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Practitioner Students (practitioner + student)
Kinds of Practitioner Students Selected AbstractsDeveloping A Database to Describe the Practice Patterns of Adult Nurse Practitioner StudentsJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 1 2000Nancy A. O'Connor Purpose: To describe the practice patterns of adult nurse practitioner students using a database composed of core health data elements and standardized nursing language. Design: Descriptive study of 3,733 patient visits documented by 19 adult nurse practitioner students in the academic year 1996,1997. Methods: A database was designed for documenting the full scope of practice of adult nurse practitioner students by use of core health data elements and the standardized nursing languages of NANDA and NIC. Nurse practitioner students used the database to document every linical encounter during their final clinical year of study. Most visits occurred in ambulatory care settings in a midwestern American city. Findingsx: Based on the American Medical Association's Evaluation/Management coding system, data indicated that 50% of visits were classified as problem focused, while 31.9% were expanded, 10% were detailed, and 8.1% were comprehensive. The most frequently occurring NANDA diagnoses were pain, health-seeking behavior, altered health maintenance, and knowledge deficit. The most frequently reported Nursing intervention classifications (NIC) were patient education, drug management, information management, and risk management. Conclusions: Using standardized nursing language to describe clinical encounters made visible the complex clinical decision-making patterns of adult nurse practitioner students. Systematic use of a database designed for documenting the full scope of practice of nurse practitioner students showed the applicability of standardized nursing language to advanced practice nursing contexts. [source] Teaching Spirituality to Nurse Practitioner Students: The Importance of the Interconnection of Mind, Body, and SpiritJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 3 2001Margie Maddox EdD SpirituaLism is dormant, not dead, Let us hope. How to revive it, to rekindle it into life, is the great question , Florence Nightingale PURPOSE To describe the author's experience in locating and implementing a spiritual assessment tool in teaching a first semester clinical nurse prac-titioner (NP) course. DATA SOURCES Selected articles and responses of NP students to the use of the tool. CONCLUSIONS A spiritual assessment is an important component of a comprehensive health assessment. The use of a formal structured protocol provides a framework for beginning students to become comfortable with sprirituality and spiritual assessments and to begin to recognize spiritual distress in clients. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The protocol used in the course is very extensive and might not be practical in a busy practice setting. An alternative, 4-point assessment is provided. [source] Developing A Database to Describe the Practice Patterns of Adult Nurse Practitioner StudentsJOURNAL OF NURSING SCHOLARSHIP, Issue 1 2000Nancy A. O'Connor Purpose: To describe the practice patterns of adult nurse practitioner students using a database composed of core health data elements and standardized nursing language. Design: Descriptive study of 3,733 patient visits documented by 19 adult nurse practitioner students in the academic year 1996,1997. Methods: A database was designed for documenting the full scope of practice of adult nurse practitioner students by use of core health data elements and the standardized nursing languages of NANDA and NIC. Nurse practitioner students used the database to document every linical encounter during their final clinical year of study. Most visits occurred in ambulatory care settings in a midwestern American city. Findingsx: Based on the American Medical Association's Evaluation/Management coding system, data indicated that 50% of visits were classified as problem focused, while 31.9% were expanded, 10% were detailed, and 8.1% were comprehensive. The most frequently occurring NANDA diagnoses were pain, health-seeking behavior, altered health maintenance, and knowledge deficit. The most frequently reported Nursing intervention classifications (NIC) were patient education, drug management, information management, and risk management. Conclusions: Using standardized nursing language to describe clinical encounters made visible the complex clinical decision-making patterns of adult nurse practitioner students. Systematic use of a database designed for documenting the full scope of practice of nurse practitioner students showed the applicability of standardized nursing language to advanced practice nursing contexts. [source] Clinical evaluation tools for dual track adult and gerontology nurse practitioner studentsJOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 12 2009Adult Health Nurse Practitioner Program, Director, FAANP Advanced Senior Lecturer, Valerie T. Cotter MSN Abstract Purpose: To describe the development of a dual track offering for the Adult Health and Gerontology Nurse Practitioner (AGNP) Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and share clinical evaluation tools used with nurse practitioner students in this curriculum. Data sources: Selected research and clinical articles. Conclusions: A variety of evaluation approaches are utilized in the AGNP student clinical performance evaluation. These incorporate the extended clinical practicum sequence for the dual track curriculum in addition to each individual program's objectives. Formative and summative evaluations include reflective logs, clinical documentation of patient encounters, preceptor evaluation, and faculty site visits. Self-evaluative skills of the student and quality faculty feedback are two additional integral components that facilitate learning outcomes in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains. Implications for practice: The summary of evaluation tools presented here is an example of how the AGNP Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing effectively measure student progress in a curriculum model for dual track enrollment. [source] | ||||||||||