Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Practicum II Pediatrics/Family – NURS 755

Course Description

This practicum course provides extensive experience to prepare the student for the professional role of a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner. Students will provide interviewing, screening, diagnostic testing, episodic, acute and chronic care to pediatrics, clients and families. The student should demonstrate evidence based practice behaviors and adhere to standards of care to order and interpret screening/diagnostic tests, prescribe therapeutics, and develop health prevention/promotion, and health maintenance plans. Students should be able to assess the pediatric client, and families and develop a plan of care in consultation with the preceptor. The student should provide holistic care through the integration of ethnicity, culture and community.

Rationale

The Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) practicum courses provide the context and framework through which, upon completion of the Post MSN DNP/PMHNP or Post Graduate PMHNP Certificate program, the nursing student will be prepared to enter the professional role of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. This course helps to meet the required minimum of 1000 post-BSN clinical hours for DNP students, and helps to meet the minimum of 500 population-focused direct patient care hours in order to be eligible to sit for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner nationally recognized certification. (ANCC, 2006; NTF, 2017), and the Liberty University School of Nursing, minimum of 504 PMHNP direct-patient care Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner practicum hours.

Course Assignment

Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview. 

School of Nursing Handbook Acknowledgement Assignment

The School of Nursing handbook provides essential information for the successful completion of the program requirements. This quiz will take the student to the link for the program handbook, and the student will be asked to agree to the School of Nursing Handbook Acknowledgement.

Practicum II Objectives Assignments (3)

The Practicum II Objective Assignments allow the student to develop measurable practicum learning objectives that are consistent with the practicum focus. The student cannot start practicum without the approval of the practicum objectives part I by the instructor. Please see Practicum Objective Assignment (Part I-III) Grading Rubric in NURS 755 Course.

Practicum Log Check Assignments

Submission of a practicum log for each patient encounter into the Typhon system is a mandatory requirement of the practicum course. Each student is responsible for maintaining his or her own practicum logs. All patient encounters, whether seen independently, in collaboration with preceptor, or as observation, require an entry into Typhon. Every entry will include demographic information for each patient, level of student participation and level of care. The student is required to select two patient encounters on each practicum day to write a full SOAP note. The remaining patient encounters will be entered as clinical summaries. The student is also required to document two comprehensive psychiatric assessment of new patients from practicum encounter in Typhon during the semester. Practicum faculty will review practicum logs on a weekly basis and offer feedback. The student is expected to respond to feedback and make corrections as recommended. Faculty will review case logs at the midterm and at the end of the semester looking for completeness and revision of logs and award points for completed logs. The student will be required to submit assignments to the third-party software and then in cases outlined in the Canvas modules, will submit completion validations for review and grading. Please see the Typhon Guide and the Practicum/Clinical Log Grading Rubric in NURS 755 Course. The student must document the SOAP notes and clinical summaries within one week of the clinical experience. Throughout the course, the student will submit documentation into Typhon and complete the Canvas validation quiz in corresponding modules to validate completion hours.

Practicum Hours

During NURS 755 PMHNP Practicum II, the student must complete 280 hours providing direct patient care under the supervision of the practicum preceptor. NURS 755 PMHNP Practicum II adheres to the practicum guidelines and requirements outlined in the current Liberty University Doctor of Nursing Practice Student Handbook. Throughout the course the student will submit documentation into Typhon and complete the Canvas validation quiz in corresponding modules to validate completion hours.

Practicum Schedule

The student is required to develop a practicum schedule that is agreed upon and approved by Practicum preceptor. A PDF copy of the schedule should be uploaded to the Typhon NPST system “External Documents”, “Practicum Schedule” folder. A quiz upload in Canvas is provided to validate that the student has completed the task and it is ready for review.

Practicum Hour Verification

The student will need to maintain a preceptor-verified practicum tracking record, which tracks the practicum hours for each practicum course that will become a part of the student’s permanent academic record (PMHNP Practicum Tracking Record). Failure to maintain a signed practicum tracking record to verify the practicum hours will result in an incomplete for the practicum course, and the student will not be able to progress to the subsequent practicum course.

The student is required to enter practicum hours into the Typhon Time Log. The Practicum faculty will monitor the Practicum Time Log throughout the practicum course and practicum hours will be endorsed by Practicum Faculty at the end of each practicum course. The student must document the practicum experience in Typhon within 24 hours of completion to prevent the system from locking and not allowing the student to enter the late encounters. The student will be required to submit assignments to the third-party software and then, in cases outlined in the Canvas modules, will submit completion validations for review and grading.

Student Performance Evaluation Assignment

NURS 755 PMHNP Practicum II adheres to the student practicum performance and evaluation requirements outlined in the current Liberty University Doctor of Nursing Practice Student Handbook Practicum. Faculty will complete a student practicum evaluation based upon observation of student performance during the practicum site visit. The student will be required to submit this assignment in the module quiz link to show completion validation.

Case Analysis Exercise Assignment

The Case Analysis Exercise (CAE) Assignment allow the PMHNP student to analyze patient encounters from his/her practicum experience. Emphasis is on the evaluation of the plan of care in regards to evidence-based practices, cultural and socioeconomic factors. Please see Case Analysis Grading Rubric in NURS 755 Course.

CAE- Pediatric Acute/Chronic Mental Health: The student is to select an encounter for which the patient presented with an acute or complex chronic mental health problem. The student will reproduce the SOAP note from the patient encounter and then complete the CAE following the assignment rubric. Please see Case Analysis Grading Rubric in NURS 755 Course.

Typhon Portfolio Completion Assignment

The student will build on the professional portfolio that was started in the previous practicum course and complete the portfolio in Typhon. The student will upload the necessary documents into Typhon based on the degree plan. The student will provide a written statement in word document confirming completion of the assignment and readiness to review in Typhon.

Certification Review Modules Assignment

The student will complete a Certification Pre-Predictor exam in the first module of the course. Throughout the course, the student will complete a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Review Course. The student will have a weekly module review quiz based on the assigned module. The student must complete the module review quizzes with a 90% or greater before submitting the PDF file to the module quiz for validation of completion and credit. The student will be enrolled in NURS 821 and will need to complete the Comprehensive Examination as part of graduation requirements. The student will receive information about the date and time of the examination, and Proctorio will proctor it. Once the Comp Exam is complete, a file upload document will be submitted to the module quiz link for validation of completion.

MS Teams Synchronous Meeting: Standardized Patient Experience (Telepsychiatry Simulation)

The Standardized Patient (SP) is a synchronous simulation experience that is a mandatory requirement of this course. The purpose of the SP experience is to evaluate clinical progress through problem-based scenarios by utilizing Standardized Patients (SPs) and elements of telepsychiatry. The student will receive grade points for the SP encounter, SOAP note, and self-evaluation for each mental health encounter. Attendance is required, and the SP experience does not count as practicum hours. Please see the Standardized Patient Grading Rubric in NURS 755 Course.

MS Teams Synchronous Meetings

The MS Teams Meeting discussion provides the student with the opportunity to discuss the topic for the module. The student will also share clinical encounters as it relates to the topic. The MS Teams Meeting discussion will allow the student to interact, share experiences, discuss the topics for the identified in the module and ask questions relating to the practicum experience. The student will submit his/her completed work from each of the assigned MS Teams Meetings to the Assignments links designated in the Modules for final review and grading by the instructor.

Topics to be discussed will include:

• Session 1 - Practicum Orientation and Typhon Tracking
• Session 2 - PMHNP Role in Pediatric Psychiatric Mental Health and Family
• Session 3 - Psychiatric Disorders
• Session 4 - Psychotherapeutic Management and Behavioral Therapy

Final Practicum Log Assignment

The student must select two patients on each practicum day that will be entered as SOAP notes (see SOAP note and Typhon guide in the course). The remaining patient encounters will be entered as clinical summaries (see the Typhon guide for example). Data must be entered within one week of the clinical experience.  Practicum log checks will be performed by practicum faculty twice this semester (Midterm and last week of the course). 

Quiz: Pre-Predictor Examination Submission - PDF Submission

The student must submit a PDF copy of the Analysis Report Score using the submission link. This quiz is limited to 30 minutes, allowing one attempt.

Quiz: Simulation Center Preparation & Consent Attestation Submission

This quiz covers the Learn material from Module 12. The student is required to complete certain requirements through the simulation center in preparation for the SP experience. The student will submit attestation of preparation and consent to participate in the assignment Dropbox. This quiz contains 1 true/false question, is limited to 30 minutes, and allows one attempt.

Quiz: Completion of Comprehensive Examination in NURS821 Submission

This quiz covers the Learn material from Module 12. Contains 1 true/false question, is limited to 30 minutes, and allows 1 attempt.

Barkley Module Review Quizzes

The student will complete learning experiences within the Barkley interactive modules.

Video Attestation Quizzes (2 @ 1 pt. ea.)

These quizzes are one-question each, attesting that the student has viewed the assigned video. Limited to 30 minutes, allows one attempt per quiz.

Quiz: Practicum Log & InPlace Components Attestations

Prior to beginning this quiz, the student will review the InPlace and Practicum Log Instructions located in the Learn section of this module. Once the student has completed both of these entries for Practicum Log Mid-term entry and InPlace Submission, he/she will complete this two-question quiz attesting that he/she has submitted in InPlace. This quiz is limited to 30 minutes and allows one attempt.

Quiz: Mid-term Practicum Log Check, Evaluation, and Site Visit Attestation Submission

The student will complete this quiz attesting that he/she has submitted in Typhon. This quiz contains 2 true/false questions and 1 file upload, is limited to 30 minutes, and allows 1 attempt.

Quiz: Evaluation of Preceptor & Site Validation Submission

This quiz is confirmation of completing the Evaluation of Preceptor & Site Validation Submission to Typhon. It contains 1 true/false question, is limited to 30 minutes, and allows 1 attempt.