Week 12- Practicum Journal: Example

Write a journal entry of 750-1,500 words on the subject of serving, including the following:

Practicum Activities Reflection: Provide observations and thoughts on the activities in your practicum setting during Weeks 10 & 11.

Application of Leadership: Identify three to five personal values or characteristics that you believe are critical components of a good leader, such as honesty, compassion, or fairness. How do you express those values in your professional life?

Practicum Project Preparation:
Create an evaluation and adjustment plan

for the practicum project.

Leadership Video Reflection:
Reflect on at least two things you learned from the “Servant Leadership – Issue of Example” video



https://youtu.be/Z8yMNFMp0k8

Use the “Leadership Journal Template” to complete this assignment.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Rubric

35 Total Points=

Practicum Activities Reflection

8.75 points

Application of Leadership

7 points

Practicum Project Preparation

7 points

Leadership Video Reflection

7 points

Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

1.75 points

Format/Documentation 

3.5 points

Practicum Project Plan/Proposal

The setting for my practicum project is within the Wound Care Department at my current employer, which has been scoring poorly when it comes to communication. I will be working with the department director Ms. Sylvia Coleman, and the project aim is to promote excellent communication within the department in order to provide an improvement on patient satisfaction ratings for the hospital. We need to give people a reason to care in order to promote a more pleasant and less stressful place to work we needed to work on the communication process amongst staff members and patients (Mazhisham et al., 2021). I found that a lot of the unsatisfactory comments regarding care were coming from the communication process within the department. 

The tools I used were the different tools that the hospital uses which were the discharged patient surveys as well as inpatient score cards. I will be using the information given to decipher the problems in communication that are most common from each of the surveys collected within the last 3 months and compare them with the patient surveys prior to the change of ownership. Ongoing inpatient surveys using score cards will be used, along with discharge patient surveys to obtain the sustainability of this project. I chose to work with the Wound Care Department because I conducted some brief research and found that there were a lot of comments regarding gaps in communication in the patient surveys that were collected from their specific patients. Coincidently, these comments increased after the hospital went through a change of ownership. In order to gain a better rating from patients receiving wound care I will have to put in quite a bit of work on revamping the communication tools used for them. The current tool appeared very confusing to me, and by improving this tool it will help reconcile individual patient wound care orders, improve patient satisfaction, and increase the quality of care.  

Leadership Journal Template

Name:

Weeks Covering:

Preceptor/Mentor:

Clinical/Practicum Site:

Hours Worked (past 2 weeks):___

Total Hours: ____/150 total of all hours worked up to this point

Practicum Activities Reflection:

Discuss some of your activities with your preceptor/mentor, what projects you are working on, and what observations about leadership you have made during the past two weeks. This does not need to be a step by step diary. Instead, this is a place to reflect on how your observations and activities have compared to what you have learned in your courses thus far.

Application of Leadership:

Each Leadership Journal assignment will include specific questions for you to answer.

Practicum Project Preparation:

Each Leadership Journal assignment will include specific questions for you to answer.

Leadership Video Reflection:

Each Leadership Journal assignment will include specific questions for you to answer.

References

(Please make sure all references are in APA format.)

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