Journal Entry

 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.