PRAC_6665 Week11 Assignment CONTROVERSY ASSOCIATED WITH DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

Assignment: Journal Entry

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Critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your strengths and successes.

Use this Journal to reflect on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement, the progress you made, and what insights you will carry forward into your next practicum.

To Prepare

· Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources, and consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.

· Refer to your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form you submitted in Week 1, and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.

· Refer to your Patient Log in Meditrek, and consider the patient activities you have experienced in your practicum experience and reflect on your observations and experiences.

Journal Entry (450–500 words)

Learning From Experiences

· Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.

· Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?

· What did you learn from this experience?

· What resources were available?

· What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?

· What would you do differently?

· How are you managing patient flow and volume?

· How can you apply your growing skillset to be a social change agent within your community?

Communicating and Feedback

· Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge, and communicate those efforts to your Preceptor.

· Answer the questions: How am I doing? What is missing?

· Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.

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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE CLASS

Discussion Questions (DQ)

Initial responses to the DQ should address all components of the questions asked, include a minimum of one scholarly source, and be at least 250 words.

Successful responses are substantive (i.e., add something new to the discussion, engage others in the discussion, well-developed idea) and include at least one scholarly source.

One or two sentence responses, simple statements of agreement or “good post,” and responses that are off-topic will not count as substantive. Substantive responses should be at least 150 words.

I encourage you to incorporate the readings from the week (as applicable) into your responses.

Controversy Associated With Dissociative Disorders

The DSM-5-TR is a diagnostic tool. It has evolved over the decades, as have the classifications and criteria within its pages. It is used not just for diagnosis, however, but also for billing, access to services, and legal cases. Not all practitioners are in agreement with the content and structure of the DSM-5-TR, and dissociative disorders are one such area. These disorders can be difficult to distinguish and diagnose. There is also controversy in the field over the legitimacy of certain dissociative disorders, such as dissociative identity disorder, which was formerly called multiple personality disorder.

In this Assignment, you will examine the controversy surrounding dissociative disorders. You will also explore clinical, ethical, and legal considerations pertinent to working with patients with these disorders.

Resources

Before tackling this assignment, it is essential to review this week’s learning resources on dissociative disorders. Moreover, you should engage in research within the Walden Library to examine the controversies related to dissociative disorders. This entails finding at least three scholarly articles that can substantiate your assignment.

The Assignment (2–3 pages)

1. Explanation of Controversy: Your assignment should start by elucidating the controversies surrounding dissociative disorders.

2. Professional Beliefs: Next, present your professional beliefs regarding dissociative disorders, substantiated by at least three scholarly references from the literature.

3. Therapeutic Relationship Strategies: Elaborate on strategies for maintaining a therapeutic relationship with a client who may present with a dissociative disorder.

4. Ethical and Legal Considerations: Lastly, expound on the ethical and legal considerations associated with dissociative disorders that should be integrated into your practice, and explain why they hold significance.

The assignment should be submitted by Day 7 of Week 9, following the provided submission instructions.

Journal Entry: Learning From Experiences

In this journal entry, the focus is on critical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting. This reflection helps identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills and recognize your strengths and successes.

To Prepare

1. Refer to the “Population-Focused Nurse Practitioner Competencies” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources. Consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.

2. Refer to your Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form submitted in Week 1 and ponder your strengths and opportunities for improvement.

3. Review your Patient Log in Meditrek, reflecting on the patient activities you have encountered during your practicum experience and the observations and experiences gained.

Journal Entry (450–500 words)

Learning From Experiences

1. Revisit the goals and objectives outlined in your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the extent to which you achieved each goal during the practicum experience.

2. Reflect on the three most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum. Describe what was particularly challenging about each case.

3. Share your learnings from these experiences.

4. Discuss the resources available to you during these challenging encounters.

5. Detail the evidence-based practices you applied to these patients.

6. Reflect on what you would do differently if faced with similar challenges in the future.

7. Consider how you are managing patient flow and volume.

8. Discuss how your expanding skillset can position you as a social change agent within your community.

Communicating and Feedback

9. Reflect on ways to enhance your skills and knowledge and how you can communicate these efforts to your Preceptor.

10. Answer the questions: “How am I doing? What is missing?”

11. Reflect on the formal and informal feedback received from your Preceptor.

The journal entry should be 450-500 words and should be submitted according to the provided submission instructions.

Weekly Participation

Your initial responses to the mandatory DQ do not count toward participation and are graded separately.

In addition to the DQ responses, you must post at least one reply to peers (or me) on three separate days, for a total of three replies.

Participation posts do not require a scholarly source/citation (unless you cite someone else’s work).

Part of your weekly participation includes viewing the weekly announcement and attesting to watching it in the comments. These announcements are made to ensure you understand everything that is due during the week.

APA Format and Writing Quality

Familiarize yourself with APA format and practice using it correctly. It is used for most writing assignments for your degree. Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for APA paper templates, citation examples, tips, etc. Points will be deducted for poor use of APA format or absence of APA format (if required).

Cite all sources of information! When in doubt, cite the source. Paraphrasing also requires a citation.

I highly recommend using the APA Publication Manual, 6th edition.

Use of Direct Quotes

I discourage overutilization of direct quotes in DQs and assignments at the Masters’ level and deduct points accordingly.

As Masters’ level students, it is important that you be able to critically analyze and interpret information from journal articles and other resources. Simply restating someone else’s words does not demonstrate an understanding of the content or critical analysis of the content.

It is best to paraphrase content and cite your source.

LopesWrite Policy

For assignments that need to be submitted to LopesWrite, please be sure you have received your report and Similarity Index (SI) percentage BEFORE you do a “final submit” to me.

Once you have received your report, please review it. This report will show you grammatical, punctuation, and spelling errors that can easily be fixed. Take the extra few minutes to review instead of getting counted off for these mistakes.

Review your similarities. Did you forget to cite something? Did you not paraphrase well enough? Is your paper made up of someone else’s thoughts more than your own?

Visit the Writing Center in the Student Success Center, under the Resources tab in LoudCloud for tips on improving your paper and SI score.

Late Policy

The university’s policy on late assignments is 10% penalty PER DAY LATE. This also applies to late DQ replies.

Please communicate with me if you anticipate having to submit an assignment late. I am happy to be flexible, with advance notice. We may be able to work out an extension based on extenuating circumstances.

If you do not communicate with me before submitting an assignment late, the GCU late policy will be in effect.

I do not accept assignments that are two or more weeks late unless we have worked out an extension.

As per policy, no assignments are accepted after the last day of class. Any assignment submitted after midnight on the last day of class will not be accepted for grading.

Communication

Communication is so very important. There are multiple ways to communicate with me:

Questions to Instructor Forum: This is a great place to ask course content or assignment questions. If you have a question, there is a good chance one of your peers does as well. This is a public forum for the class.

Individual Forum: This is a private forum to ask me questions or send me messages. This will be checked at least once every 24 hours.

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