Practicum Presentation Instructions:
Final Practicum Presentation reflects your Practicum experiences and highlights your major projects, activities, and lessons learned. Presentation, like your Reflective Paper, should include
A) Description and history of Agency
- Mission or objective of the h/c organization
- Size in terms of patient capacity and staff
- Target population serviced
- Type of services rendered and/or volume of service
- Relationship of institutions to other institutions
- Effectiveness in meeting institutional goals
- Other notable services or concepts
B) Department/unit mission, vision, goals, effectiveness (if applicable)
C) Reflections
- General observations
- Comments regarding your impressions of the facility and its programs and services
- Comments about your individual experiences, gains, and growth
- Comments about your ability to meet your professional and academic goals
D) Project report[1]
- Description of your project or activities
- Interactions
- Your contributions
- Lessons Learned
- Analysis of professional and Personal growth.
Each student prepares his/her presentation about his/her practicum experiences according to the guidelines above. The presentation can be in any of the following formats- PowerPoint, poster, a monologue with no supporting slides or materials- and should be submitted on the course Blackboard for all classmates to review and learn from your experiences. The presentation length is 10-15 minutes. If the file is too big, please create a YouTube presentation and provide a link.
Any additional meetings are only required if they are recommended by the instructor based on the Practicum Preceptor’s feedback or the student’s request. The student is required to contact the instructor and schedule this additional meeting based on his and the instructor’s availability.
Each student is required to write a 6-10-page learning paper on his or her fieldwork experience. This paper should include
- highlights of the student’s work activities and/or projects,
- “Lessons learned” part that reflects what helped a student to grow professionally and personally how she/he applied her theoretical knowledge to a real-life situation, and
- a self-evaluation of his or her experiences and skills.
Below are the major points your reflective Paper should include:
A) Description and history of Agency
- Mission or objective of the h/c organization
- Size in terms of patient capacity and staff
- Target population serviced
- Type of services rendered and/or volume of service
- Relationship of institutions to other institutions
- Effectiveness in meeting institutional goals
- Other notable services or concepts
B) Department/unit mission, vision, goals, effectiveness (if applicable)
C) Reflections (6-8 pages of a total report)
- General observations
- Analysis and evaluation of your individual experiences, professional and personal gains
- Comments, analysis and evaluation of your ability to meet your professional and academic objectives that were established in your Professional Development Plan
Steps that you realized you need to take to meet your professional and academic objectives
This Reflective Paper should be written in APA format and include literature support. The paper is also part of your portfolio, item 6. Detailed instruction of the information to be included in your Reflective paper is included in your syllabus, p. 9.