TSM2: Emerging Professional Practice Time Log Field Experience Requirements

D225 Emerging Professional Practice Field

Experience Requirements
The purpose of this field experience is to expose you to nursing care interventions that
focus on a population. In this field experience, you will engage with a community health
nursing professional (BSN required) working with populations receiving chronic disease
management or palliative/hospice care. You will use the knowledge gained from your
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) certificate courses to work with a
community health nursing professional (BSN required) providing care to patients with
chronic health needs or palliative/hospice care needs across the lifespan, alleviating
suffering, improving quality of life, and empowering patients and families who have
received life-limiting diagnoses.

Because your field experience is specialized to expose you to the professional nursing role
within a community, you need to identify only one community health nursing professional
to complete all your field experience hours within this course. You may continue to use the
same site and work directly with the same community health nursing professional identified
in your D224 course, if applicable to the requirements of this course, and approved by your
instructor. Direct co-workers and family members cannot be used as the BSN-prepared
community/population health nursing professional for your field experience hours. Your
instructor is always ready to help.

IMPORTANT: Inpatient hospital settings (i.e., medical/surgical units, intensive care units,
etc.) are not acceptable for D225 field experience hours.

Submitting Time Spent for Field Experience Activities

As you complete your field experience, you will submit the time spent for each field
experience activity through the D225 Emerging Professional Practice Activity Log found
on your Field Experience page. You will identify how the field experience activity is
related to chronic disease management or palliative/hospice care.

You may not complete or log any field experience activity until you have passed
D224, received a formal clearance confirmation email from Health Placement,
and officially started the D225 Emerging Professional Practice course.

Getting Started

During this field experience, you will become familiar with the diverse ways nurses interact
within communities to support and maintain the health of patients with chronic diseases or
those receiving palliative/hospice care. This field experience opportunity focuses on planning
and providing care to this population across the life span, alleviating suffering, improving
quality of life, and empowering the patients and their families who have received life-
limiting diagnoses.

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Note: When talking with community health professionals, always identify yourself as a BSN
student and dress professionally. Nursing scrubs and WGU Clinical Badge should be worn for
all direct care hours.

Field Experience Activity Requirements

You must complete a total of 45 Emerging Professional Practice direct care hours to meet
the requirements of this field experience.

Direct care refers to a professional encounter between a nurse and an actual individual or
family, that is intended to achieve specific health goals or achieve selected health outcomes.
Direct care may be provided in a wide range of settings. For the purposes of this field
experience, the BSN student must engage with a community health nursing professional
(BSN required) providing direct care in a community-based setting where care is focused on
the chronic disease management or palliative/hospice spheres of care.

Direct Care Field Experience Hours

Field experience activities are only allowed when working directly with a community health
nursing professional (BSN required) employed at a community facility. The 45 direct care
hours must be completed in areas working directly with patients (i.e., individuals, groups,
communities) and focused on chronic disease management or palliative/hospice care.

Chronic Disease Management – includes management of chronic diseases and

prevention of negative sequelae.

Hospice Care – includes management of patients during end-of-life care.

Palliative Care – includes management of patients requiring supportive, extended care,

those with chronic disease states, or those requiring rehabilitative care.

IMPORTANT: Inpatient hospital settings (i.e., medical/surgical units, intensive care units,
etc.) are not acceptable for D225 field experience hours.

Potential direct patient care field experience activities may vary depending on the
population but may include the following community locations:
 Adult Day Care Center
 Assisted Living/Skilled Nursing Facility
 Home Healthcare Agency
 Home Hospice/Outpatient Hospice (i.e., respite care)
 Infusion Center
 Long-Term Care Facility/Rehabilitation Center (i.e., LTAC)
 Memory Care
 Mental Health Facility
 Outpatient Rehabilitation/Physical Therapy Center
 Palliative Care Clinic
 Parish Nurse Service/Clinic
 Specialized Outpatient Clinics
o Cardiology/Cardiac Rehab
o Chemotherapy
o Dialysis

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o Endocrinology
o Gastrointestinal
o Hematology
o Infectious Disease/Prevention
o Nephrology
o Oncology
o Pain Management
o Psychiatric/Mental Health
o Pulmonary
o Radiation
o Rheumatology
o Substance Abuse Recovery
o Urology
o Wound Care Clinic

Field Experience Submission Instructions

Submit each of your field experience activities using the D225 Emerging Professional
Practice Activity Log found on your Field Experience page. You can access your Field
Experience page by clicking the “Field Experience Button” on your degree plan.

Submit a completed Emerging Professional Practice Activity Log for each day or block of
time. Once in the activity log, follow the prompts and enter the following:

1. Include date, start time, and end time.

2. Include the number of patients and diagnoses.
3. Include specific activities performed or observed by the student.
4. Include a description of the selected date’s appropriate field experience activity with
distinct detail to support the number of hours for the activity. Note: Prep and
travel time are not to be included in the reported hours.
5. Indicate if the hours for each activity are chronic disease management or
palliative/hospice care hours.
6. Include a description of how the field experience activities relate to the documented
sphere of care (chronic disease management or palliative/hospice care).

Assessment and Task Details

Assessment Code: TSM2

Task Name: Emerging Professional Practice Time Log

Competencies

738.8.1
Analyze Genetic and Genomic Influences and Risks
 The learner analyzes genetic and genomic influences and risks to plan patient
education that recognizes individual attitudes and values.

738.8.2
Explain Palliative Care Interventions
 The learner explains interprofessional interventions that alleviate suffering, improve

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quality of life, and empower patients and families who have received life-limiting
diagnoses.

Introduction

To fulfill the requirements for your Emerging Professional Practice course, you will submit an
activity log of the hours through Field Experience.

Requirements

All submissions must be submitted using the Activity Log link on the Field Experience page.
Student submissions must be their original work. Students must complete a total of 45
hours in chronic disease management or palliative/hospice care. The focus for this course is
chronic disease management and palliative/hospice care; therefore, be sure to only include
patients and activities that meet these spheres of care.

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the
submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly
quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides
detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work.

Scoring Rubric

Each required element in the assessment requirements must have a corresponding scoring
aspect in the rubric. Any scores of Not Evident or Approaching Competence on any
aspect will result in the learner failing the assessment. Learners should aim to pass their
task within three submission attempts.

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Unaccep
table Activities

Field experience activities reported during paid working time are not acceptable. Activities
related to your current work position (i.e., CPR training, work shifts, training orientation, or
courses, classes, or conferences) are not acceptable for your field experience hours, nor are
drive time, orientation, or other logistical or administrative tasks (i.e., obtaining a facility
badge).

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