NURS-FPX-NURS-FPX4900/220700

Practicum Focus Sheet, Assessment 1
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Practicum Focus Sheet
Assessment 1
Note: Expect to spend at least 2 hours with the patient, family, or group you’ll be working with during this portion of your practicum, assessing the health problem you’ve defined from a
leadership, collaboration, communication, change management, and policy perspective. This
includes time you may elect to spend in consultation with subject matter or industry experts.
You’ll report on the results of this work as part of your next assessment.
For this portion of your practicum, consider the following:
• Identify the patient, family, or group you intend to work with.
• Think about what you hope to learn.
o What’s your rationale for choosing this particular patient, family, or group?
• Consider how you’ll present your ideas about the problem to the patient, family, or group
and convince them of its significance.
• Which leadership, collaboration, communication, and change management skills will you
need to apply in order to work successfully with your chosen patient, family, or group?
• Which potential barriers do you foresee in presenting the problem to this patient, family,
or group?
• Which change management strategies might you employ to overcome these barriers?
o For example, you might consider creating a sense of urgency supported by data or
policy requirements.

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Assessing the Problem: Leadership, Collaboration, Communication, Change
Management, and Policy Considerations Scoring Guide
CRITERIA NON-
PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Define a patient,
family, or population
health problem
that’s relevant to
personal and
professional
practice.
Does not define
a patient, family,
or population
health problem.
Attempts to define a
patient, family, or
population health
problem.
Defines a patient,
family, or
population health
problem that’s
relevant to
personal and
professional
practice.
Clearly and succinctly defines a
patient, family, or population
health problem that’s relevant to
personal and professional
practice. Fully substantiates the
presence and relevance of the
problem.
Analyze evidence
from peer-reviewed
literature and
professional
sources that
describes and
guides nursing
actions related to a
defined patient,
family, or population
problem.
Does not cite
evidence from
peer-reviewed
literature and
professional
sources that
describes and
guides nursing
actions related to
a defined
patient, family, or
population
problem.
Cites evidence from
peer-reviewed
literature and
professional
sources that
describes and
guides nursing
actions related to a
defined patient,
family, or population
problem.
Analyzes evidence
from peer-reviewed
literature and
professional
sources that
describes and
guides nursing
actions related to a
defined patient,
family, or
population
problem.
Analyzes evidence from peer-
reviewed literature and
professional sources that
describes and guides nursing
actions related to a defined
patient, family, or population
problem. Applies relevant,
unambiguous criteria for
evaluating the evidence, and
exhibits clear insight into
potential barriers to evidence-
based practice and theoretical
guiding frameworks.
Explain how state
board nursing
practice standards
and/or
organizational or
governmental
policies could affect
a defined patient,
family, or population
problem.
Does not identify
state board
nursing practice
standards and/or
organizational or
governmental
policies that
could affect a
defined patient,
family, or
population
problem.
Attempts to identify
state board nursing
practice standards
and/or
organizational or
governmental
policies that could
affect a defined
patient, family, or
population problem.
Explains how state
board nursing
practice standards
and/or
organizational or
governmental
policies could
affect a defined
patient, family, or
population
problem.
Provides an explanation, with
examples, of how state board
nursing practice standards
and/or organizational or
governmental policies could
affect a defined patient, family,
or population problem, based on
a perceptive and coherent
synthesis of current literature.
Provides clear insight into how
policy affects nursing scope of
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CRITERIA NON-
PERFORMANCE BASIC PROFICIENT DISTINGUISHED
Propose leadership
strategies to
improve outcomes,
patient-centered
care, and the patient
experience related
to a defined patient,
family, or population
problem
and document the
practicum hours
spent with these
individuals or group
in the Capella
Academic Portal
Volunteer
Experience Form.
Does not
propose
leadership
strategies to
improve
outcomes,
patient-centered
care, and the
patient
experience
related to a
defined patient,
family, or
population
problem, and
does not
document
practicum hours
in Capella
Academic Portal
Volunteer
Experience
Form.
Proposes leadership
strategies that are
not clearly related to
a defined patient,
family, or population
problem or which
are not likely to
significantly improve
outcomes, patient-
centered care, and
the patient
experience, and/or
does not document
practicum hours in
Capella Academic
Portal Volunteer
Experience Form.
Proposes
leadership
strategies to
improve outcomes,
patient-centered
care, and the
patient experience
related to the
defined patient,
family, or
population problem
and documents the
practicum hours
spent with these
individuals or
group in the
Capella Academic
Portal Volunteer
Experience Form.
Proposes leadership strategies,
supported by examples, to
improve outcomes, patient-
centered care, and the patient
experience related to a defined
patient, family, or population
problem. Exhibits clear insight
into the necessary role of
leadership and the need for
collaboration, communication,
and change management in
addressing the problem. and
Documents the practicum hours
spent with these individuals or
group in the Capella Academic
Portal Volunteer Experience
Form.
Organize content so
ideas flow logically
with smooth
transitions.
Does not
organize content
for ideas to flow
logically with
smooth
transitions.
Organizes content
with some logical
flow and smooth
transitions.
Organizes content
so ideas flow
logically with
smooth transitions.
Organizes content so clarity is
enhanced and all ideas flow
logically with smooth transitions.
Apply APA style and
formatting to
scholarly writing.
Does not apply
APA style and
formatting to
scholarly writing.
Applies APA style
and formatting to
scholarly writing
incorrectly and/or
inconsistently,
detracting
noticeably from
good scholarship.
Applies APA style
and formatting to
scholarly writing.
Applies APA style and
formatting to scholarly writing.
Exhibits strict and nearly
flawless adherence to stylistic
conventions, document
structure, and source
attributions.

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