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In a 1-2 page paper, explain how you communicated with your preceptor and practicum site and summarize the practice gap or problem you have identified

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In a 1-2 page paper, explain how you communicated with your preceptor and practicum site and summarize the practice gap or problem you have identified.

INTRODUCTION

Preparing for your practicum requires you to apply intraprofessional communication skills as you pursue the arrangement and develop working relationships. In addition, communication with your preceptor is an opportunity to define a practice gap for your project.

DEMONSTRATION OF PROFICIENCY

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the course competencies through the following assessment scoring guide criteria:

• Competency 1: Address assessment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
  • Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
  • Integrate writing feedback into an assessment.
• Competency 2: Craft a compelling argument.
  • Interpret evidence to support an argument.
• Competency 4: Obtain preceptor and practicum approval.
  • Summarize a practice gap or problem that has the appropriate scope for a DNP project.
• Competency 5: Communicate with organizational and community stakeholders in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to the promotion, delivery, and maintenance of health and the prevention and treatment of disease.
  • Explain how you facilitated discussions and interactions and received ideas and feedback from others.

PREPARATION

Gather your notes from discussions with your practicum site, and conduct additional discussions as needed to meet the assessment criteria.

Review evidence you have gathered related to the practice gap or problem, and conduct additional research as needed to gather evidence in support of the practice gap or problem.

Once you draft this assessment, submit it to Smarthinking for feedback, which you will integrate into your paper. Ask Smarthinking for feedback related to a doctoral writing skill you want to improve.

INSTRUCTIONS

Note: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your instructor’s feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your instructor’s feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.

Integrate the feedback received from Smarthinking, and any additional research as needed, to convert your draft into a completed assessment that meets the following criteria:

• Summarize a practice gap or problem that has the appropriate scope for a DNP project.
  • Describe the scope of the project, including the proposed project timeframe.
• Explain how you facilitated discussions and interactions and received ideas and feedback from others. In Part 1 of your Project Charter, you will use this information to help describe how you recruited project sponsors and a project team.
  • Discuss the steps you have taken, or will be taking, to secure your proposed site and preceptor.
  • Describe your potential preceptor's leadership position and role in the organization.
  • Describe the kind of relationship you have with the preceptor.
  • Describe your strategy for obtaining cooperation and collaboration at your proposed site.
• Interpret evidence to support an argument. In Project Charter Part 2, you will identify evidence to support the need for your intervention, present a business or clinical case, identify what the change will accomplish and how it will impact consumers, staff, patients, and/or the health care system as a whole.
  • Describe a gap in practice you have identified at your proposed practicum site.
  • Identify evidence for the gap at the site.
  • Search further for evidence of the gap at the local, state, or national level.
  • Why is this a gap in practice? Support the problem with evidence.
  • Is the organization aware that this is a gap in practice?
• Explain how the integration of writing feedback improves the assessment.
  • Describe changes made based upon Smarthinking feedback.
  • Explain how these changes move your work closer to one or more of the writing quality indicators identified in the Writing Feedback Tool.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Page Length: 1–2 pages.
• Writing: Produce text with minimal grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanical errors.
• Smarthinking Feedback: Attach the document, including the feedback, to your submission.