Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to observe a interprofessional collaboration (or multidisciplinary committee).
Professional Capstone & Practicum Reflective Journal
This paragraph is an introduction of the project topic which is the focus of the weekly reflective journals. This paper is a compilation those journals that the student has been keeping for the10-weeks of this class. Reflections should outline what the student has discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:
Week _____: New practice approaches
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to learn a new practice approach.
Week ______: Intra-professional collaboration
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to observe a interprofessional collaboration (or multidisciplinary committee).
Week ______: Health care delivery and clinical systems
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to learn about the facility’s patient care delivery system or the clinical system approach.
Week ______: Ethical considerations in health care
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to observe an ethical consideration or situation caused by or because of the health care approach.
Week: _____: Practices of culturally sensitive care
Explain how the practicum activity of the week allows you to show respect for the patient’s cultural background when giving care to the patient with focus on your practicum topic / research project.
Week______: Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in care of all patients
Describe how the patient’s integrity is preserved during care provided to the patient which focus of your practicum topic / research project.
Week ______: Population health concerns
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to learn about the health care issues that impact a specific population of patients.
Week ______: The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you observe how technology is used to improve patient care outcomes.
Week ______: Health policy
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to learn how health policy impacts patient care or organizational system issue.
Week ______: Leadership and economic models
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to learn leadership skills or evaluate the economic impact on patient care outcomes.
Week ______: Health disparities
Explain how the practicum activities of this week allowed you to observe the impact on health care of different patient populations in relation to access to available health care.
Conclusion
4-5 Sentence wrap up of major points.
This is an electronic template for papers written in APA style (American Psychological Association, 2010). The purpose of the template is to help the student set the margins and spacing. Margins are set at 1 inch for top, bottom, left, and right. The type is left-justified only—that means the left margin is straight, but the right margin is ragged. Each paragraph is indented five spaces. It is best to use the tab key to indent. The line spacing is double throughout the paper, even on the reference page. One space is used after punctuation at the end of sentences. The font style used in this template is Times New Roman and the font size is 12.
