Assignment: Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Part 5: Professional Development

In this week’s Discussion you were introduced to the concept of an academic portfolio to begin building your own brand. Portfolios have value that go beyond brand-building however. An academic and professional portfolio can also help you to build your own vision and mission and establish your development goals. In this regard, a portfolio becomes yet another tool in your toolbox as you build your success.

In this Assignment you will continue developing your Academic Success and Professional Development Plan by developing the fifth component: a portfolio for your academic and professional efforts.

To Prepare:

• Consider your goals for academic accomplishments while a student of the MSN program.

The Assignment:

• Using the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template in which you began to work on in Week 1, and have continued working on through this course, in Part 5, you will create a fully developed and accurate curriculum vitae (CV) based on your current education and professional background.

• Professional Development

• Clearly and accurately state in detail how to accurately and appropriately align one or more of your professional development goals with the University’s emphasis on social change.

Note: Add your work for this Assignment to the original document you began in the Week 1 Assignment, which was built off of the Academic Success and Professional Development Plan Template.

Assignment 2: Practicum – Week 8 Journal Entry

Part 1

Select a client whom you observed or counseled this week (other than the client used for this week’s Discussion). Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal:

Describe the client and identify any pertinent history or medical information, including prescribed medications.

Using the DSM-5, explain and justify your diagnosis for this client.

Explain whether existential-humanistic therapy would be beneficial with this client. Include expected outcomes based on this therapeutic approach.

Explain any legal and/or ethical implications related to counseling this client.

Support your approach with evidence-based literature.

Part 2

Reflect on your clinical supervision experiences. Then, address the following in your Practicum Journal.

How often are you receiving clinical supervision from your preceptor?

What are the sessions like?

What is the preceptor bringing to your attention?

How are you translating these sessions to your clinical practice?

NOTE: PLEASE SEE AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE ATTACHED Practicum Journal Template AND JOURNAL SAMPLE (TIME LOG & JOURNAL ENTRIES) FOR WRITING THIS ASSIGNMENT…..ALSO FOR THE TIME LOG AND JOURNAL ENTRIES, JUST MAKE UP A REASONABLE INFORMATION AND CLIENT INFORMATION IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING AND INCLUDE REFERENCES

Learning Resources

Required Readings

Wheeler, K. (Ed.). (2014). Psychotherapy for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse: A how-to guide for evidence-based practice (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

Chapter 10, “Humanistic-Existential and Solution-Focused Approaches to

Psychotherapy” (Review pp. 369–406)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Nagy, T. F. (2011). Ethics in psychotherapy. In Essential ethics for psychologists: A primer for understanding and mastering core issues (pp. 185–198). Washington, DC:

American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/12345-010

Purpose

This week’s graded topics relate to the following Course Outcomes (COs).

• CO 3: Plan prevention and population-focused interventions for vulnerable populations using professional clinical judgment and evidence-based practice. (PO 4 and 8)
• CO 6: Utilize a systems-based and collaborative approach to address factors that influence the health of a community and population health problems. (PO 2)

Discussion

Preparing for disasters, terrorist threats, or communicable disease outbreaks is an important part of public health nursing.

• Share an overview of a natural or human-made disaster that has occurred in your area in the last 20 years.
  • Include a URL and reference to the event. This may be a news article.
• Describe how your community was impacted.
• Describe lessons learned and changes made to preparedness.

professor’s comment: Hello Class,

The Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) website provides excellent information through their own Be Prepared web page for the National Preparedness Month every September and it’s a great resource to share as we are focusing on Disaster Preparedness in this discussion.

Post 9/11 the state health department had the county health departments develop Homeland Security Bioterrorism task forces to educate the community on how to prepare for a natural or other disaster. Health Departments developed teams of staff and invited key stakeholders from the community level to participate. One of the criteria to memberships was to demonstrate that each staff/stakeholder had a personal plan so when called to duty there were no worries about personal issues.

Now, ask yourself do you have a plan? Is this a sound plan and what needs to be part of the plan?

Here is a web site for you to answer some of those questions and prepare. Please share your thoughts and what you found on the site, see you in class!

Link – http://www.cdc.gov/Features/BeReady/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Please feel free to address these questions in your response.

1. What roles do culture and ethnicity play when implementing a population based intervention?
2. What can disaster workers do to alleviate some of the stress associated with their experience?
3. How do you think nurses can be more involved with disaster preparedness in your facility? Are there any barriers that prohibit involvement?

Thanks,
Dr. Petko

references: American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Nies, M. A., & McEwen, M. (2019). Community/public health nursing: Promoting the health of populations (7 ed.). St. Louis, MO: Elsevier.

APA format 3 references 1 from walden university library due Tuesday April 9 at 7pm EST  Please use scenario 1 for the discussion post

directions are below the scenario

 

Scenario 1: In-service for nursing staff

Orange City is a mid-sized town comprised mostly of elderly and retired Caucasian adults. Since the addition of a new highway, shopping mall, and various other small businesses, Orange City has seen a recent explosion of families moving into the area. Many of these families come from diverse backgrounds adding a new layer of cultural diversity to the city. Because the nurses at Orange City hospital have traditionally worked with the same type of clientele, many have been taken off guard when individuals deny certain health care measures due to religious or cultural beliefs. One day the nursing manager approaches you, the nurse educator, and asks if you could create an in-service that highlights the ways culture and religion can impact patient responses to medicine, preventative care, and treatment options.

 

To prepare:

• Reflect on this week’s Learning Resources, paying specific attention to the alignment between learning activities and learning objectives.
• Review this week’s media, Crafting Learning Objectives, to examine an effective approach to crafting meaningful, measurable learning objectives.
• Select one of the scenarios above for your posting. Then, consider the following questions:
  • What are the learning needs illustrated in the scenario?
  • What meaningful learning objectives could you craft to address these learning needs?
  • How could you use the learning objectives to create an educational, learner-centered activity?
  • What type of activity might you create to help your learners achieve the learning objectives?
  • How can you use the learning objectives to measure if learning has taken place?
• Using your answers to the questions above, create learning objectives and a learning activity applicable to your scenario.

Posting Directions: When creating your post, use the title: “Learning activity for Scenario _____.”