NR 574 · Adult-Gero Acute Care

NR 574 Acute Care Practicum I sample papers, week by week

Reviewed by Nell Harrington, MSN, RN Acute Care Practicum I Chamberlain University Free custom samples in 24–48h

NR 574 is the first practicum that carries hours, and its paper is about being on a service rather than about one patient. These examples show aims that can be marked, feedback answered in writing, and gaps named before term end.

How this shelf works

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. NR 574 is Chamberlain’s Acute Care Practicum I course. It centers on the first hours-bearing rotation, where what is graded is the record you keep of your own placement rather than a case. Searches like "nr 574 week 4 assignment example", "NR574 sample paper", and "NR 574 week samples" land on this page.

What NR 574 is really about

Three courses of case writing sit behind this one, and NR 574 changes the subject. Patients keep arriving, but the graded documents are about your position on the service: what you set out to learn, what the rotation actually put in front of you, how you answered when somebody told you what needed work, and what you asked for in the weeks that were left. Hours attach to this course, and those hours get recorded by you against your own placement. The writing around them is what Chamberlain marks, and it is marked on being specific rather than on sounding committed, which is a harder habit than it looks.

Objectives are where most of the early marks are won and lost. An aim saying you will improve your assessment skills cannot be graded, because nothing about the term could show it was met. One saying you will complete and present ten admission assessments on an inpatient service, with written feedback on three, can be checked at midterm and again at the end. The same standard runs through the rest: a journal entry reporting a busy week is worth less than one naming a single thing you did not understand. Everything opens on the usual weekly schedule across an eight week session.

What NR 574’s assessments ask for

The term opens with an objectives document, usually three to five aims, pitched so that a reader could tell at the end whether each one happened. A learning agreement or orientation piece follows in most sections, describing the setting, the supervision arrangement and the kinds of patients the placement will supply. Journals run weekly and stay short, marked on one specific incident rather than on a summary of the week. Midterm brings a self-appraisal set against the aims you wrote, which has to state what is behind and what is being done about it. Many sections add a written response to feedback you received, and the term closes with a summary of the rotation and what it left uncovered.

Where students lose points in NR 574

Aims written as aspirations cost points every session, and they keep costing because every later document is marked against them. Second is the journal reporting activity: three sentences on how many patients were seen, with nothing about the one that went badly, which is the entry the rubric row was written for. Third is a midterm appraisal claiming everything is on track when the objectives say otherwise, because faculty read the two documents side by side. Feedback answered with agreement and no plan, a gap noticed in week seven with nothing left to do about it, and a closing summary thanking the unit instead of assessing it all lose marks.

NR 574 grading scale at Chamberlain: how the work is graded, from Chamberlain Assignments
How Chamberlain grades NR 574, visualized by Chamberlain Assignments.

The NR 574 drawers

Week 1

NR 574 Week 1 discussion post example

Week 1 often opens on what a rotation can teach that a classroom cannot. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 2

NR 574 Week 2 learning objective set example

Week 2 fixes three to five aims written so a marker could check each one. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 3

NR 574 Week 3 orientation write-up example

Week 3 describes the setting, the supervision and the patients the term will supply. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 4

NR 574 Week 4 weekly practicum journal example

Week 4 keeps to one incident rather than to a report on the week. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 5

NR 574 Week 5 midpoint self-appraisal example

Week 5 measures the term so far against the aims written in week two. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 6

NR 574 Week 6 exposure gap memo example

Week 6 names what the rotation has not shown yet and what is being asked for. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 7

NR 574 Week 7 rounds presentation outline example

Week 7 plans a short case for the team in the order they listen in. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Week 8

NR 574 Week 8 end of rotation summary example

Week 8 assesses the placement itself and whatever it left uncovered. On request, free, 24-48h.

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Using a NR 574 sample the right way

An example earns its time here on the objectives document and the midterm appraisal, which people write badly in the same two ways. A worked version shows an aim with its evidence attached, and an appraisal naming something behind schedule without either excusing it or collapsing. What a sample cannot contain is your placement. Hours, dates, patient counts, supervisor comments and any signature on a form are yours to enter and yours alone; the example shows what a complete entry holds and which rows it gets read against. Nothing else about your rotation can be borrowed from a sample, and the rubric never asks for it.

How these samples are written

Every sample on this chart is written the way the custom ones are: the rubric decoded row by row, discussion samples sized for posts that cannot be edited after they land, templates filled field by field. Chamberlain revises classrooms; a custom request is always written to the rubric in YOUR course, never from a stale template.

NR 574 questions, answered

Can you supply practicum hours or a preceptor signature?

No. Nothing here produces hours, placements, attestations or a signed form, and no sample will be written as though a visit happened. That part of the course belongs to you, your placement and your faculty. What we write is the assignment around it: the objectives document, the journal, the appraisal and the closing summary, built on a constructed rotation and marked against the same rubric rows yours is.

What do you need to write an objectives document?

The setting, the specialty, how many weeks the rotation runs, and any competency list your section attaches. If faculty gave a template with required categories, send it, because the categories change how many aims are expected. Three lines about what you personally want out of the term help more than anything else, since an objective has to belong to somebody.

How is a weekly journal actually graded?

On one incident, described closely enough that a reader can tell what you did not know. Most rubrics carry a row for description, a row for analysis and a row for what changes next week, and the second of those is where entries fail. An account stopping at what happened has filled one row out of three, which is why long journals routinely score lower than short ones.