Clinical Log
Reflect on your clinical experience for the past 50 hours (Self-reflection):
A. Discuss your relationship with your preceptor. Are you fulfilling your Clinical goals? Types of interactions? How are psychiatric NP’s utilized in this practice?
B. Evaluate your agency/clinical site. Include information about how the site
operates. Discuss your perceptions of practice in this site.
C. Discuss any factors which facilitated or presented a barrier to your role as a NP.
D. Self-evaluate and critique your performance during this time period.
E. Reactions to client interactions and responses to treatment.
This log will be used to assess your progress and to give you feedback on your diagnostic skills at the advance level. Do not hesitate to give information on areas which you feel you could have provided better care or a different type of care. Did you miss something altogether? How did that happen? Honestly critique your performance during this time frame. At this level, you should be able to critique your professional practice and give information about how to improve your practice.
Suggestions for Self-Evaluation of Logs:
1. State your clinical objectives for the week. Were your objectives met? If so how? If
not, why? Use your written clinical objectives as a guide.
2. Discuss feelings that relate to your professional practice this week? Include at least
one aspect of professional practice as an NP and one aspect of case management,
risk management.
3. What aspects of your professional practice do you identify as strengths?
Give specific examples that support your conclusions.
4. What aspects of your professional practice do you identify as needing improvement?
Give specific examples to support your conclusions.
5. What strategies will you use to improve this/these aspects of your practice?
When, where and how will you implement your strategies for improvement
