Discuss your professional aims and your proposed practicum objectives with your Preceptor to ascertain if the necessary resources are available at your practicum site.

Assignment 2:
Practicum Experience Plan (PEP)
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As you establish your goals and
objectives for this course, you are committing to an organized plan that will
frame your practicum experience in a clinical setting, including planned
activities, assessment, and achievement of defined outcomes. In particular,
they must address the categories of clinical reasoning, quality in your
clinical specialty, and interpersonal collaborative practice.
For this Assignment,
you will consider the areas you aim to focus on to gain practical experience as
an advanced practice nurse. Then, you will develop a Practicum Experience Plan
(PEP) containing the objectives you will fulfill in order to achieve your
aims. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and
objectives, be sure to keep psychiatric assessment and diagnostic reasoning in
mind.
To Prepare
Review your Clinical Skills
Self-Assessment Form you submitted last week and think about areas for
which you would like to gain application-level experience and/or continued
growth as an advanced practice nurse. How can your experiences in the
Practicum help you achieve these aims? 
Review the information
related to developing objectives provided in this week’s Learning
Resources.  Your practicum learning objectives that you want to
achieve during your Practicum experience must be:

Specific 
Measurable 
Attainable 
Results-focused 
Time-bound
Reflective of the
higher-order domains of Bloom’s taxonomy (i.e., application level and
above) 

Note: Please make sure
your objectives are outlined in your Practicum Experience Plan (PEP). 
Discuss your professional
aims and your proposed practicum objectives with your Preceptor
to ascertain if the necessary resources are available at your practicum
site.
Assignment
Record the required
information in each area of the Practicum Experience Plan template, including
three to four (3–4) practicum learning objectives you will use to
facilitate your learning during the practicum experience

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