would be one of my teaching lessons that I would plan and deliver to work towards my clinical project goal of implementing at least two lessons into the existing educational materials. Once my preceptor and I established a time and date that we felt would work well with orientation, I facilitated getting the simulation lab secured for this learning activity. I also began gathering materials to help me in not only designing the simulation activity, but also in evaluation of the activity and our learning outcomes. I utilized a teaching outline that the staff development and simulation coordinator sent to me, in order to begin writing my teaching plan for the simulation. Insights/Discoveries/Reflection Overall, I felt quite productive this week. To start, I enjoyed attending the Nurse Practice Council meeting and hearing more about was going on organizationally. Although I had not included roles and activities such as this in my practicum planning guide, I did hope that I would have opportunities to gain competency in the change agent and leadership role for the nursing professional development specialist. I believe attending this meeting and volunteering to serve on the subcommittee for modifications to the professional practice model has been beneficial in gaining competency in these roles. It was also really beneficial to gain a better perspective of how the organization functions and how different projects have an impact throughout the organization. I liked being able to meet new people, especially those names that I recognized, and see how they performed their role. Finally, I also thought it was important to see the way communication flowed in the meeting, how the meeting was facilitated, and how people’s opinions were valued. For example, one important item that was on the agenda for the meeting was about determining informational technology priorities for the next fiscal year. Various people discussed their feelings on the topic and the committee came to the conclusion that the focus would be on not bringing any new projects forward but just focusing on the issues currently being tackled. I felt this was an important decision because requests for information technology changes has been taking quite a bit of time and instead of
would be one of my teaching lessons that I would plan and deliver to work towards my clinical project goal of implementing at least two lessons into the existing educational materials. Once my preceptor and I established a time and date that we felt would work well with orientation, I facilitated getting the simulation lab secured for this learning activity. I also began gathering materials to help me in not only designing the simulation activity, but also in evaluation of the activity and our learning outcomes. I utilized a teaching outline that the staff development and simulation coordinator sent to me, in order to begin writing my teaching plan for the simulation. Insights/Discoveries/Reflection Overall, I felt quite productive this week. To start, I enjoyed attending the Nurse Practice Council meeting and hearing more about was going on organizationally. Although I had not included roles and activities such as this in my practicum planning guide, I did hope that I would have opportunities to gain competency in the change agent and leadership role for the nursing professional development specialist. I believe attending this meeting and volunteering to serve on the subcommittee for modifications to the professional practice model has been beneficial in gaining competency in these roles. It was also really beneficial to gain a better perspective of how the organization functions and how different projects have an impact throughout the organization. I liked being able to meet new people, especially those names that I recognized, and see how they performed their role. Finally, I also thought it was important to see the way communication flowed in the meeting, how the meeting was facilitated, and how people’s opinions were valued. For example, one important item that was on the agenda for the meeting was about determining informational technology priorities for the next fiscal year. Various people discussed their feelings on the topic and the committee came to the conclusion that the focus would be on not bringing any new projects forward but just focusing on the issues currently being tackled. I felt this was an important decision because requests for information technology changes has been taking quite a bit of time and instead of
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