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Second Journal Entry – As if you are a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner student doing the clinical preceptorship in Private Clinic and Community Pediatric Clinic (both in Kern County, CA).
Critical reflection on 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 your final Journal Entry (Journal Entry #2):
• Reflect on your Clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement (uploaded also).
• Reflect on your Practicum experience, the patients you have seen, and the conditions you have diagnosed and treated. In addition, review the First Journal Entry (uploaded also).
Write a 3-page Journal Entry that includes responses to the following:
• Explain what most excited and/or concerned you throughout your pediatric clinical experience.
• Discuss how your personal definition of ethical care of pediatric patients has changed or stayed the same.
• How has your understanding of cultural competence and inclusivity influenced your assessment of children and their families?
• Explain how your understanding of vulnerable populations has changed and how it may have influenced the assessments you conducted during your practicum.
• Assess your progress in accomplishing the goals and objectives you developed in Week 1 for the Practicum experience.
• Based on your Practicum experience, refine your existing goals and/or develop new goals for your continued education and professional practice.
• Be sure to consider the NAPNAP Position Statement on Age Parameters for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Practice (uploaded also).
Use at least 4 resources in your response. Make sure you cite the sources using APA format (7th edition).