Assignment 4: Journal Entry #1

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Critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum

experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you 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.

To prepare:

 Refer to your FNP Clinical Skills and Procedures Self-Assessment Form

from your previous assignment in this week and consider your strengths and

opportunities for improvement.

Journal Entry (450–500 words): 

 Explain what most excites and/or concerns you about pediatric clinical

experiences. Include a description of your strengths and weaknesses in terms

of working with children and how these strengths and weaknesses might

impact your Practicum experience.

 Discuss your personal definition of family and family roles that might

impact the assessment of a child and his or her family. Also expand your

discussion on the challenges of working with families. Explain how you

would handle parents that do not want to vaccinate children.

 Then, explain how culture (both the culture of the provider and that of the

child and his or her family) may further influence the assessment.

 Select and explain a nursing theory to guide your practice with pediatric

patients.

 

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Rubric Detail

 

Name: PRAC_6541_Week1_Journal1_Rubric

 

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Assimilation and Synthesis:

Content Reflection

 

50 (50%) – 50 (50%)

Reflection demonstrates a high

level of critical thinking in

applying and integrating key

course concepts and theories

from readings, lectures, and/or

discussions. Insightful and

relevant connections are made

through contextual

explanations and examples.

 

40 (40%) – 49 (49%)

Reflection demonstrates a

moderate level of critical

thinking in applying and

integrating key course concepts

and theories from readings,

lectures, and/or discussions.

Connections are made through

explanations and/or examples.

 

31 (31%) – 39 (39%)

Reflection demonstrates

minimal critical thinking in

applying and integrating key

course concepts and theories

from readings, lectures, and/or

discussions. Minimal

connections are made through

explanations and/or examples.

 

0 (0%) – 30 (30%)

Reflection lacks critical

thinking. Superficial

connections are made with key

course concepts and resources,

and/or assignments

 

Assimilation and Synthesis:

Personal Growth

 

30 (30%) – 30 (30%)

Expresses solid evidence of

reflection on own work.

Demonstrates substantial

personal growth and

awareness of deeper meaning

through inferences, well-

developed insights, and

significant depth in awareness

and challenges. Synthesizes

current experience into future

implications.

 

20 (20%) – 29 (29%)

Expresses moderate evidence

of reflection on own work.

Demonstrates satisfactory

personal growth and

awareness through some

inferences, insights, and

challenges. There is mention of

the future implications of

student’s current experience.

 

10 (10%) – 19 (19%)

Expresses minimal evidence of

reflection on own work.

Demonstrates less than

adequate personal growth and

awareness through limited or

simplistic inferences made,

insights, and/or challenges that

are not well developed.

Minimal thought of future

implications of student’s

current experience.

 

0 (0%) – 9 (9%)

Expresses inadequate evidence

of reflection on own work.

Personal growth and

awareness are not evident

and/or demonstrate an

impersonal experience. Lacks

personal insights, challenges,

inferences, and/or future

implications are overlooked.

 

Written Expression and

Formatting

 

15 (15%) – 15 (15%)

Well written and clearly

organized using standard

English, characterized by

elements of a strong writing

style and basically free from

 

11 (11%) – 14 (14%)

Above average writing style and

logically organized using

standard English with minor

errors in grammar,

punctuation, usage, and

 

6 (6%) – 10 (10%)

Average writing style that is

sometimes unclear and/or with

some errors in grammar,

punctuation, usage, and

spelling.

 

0 (0%) – 5 (5%)

Poor writing style lacking in

standard English, clarity,

language used, and/or frequent

errors in grammar,

punctuation, usage, and

 

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grammar, punctuation, usage,

and spelling errors.

 

spelling. spelling. Needs work.

 

APA 5 (5%) – 5 (5%)

No APA errors