Family Nurse Practitioner Practicum Experience

The practicum experience helps to increase knowledge and skills learned in previous courses. It creates an atmosphere to apply evidence-based concepts of disease management to patient care plans. Sharing of practicum experiences with classmates will increase knowledge of most common illnesses treated in different practicum settings. Continue to ask questions of your preceptor and examine rationales for prioritizing diagnoses and prescribing medications.

Please share practicum experiences with classmates by addressing the following information:

• Type of practicum setting – general practice clinic
• Average number of patients seen by you and the preceptor on a daily basis – Me (8), preceptor (20)
• Most common diagnosis treated: hypertension, common cold, diabetes
• Available resources (low cost meds, social services, community resources, etc.): not many resources, can be researched
• Most interesting patient presentation: can be made up
• Comfort level with history-taking, physical exam, medical diagnosing, management plans including prescribing medications, and health education and oral presentations: can be made up

At least 3 references, not older than 5 years old.

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I am at a general practice clinic. The number of patients often varies from day to day, but I mostly serve 8 patients, and my preceptor sees about 20 patients. Diabetes, hypertension, and the common cold were the most commonly diagnosed illnesses. The majority of the patients treated at the facility were Hispanics with a high rate of diabetes and hypertension. Most of the patients came to the clinic with complaints of fatigue, thirst, headaches, blurred vision, and tingling hands, which were all common symptoms of diabetes and hypertension and required close follow-up and monitoring. The facility offers dietary management, weight loss, physical activity and medicinal therapy (Drayton-Brooks et al., 2020). The facility offers low-cost

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