Clinical Time Log and Journal
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Time Log
Total: Weeks 1-3
Total Weeks 4-7
Total: Weeks 8-11
Total Practicum Hours Completed for Course
WK |
Date |
Time |
# of hour |
Learner Objective *Bloom’s Taxonomy |
Course Objective (Walden) |
AACN Essential**
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Projected Goal |
Activities Completed |
Status of completion
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1-3 | Identify a clinical problem: establish the current causes, manifestations, and strategies used to address nursing shortage in the practicum site.
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Translate research findings to direct evidence-based nursing practice. | Clinical Scholarship and Analytical Methods for Evidence-Based Practice (Essential III) | Identify clinical issues hampering patient care as the basis for practice outcomes improvement.
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Meet the teams associated with the identified practice problem and seek guidance.
Explore current, scholarly literature about nursing shortage: causes, impacts, and possible solutions. |
Done
Done |
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4-7 | Identify the best evidence-based practices that will be used to effectively address the nursing shortage while responding to the inefficiencies of the current strategies. | Translate research findings to direct evidence-based nursing practice (Walden University, 2022). | Essential I: Scientific underpinnings for practice. | Consult and appraise research on evidence-based strategies to address nursing shortage.
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Exploring and appraising current, scholarly research relevant to nursing shortage. | Done | |||
4-7 | Present the proposed strategies to stakeholders for consultations and approval. | Advocate for the advancement of nursing and healthcare policy through sharing of science-based knowledge with healthcare policy makers. | Essential VI: Interprofessional Collaboration for Improving Patient and Population Health Outcomes (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2006). | Share evidence-based findings and involve teams in generating feasible and lasting solutions. | Compiling a draft of the findings and meeting stakeholders. | Done | |||
8-11 | Adopt the proposed strategies as organizational policy. | Develop organizational system changes for quality improvement in healthcare delivery in response to local and/or global community needs (Walden University, 2022). | Essential V: Health Care Policy for Advocacy in Health Care. | Implement evidence-based findings to guide practice change. | None | Not yet done |
Journal
Since starting the practicum, my main concentration has been identifying the clinical probl