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,
“(Please see Attachment)” 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, “(Please see Attachment)” and
consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.
Consider the patient activities you have experienced in your practicum experience and reflect on your
observations and experiences. “(please make up something reasonable here)”
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. (Please see attachment for self assessment)”
Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was
most challenging about each?

1. What did you learn from this experience?
2. What resources were available?
3. What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?
4. What would you do differently?
5. How are you managing patient flow and volume?
6. How can you apply your growing skillset to be a social change agent within your community?
   Communicating and Feedback
7. Reflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge, and communicate those efforts to your
   Preceptor.
   Answer the questions:
8. How am I doing? What is missing?
9. Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.