Bi-weekly Practicum Journaling

Throughout this course you have been describing your clinical activities in your journal. This week you will focus on a specific topic related to your practicum experience.

Write a brief (300-word) personal reflection describing interprofessional collaboration during your experiences in the clinical setting. Reflect on your efforts as a team member to move a client along the health continuum.

Please consider the following areas:

What professions did you interact with?

What challenges did the interprofessional team had to overcome to deliver competent care?

How did the interprofessional care enhance the status of a client/population?

How might this experience affect your future practice?

Evaluation of Plan Effectiveness Criteria

Over the past nine weeks, you selected an aggregate and conducted a risk assessment of its health, developed a care plan to address those health risks, planned to implement one intervention in a small group from the aggregate, and considered the effectiveness of the intervention on the health of the small group. It is time now for you to present your final submission of this Capstone project.

There are two parts to this assignment.

Part 1: A 10-15 slide power point presentation addressing the following:

A detailed description of the aggregate including strengths and weaknesses

A risk assessment of the aggregate

Diagnoses based on the risk assessment

A detailed care plan for the aggregate

A description of at least one intervention that was implemented (or the implementation itself if presented as a power point)

Part 2: In a Microsoft Word document of 3-4 pages formatted in APA style, you will describe the evaluation process of the intervention(s) you implemented.

Include the following in your paper:

An evaluation of the effectiveness of the intervention:

Did I implement the intervention as planned? If not, what were the reasons?

Interview/measure outcomes for two or three members of your group to determine/measure the effectiveness of the intervention(s).

Include transcripts of the interviews with the participants from the group in the appendix of your paper.

Finally, compare the projected effectiveness of your plan before implementation with the actual effectiveness after implementation.

Are there visible signs of success (for example, reduced health issues)? If yes, describe. If no, describe what signs you would anticipate and rationale for no change.

You may want to use the responses to the above two criteria to measure the actual effectiveness of the intervention.

Conclusion

Cited at least two scholarly references

Site: North Dade Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

Aggregate: North Miami Beach

Population: Elderly 65 and older

Topic: Nutrition and Weight Management

Health Risks Discussed in Previous Projects: Health risks in urban areas, Hepatitis A, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Malnutrition and Limited Health facilities, differences among different beliefs (Jehovah witness refuse to accept blood donations), disaster preparedness (hurricane Ian), and copd – primary and secondary treatments