Running Head: NRS 493-PRACTICUM REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON TELEHEALTH 1
NRS-493 Benchmark - Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Students maintained and submitted weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to explore
the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. This assignment combines
those entries into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into
current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
This final submission should also outline what students have discovered about their professional
practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced during the process, 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.
The final journal should address a variable combination of the following, while incorporating
your specific clinical practice experiences:
1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities
NRS-493 Benchmark - Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Student
Instructor
University
Course ID
Date
, NS 493-PRACTICUM REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON TELEHEALTH 2
Week 1
This was the first week that my mentor and I arranged to meet and plan on how I could
access the needed clinical and nursing resources to successfully undertake my capstone project.
To gain some useful clinical experiences, my mentor took me around the hospital facility and
introduced me to important staff members who would later assist in information gathering. While
here, I learned that some nurse educators are involved in data and information collection from
rural communities on diabetes mellitus patients. Most importantly, I visited the Telehealth and
Telemedicine department as it could play a crucial role during this practicum period. One thing
my mentor emphasized during this period was the need to use only evidence-based articles for
purposes of research, information, and data collection. I found out that in clinical and nursing
practice, adopting an evidence-based approach is the best in problem-solving (Melnyk et al.,
2005). Evidence-based practices has equally become the new standard in nursing practice as it
facilitates quality and timely decision-making processes. At the end of this week one, I had
managed to successfully build a very strong mentor-mentee relationship for that could be crucial
in realizing the goals set out in the practicum project.
Week 2
It was the week that I focused on the major aspects of my change proposal as I identified
key areas of research. I was assisted by my mentor to find out the major evidence-based articles
and studies related to rural communities affected by diabetes mellitus. This was also
characterized by finding out how telemedicine programs have assisted the rural population in
remote counties receive clinical and nursing care as they cannot easily access the recommended
affiliate and medical centers. I used the GCU Library as my primary point of reference to find
out the relevant scholarly articles. My mentor intimated to me that there are three major levels of
NRS-493 Benchmark - Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Students maintained and submitted weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to explore
the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. This assignment combines
those entries into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into
current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
This final submission should also outline what students have discovered about their professional
practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced during the process, 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.
The final journal should address a variable combination of the following, while incorporating
your specific clinical practice experiences:
1. New practice approaches
2. Interprofessional collaboration
3. Health care delivery and clinical systems
4. Ethical considerations in health care
5. Practices of culturally sensitive care
6. Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
7. Population health concerns
8. The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
9. Health policy
10. Leadership and economic models
11. Health disparities
NRS-493 Benchmark - Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Student
Instructor
University
Course ID
Date
, NS 493-PRACTICUM REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON TELEHEALTH 2
Week 1
This was the first week that my mentor and I arranged to meet and plan on how I could
access the needed clinical and nursing resources to successfully undertake my capstone project.
To gain some useful clinical experiences, my mentor took me around the hospital facility and
introduced me to important staff members who would later assist in information gathering. While
here, I learned that some nurse educators are involved in data and information collection from
rural communities on diabetes mellitus patients. Most importantly, I visited the Telehealth and
Telemedicine department as it could play a crucial role during this practicum period. One thing
my mentor emphasized during this period was the need to use only evidence-based articles for
purposes of research, information, and data collection. I found out that in clinical and nursing
practice, adopting an evidence-based approach is the best in problem-solving (Melnyk et al.,
2005). Evidence-based practices has equally become the new standard in nursing practice as it
facilitates quality and timely decision-making processes. At the end of this week one, I had
managed to successfully build a very strong mentor-mentee relationship for that could be crucial
in realizing the goals set out in the practicum project.
Week 2
It was the week that I focused on the major aspects of my change proposal as I identified
key areas of research. I was assisted by my mentor to find out the major evidence-based articles
and studies related to rural communities affected by diabetes mellitus. This was also
characterized by finding out how telemedicine programs have assisted the rural population in
remote counties receive clinical and nursing care as they cannot easily access the recommended
affiliate and medical centers. I used the GCU Library as my primary point of reference to find
out the relevant scholarly articles. My mentor intimated to me that there are three major levels of
