Week 10 Bi-weekly Practicum Journaling
Throughout this course you have been describing your clinical activities in your journal. This week you will focus on a specific topic related to your practicum experience.
Write a brief (300-word) personal reflection describing interprofessional collaboration during your experiences in the clinical setting. Reflect on your efforts as a team member to move a client along the health continuum.
Please consider the following areas:
What professions did you interact with?
answer: Medicaid/medicaid team ACCESS Health, Case management, Social Services, Mental Health Services
What challenges did the interprofessional team had to overcome to deliver competent care?
answer: Determining which services that each professional team offers and what days and times were they available.
How did the interprofessional care enhance the status of a client/population?
answer: I was able to refer them to the appropriate resources to access proper medical treatment
How might this experience affect your future practice?
answer: Helps me be more knowledgeable about the available resources.
(My aggregate population is the homeless community and my practicum site is at the local homeless shelter*SPHIN in Spartanburg, SC)
As in all assignments, cite your sources in your work and provide references for the citations in APA format. Support your work, using your course lectures and textbook readings. Helpful APA guides and resources are available in the South University Online Library. Below are guides that are located in the library and can be accessed and downloaded via the South University Online Citation Resources: APA Style page. The American Psychological Association website also provides detailed guidance on formatting, citations, and references at APA Style.
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Week 6 Bi-Weekly Practicum Journaling
Student’s First Name, Middle Initial(s), Last Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course Number and Name
Instructor’s Name and Title
Assignment Due Date
Week 6 Bi-weekly Practicum Journaling
Working with the homeless is an experience that has put both my professional and emotional attributes to the test. In my practicum experience, I have learned that aligning with the healthy People 2020 goals is pertinent for successful interventions. As outlined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (2011), the overarching objectives are to attain longer lives devoid of preventable injury, disease, disability, and premature death, improvement of health across all groups of people, the achievement of health equality, and elimination of disparities. At the homeless shelter, I discovered that most people lacked equitable health care services, which is detrimental to their health and well-being.
As a professional, I perceived that the social welfare system did not comprehensively address the principal factors that contributed to poor health within homeless facilities. Despite providing guidelines, the policies lacked a clear financial health policy that could provide better health identical to that received in proper federal and state hospitals. The perspective led to my reflective intuition. As outlined by Blake (2005), reflective practice describes a team or individual taking time to ponder about their part, including what is happening correctly, what is challenging, how they feel, and how they make other people feel. In my learning experience, I noticed that while the homeless people appeared grateful for our health care efforts, I felt that they were not convinced that the authorities were doing enough to help them, which could be seen through their faces and incessant complaints. I feel that the resources are overwhelmed by the number of homeless people seeking health care within the setting. Personally, I believe that a better housing placement system could help to alleviate the problem, alongside recruitment of more social workers and increase of the health budget. More innovative policy designs are essential to improve health and equity in homeless shelters.
References
Blake, T. K. (2005). Journaling; An active learning technique. International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2 (1), Article 7.
United States Department of Health and Human Services. (2011). Healthy People 2020. http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/overview.aspx?topicid=8
