Week 1 Assignment: CLINICAL SKILLS SELF-ASSESSMENT Before embarking on any pro

Week 1
Assignment: CLINICAL SKILLS SELF-ASSESSMENT
Before embarking on any professional or academic activity, it is important to understand the background, knowledge, and experience you bring to it. You might ask yourself, “What do I already know? What do I need to know? And what do I want to know?” This critical self-reflection is especially important for developing clinical skills such as those for advanced practice nursing. For this Assignment, assess where you are now in your clinical skill development and make plans for this practicum. Specifically, you will identify strengths and opportunities for improvement regarding the required practicum skills. In this practicum experience, when developing your goals and objectives, be sure to keep assessment and diagnostic reasoning in mind.
To prepare this assignment follow up the instructions below: Review the resources and clinical skills in the PMHNP Clinical Skills List document. It is recommended that you print out this document to serve as a guide throughout your practicum. Attached document
Review the “Developing SMART Goals” resource on how to develop goals and objectives that follow the SMART framework. Attached document Review the resources on nursing competencies and nursing theory and consider how these inform your practice.  Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form to complete this Assignment.  This form is attached to be completed Use the PMHNP Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form to complete the following: Rate yourself according to your confidence level performing the procedures identified on the Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form.  Based on your ratings, summarize your strengths and opportunities for improvement.   Based on your self-assessment and theory of nursing practice, develop 3–4 measurable goals and objectives for this practicum experience. Include them on the designated area of the form.   We need to use 2 nursing theories for this assignment. To develop Smart goals, keep in mind Is a goal-setting tool, which identifies five criteria for setting effective goals: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Goals built around these criteria are likely to be met because they are focused, realistic, and actionable. References The National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties. (2017). Nurse practitioner core competencies. Download Nurse practitioner core competencies.https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nonpf.org/resource/resmg…
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Note: Review the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Competencies.
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