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[Your Name] is the weekly clinical communication student name.
Regarding the week of [date]–[date]
This week’s completed clinical hours: [Insert number of hours]
Completed Patient Interactions This Week: [Insert encounters]
To date, the total number of clinical hours completed is [insert total hours].
To date, the total number of authorized patient encounters completed is [insert total encounters].
Clinical Highlights Talk: I saw a patient this week who had been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The patient had both psychological (such as excessive worry) and physical symptoms (such as muscle soreness and tension headaches). Because it brought attention to the necessity of a comprehensive strategy in patient care, this interaction was especially intriguing. I discovered how critical it is to concurrently address mental and physical health issues.
I was able to independently provide mindfulness activities and relaxation methods to the patient during this interaction, which my preceptor found admirable. In addition to taking SSRIs as directed by their doctor, the patient was open to these tactics. For better results, I learned from this experience how important it is to combine pharmacological management with evidence-based psychotherapy procedures.
Examining the Future:
Next week, I want to concentrate on differential diagnoses during clinical evaluations in order to strengthen my capacity to handle patients with complex comorbidities. The following is the clinical schedule I have suggested:
Monday: 4 hours, 8:00 AM–12:00 PM
Wednesday from 1 to 5 p.m. (4 hours)
9:00 AM to 1:00 PM on Friday (four hours)
12 hours in total.
I will send you an email or message to continue our conversation. (Alternative)
The difficulty of incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) standards into clinical management of patients with mental health problems is the topic of discussion.
If you want any additional refinements, please let me know!
QUESTION
Student Name:
For the week of [date] – [date]
(Click on ‘date’ and a drop down calendar will appear.)
| Clinical Hours completed this week | Patient Encounters completed this week | ||
| Total Clinical Hours completed to date | Total Approved Patient Encounters completed to date |
Clinical Highlights
Choose one or more of the following to guide your self-reflection of your experience this week. Do not report on an extended SOAP note patient. The reflection should be a minimum of 100 to 150 words.
· Discuss an encounter that was particularly interesting and what you learned from it?
· Discuss a difficult or challenging encounter and how you handled it?
· Discuss an example of how you were able to independently contribute to this week’s encounters?
· Were there any patient management plans developed by your preceptor that surprised you?
· Were you able to “teach” your preceptor anything this week?
· Identify a personal learning need you discovered while assessing or managing a specific diagnosis. What steps will you take to improve your understanding or skills?
· What insights did you gain during your experience this week that will prove most helpful for future encounters?
· What personal success do you want to celebrate?
· If I could have a do over, I would have done this instead……
| Discussion | Type your response here – |
Looking Ahead
· What clinical goal would you like to tackle next week ?
· What is your proposed clinical schedule (date/time/total hours) for next week ?
| Discussion | Type your response here – |
I am going to email/message you to further discuss … (Optional)
· Reviewing a challenging patient encounter.
· Challenges/concerns with my preceptor and/or my clinical site.
· The absence of the application of EBP/CPGs in the clinical setting.
· Challenges with gaining access to enough patients in the required age range.
· Challenges with gaining access to a wide variety of diagnoses for the course population.
· Incorrect action(s) taken by me at the clinical site.
· Locating resources to assist with my clinical experience.
· Anything else . . .
| Topic to Discuss | If any, type your response here – |