Order Description
1. As a future advanced practice nurse, it is important that you are able to connect your classroom experience to your practicum experience. By applying the concepts you study in the classroom to clinical settings, you enhance your professional competency. Each week, you complete an Assignment such as a Journal Entry or SOAP Note that prompts you to reflect on your practicum experiences and relate them to the material presented in the classroom. This week, you begin documenting your practicum experiences in your Practicum Journal. Please use the Practicum Journal Template, located in this week?s Learning Resources.
To prepare for this course?s Practicum Experience, address the following in your practicum journal:
1; Select an aging theory to guide your practice. ( USE Psychosocial Theories of aging !!!!! in cooperate Physiologic theories if possible.)
Develop goals and objectives for the Practicum Experience in this course. Be sure to consider geriatric competencies.
Create a timeline of practicum activities based on your practicum requirements.
? Include references immediately following the content.
? Use APA style for your journal entry and references.
Flaherty, E., & Resnick, B. (Eds.). (2014). Geriatric nursing review syllabus: A core curriculum in advanced practice geriatric nursing (4th ed.). New York, NY: American Geriatrics Society.
1: Introduction
2:Theory
3: Practicum Goals and Objectives
4: Week 1 Journal Entry – (we talk about this one)
5: Conclusion
Week 2 : To prepare for this course?s Practicum Experience, reflect on implications of age-related changes in geriatric patients. Explain how you might differentiate between normal behaviors/disorders due to aging and abnormal behavior/disorders that are not age related. Include how functional assessments might help distinguish ?normal? from ?abnormal.?
