Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
My preceptor, Sara Roshan, and I discussed and focused on two different topics this week. We discussed various ethical considerations in health care as well as culturally sensitive care practices. The four main ethical principles in healthcare are autonomy, beneficence, justice, and non-maleficence. Working with my preceptor has taught me that each patient has the right to make decisions based solely on his or her personal beliefs and values. With this understanding, I also came to recognize that cultural and spiritual beliefs can play a role when a patient makes their own decisions about their health care and treatment plan. Ethical concerns about the implementation of the changing practice are also important key issues to consider. Clinical practices advocated for healthcare workers to be concerned about ethical issues that could lead to an outlined procedure (Rusch et al., 2019). Healthcare providers are responsible for improving their patients’ health and preventing anything that could harm the health of patients in their care.
On the other hand, if the implementation of sanitation practices is detrimental to improving the health and welfare of their patients, an ethical issue may arise as a result of healthcare professionals’ failure to follow managerial sanitation practice procedures. Such an ethical issue falls under the theory-practice and ethics gap category. Tschirch and colleagues (2017). The practicum demonstrated that failure to follow healthcare delivery procedures could lead to ethical issues, and healthcare providers must always consider adherence to practice procedures.
Patients frequently make decisions based on their cultural background. In nursing school, I learned about Jehovah’s Witness’ cultural beliefs that blood transfusion and blood products are bad in the sense that they are dirty and that their own body will provide the blood they require. We must respect our patients’ beliefs and decisions about their care, whether or not we agree with them. Nurses, doctors, and other members of the healthcare team must recognize the patient’s ethical concerns. This can have an effect on the patient’s outcome and provide them with the comfort they require. This week has been extremely hectic due to research for my change topic project. This week, I developed my PICOT question and worked on my four objectives and rationales for my topic.
References
Rusch, L., Manz, J., Hercinger, M., Oertwich, A., & McCafferty, K. (2019). Nurse Preceptor Perceptions of Nursing Student Progress Toward Readiness for Practice. Nurse educator, 44(1), 34–37. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNE.0000000000000546
Tschirch, P., Leyden, K., Dufrene, C., & Land, S. (2017). Introducing Perioperative Nursing as a Foundation for Clinical Practice. AORN journal, 106(2), 121–127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.06.004
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Question 
Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:
Students are required to maintain weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to combine into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
In your journal, you will reflect on the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. The journal should address a variable combination of the following, depending on your specific practice immersion clinical experiences:
- New practice approaches
- Intraprofessional collaboration
- Healthcare delivery and clinical systems
- Ethical considerations in health care
- Population health concerns
- The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
- Health policy
- Leadership and economic models
- Health disparities
Students will outline what they have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.
APA style is required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines.
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