Journal EntryPhoto Credit: Image by Free-Photos from PixabayCritical reflection of your growth and development during your practicum experience in a clinical setting has the benefit of helping you to identify opportunities for improvement in your clinical skills, while also recognizing your strengths and successes. Use this Journal to reflect on your clinical strengths and opportunities for improvement, the progress you made, and what insights you will carry forward into your next practicumTo PrepareRefer to the “Advanced Nursing Practice Competencies and Guidelines” found in the Week 1 Learning Resources, and consider the quality measures or indicators advanced nursing practice nurses must possess in your specialty of interest.Refer to your “Clinical Skills Self-Assessment Form” you submitted in Week 1, and consider your strengths and opportunities for improvement.Refer to your Patient Log in Meditrek, and consider the patient activities you have experienced in your practicum experience. Reflect on your observations and experiences.In 450–500 words, address the following:Learning From Experiences Revisit the goals and objectives from your Practicum Experience Plan. Explain the degree to which you achieved each during the practicum experience.Reflect on the three (3) most challenging patients you encountered during the practicum experience. What was most challenging about each?What did you learn from this experience?What resources did you have available?What evidence-based practice did you use for the patients?What new skills are you learning?What would you do differently?How are you managing patient flow and volume? Communicating and FeedbackReflect on how you might improve your skills and knowledge and how to communicate those efforts to your Preceptor.Answer the questions: How am I doing? What is missing?Reflect on the formal and informal feedback you received from your Preceptor.

This speech must be recorded in front of an audience of at least 4 (four) in-person adults. The presence of the audience must be made clear during the recording. See the syllabus for details/requirements. Finally, remember that you will have two audiences for this speech, the virtual class online and your live, in-person audience. Your speech should be tailored for both audiences.

Suggestions for Preparation
Select a topic that you are already familiar, and that you can quickly gather additional information on. Keep in mind the importance of clarity. This is largely achieved through effective organization. Do not have too many main points. Confine your speech to three to five main ideas and group the other points under these. Clarify the relationship between your points. Keep your speech moving ahead according to a well-developed plan; do not jump back and forth from one idea to another. Practice the speech several times prior to recording but do not memorize it. Remember, conducting an asynchronous recording involves different variables.  Time your speech when practicing. After you have written your outline, set it aside and practice speaking from brief notes. It is only at this point that you should start recording. 

Make sure you follow those steps carefully otherwise you will not earn credit:

Reminder: This speech must be recorded in front of an audience of at least 4 (four) adults. The presence of the audience must be made clear during the recording (see the speech recording requirements at the end of the syllabus).
Record your test attempts/dry runs in your device and leave them in unpublished status.
Once you have the final version of your speech ready, please submit the video submission you want graded via the Informative speech discussion board.
Please make sure you label the final version of your recording in the following format: last name-informative (e.g. Fadem-informative).

Assignment: Policy/Regulation Fact SheetAs a professional nurse, you are expected to apply your expertise to patient care. On occasion, you will also be expected to share that expertise.With evolving technology and continuous changes to regulations designed to keep up these changes, there is usually a need to share information and expertise to inform colleagues, leadership, patients, and other stakeholders.In this Assignment, you will study a recent nursing informatics-related healthcare policy, and you will share the relevant details via a fact sheet designed to inform and educate.To Prepare:Review the Resources on healthcare policy and regulatory/legislative topics related to health and nursing informatics.Consider the role of the nurse informaticist in relation to a healthcare organization’s compliance with various policies and regulations, such as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).Research and select one health or nursing informatics policy (within the past 5 years) or regulation for further study.The Assignment: (1 page not including the title and reference page)Create a 1-page fact sheet that your healthcare organization could hypothetically use to explain the health or nursing informatics policy/regulation you selected. Your fact sheet should address the following:Briefly and generally explain the policy or regulation you selected.Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on system implementation.Address the impact of the policy or regulation you selected on clinical care, patient/provider interactions, and workflow.Highlight organizational policies and procedures that are/will be in place at your healthcare organization to address the policy or regulation you selected. Be specific.Use APA format and include a title page, in-text citations, and reference page.Use the Safe Assign Drafts to check your match percentage before submitting your work.

Please submit a 750 word Essay #1 about your interview with a healthcare professional who has worked as an expert witness in a medical malpractice, personal injury or worker’s compensation case. The focus of this essay should be the expert’s retention and preparation for the deposition, not what happened in subsequent court testimony which is the subject of Essays #2. Use the following questions as a springboard for your interview and expand from there: Was the expert subpoenaed or retained? Was the person a fact witness with first-hand knowledge of the case (such as a treating physician) or was the person hired as an independent expert with experience but no first-hand personal knowledge of the case (and may have testified about injuries, causation of injury, or the defendant’s standard of care)? Did the expert advertise their expert services? How did the lawyer find them? What did they charge? How did they determine their fees? What did the person do to prepare for the deposition? What materials were reviewed? What research, if any, was done? Was a report written? Notes taken of reviewed materials such as medical records or deposition transcripts? What restrictions, if any, did the attorney place on the person’s preparation? What advice did the person give you about case preparation for your benefit as a future nurse expert? Was there a pre-deposition meeting with counsel? What was said and done during such a meeting? Did the person believe the meeting was adequate to prepare him/her for the experience of giving a deposition? Where did the deposition occur? Who was present? Were objections made? Was there a fight over what information the person would provide? Who asked the questions? Were they leading questions or open-ended? Did the witness make any changes to the deposition transcript? What advice did the person give you for your own deposition testimony as a future nurse expert?

1.Consider the Japanese-American internment during WWII and how war undermined basic freedoms for Japanese Americans. Two thirds were native-born citizens. In February 1942, FDR issued Executive Order 9066 to order the relocation of all persons of Japanese descent. 110,000 Japanese-Americans, men women and children left their homes to live in large relocation camps behind barbed wire fences and armed guards.
2.Explore this website to understand more about the internment experience.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/internment_experience.cfm
3.Examine 15 to 20 images, read  15 to 20 interviews or letters  and make a note of the documents  pertaining to the Internment of the Japanese people during World War II.  
4.Construct an essay that considers the Japanese experience.
Make sure you have a  thesis statement. This is an argument, your point for writing the paper.
When you have completed the essay please read the following AND
include a statement that you have indeed read it with the submission.
PLEASE READ: Outline for grading your paper:
Check if you can answer “yes” to each of the following:
Title
         Do I have a title?  ( A good one engages the reader’s interest)
Introduction:
1.Do I have a thesis statement?
2. Is this thesis statement a single sentence that clearly articulates  my argument at the end of the introductory paragraph? 
3.Do I ground my thesis in historical context?
Body of the Paper:
4. Do I  use my thesis to drive the material in the body of my paper ?
5.Do I write topic sentences?
6. Do I present and analyze evidence?
7.Do I show an understanding of the material?
8.Do I utilize specific references rather than generalizations?
9.Does my conclusion encapsulate my argument?
10.Is my paper free from grammatical errors and typos?
11.Have I cited my material according to the Chicago Manual of  Style?