Explaination of Practicum project

This practicum experience prepares the student to apply advanced nurse specialty role and concepts to patient-facing situations. Under the preceptorship of an expert nurse, the student will focus on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a patient-focused project in a community or clinical setting. During this preceptorship the student will have the opportunity for professional socialization into this role, through engagement in collaboration, consultation, and referral with other disciplines involved in clinical practice. Exploration of leadership and learning/teaching styles and evaluation and application of evidence-based strategies will be encompassed in this practicum experience.

Write an 3-5 pages APA-formatted essay about what you did during your practicum experience. Though all practica are different, there are common questions to answer.

Please consider these prompts when writing your essay:

• Describe the educational activity or change of process that you created and why it was significant to patient or community health care. 
• Identify how you evaluated your educational activity or change of process for quality improvement, and discuss why this method was used. 
• Describe how you collaborated with nurses and other health care professionals during your practicum and how it affected you. 
• Discuss what resources you used to gain an in-depth knowledge or expertise in an area of nursing you were not already familiar with before the practicum. 
• Thinking about the role your preceptor played in your experience, describe what you learned about precepting in this practicum.
• Describe how you have changed as a nurse as a result of your practicum experience. 

My project was on postpartum hemorrhage, a teaching project was conducted to a group of nursing students. A pre-test was administered and then a 20 minute presentation given to 6 groups of 5 students and then a post test was administered. The students were able to feel a firm fundus in the simulation lab as well as weigh different chux with bloody substances on them to calculate and quantify blood loss. The average of the pretest was 68% and the average of the posttest was 86%. Included in the additional materials are papers regarding progress of implementation of project and material used for teaching.