roles and their effect on health care.

Template for Weekly Practicum Activity Summary

Directions: Submit a three- to five-page summary of each week’s activities using the template below. If an interview is conducted, also attach the list of interview questions used.

Name:

Week #_ Focus:

1. My personal learning objectives this week (list):

a.

b.

c.

2. Summary of planned/completed activities:

3. Discussion of issues identified and studied this week: Include two or more citations from relevant literature using APA 6th ed. format.

4. Reflection on your own learning for the week and implications for your nursing practice:

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.