Poster Development

NU-740: Week 14 Assignment 1: Poster Development

Week 14 Assignment 1: Poster Development

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Assignments

Instructions

1. Go to the website Creating Effective Poster Presentations, found at DNP Connections on Moodle.
2.  Once on that site, review the following tabs:
   1. An Effective Poster
   2. Define Your Message
   3. Know Your Audience(s)
   4. An Effective Abstract
3. Following your review, discuss your experience and comfort level with creating posters.
4. If poster creation is a new skill for you, discuss some of the challenges you predict you might encounter.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded. Poster Development

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 14: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 15: Disseminating the Results
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 15 (PPT)

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Other Moran Textbook PowerPoint presentations:

• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 4 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 13 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 14 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 16 (PPT)

 

Week 15 Assignment 2: Complete Your SPP PowerPoint Presentation

Week 15 Assignment 2: Complete Your SPP PowerPoint Presentation

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Complete/Incomplete

Instructions

This week, you will be presenting your Proposal Defense to your faculty at the prearranged date/time that you scheduled in Week 12.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Note: You will not submit anything this week. You will receive a complete mark after you have met with your faculty.

 

Week 15 Assignment 1: Proposal Defense Presentation

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Assignment

Instructions

For this assignment, you will need to attend at least one Richard and Sheila Young School of Nursing DNP Defense during this semester. After you attend, write a brief synopsis (one paragraph) that includes the date and title of the DNP student’s defense you attended. In your synopsis, answer the following:

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1. What is one detail you learned that can be applied to your SPP?
2. Where do you feel you will need the most assistance in preparing your own defense?
3. List one goal you plan to achieve in preparation for your own DNP defense.

Submit your answers in a Word document.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 15: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

There are no assigned readings; however, you should be reading material from Moran et al. (2020) that is specific to your project.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)
• Carnegie, D. Speak More Effectively (e-book)

Week 14 Assignment 3: Poster Submission and SPP Proposal

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Complete/Incomplete

Instructions

Submit a revised copy of your Poster presentation.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 14 Assignment 2: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category:  Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Review of poster development
3. Confirmation of Week 15’s scheduled Proposal Defense Presentation
4. Review of clinical hours completed to date

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 14 Assignment 1: Poster Development

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Assignments

Instructions

1. Go to the website Creating Effective Poster Presentations, found at DNP Connections on Moodle.
2. Once on that site, review the following tabs:
   1. An Effective Poster
   2. Define Your Message
   3. Know Your Audience(s)
   4. An Effective Abstract
3. Following your review, discuss your experience and comfort level with creating posters.
4. If poster creation is a new skill for you, discuss some of the challenges you predict you might encounter.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 13 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

 

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP.

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Discussion of additional resources that may be needed, such as administrative, statistical, or technological
3. Review of clinical hours completed to date

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 13: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

There are no assigned readings; however, you should be reading material from Moran et al. (2020) that is specific to your project.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Week 13 Assignment 2: Uploading SLOs to CORE ELMS Portfolio and SLOs

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Complete/Incomplete

Instructions

1. Review the Week 1 Activity 2: Portfolio Information and Resources for the details and portfolio information.
2. Make certain that your portfolio information is up to date.
3. Your instructor will review the content and offer constructive feedback.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 13 Assignment 3: SPP PowerPoint Submission

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: PPT Presentation

Instructions

Submit a revised copy of your SPP PowerPoint presentation.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 13 Assignment 4: The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education and SLOs

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Complete/Incomplete

Instructions

Over the past several weeks you have examined all nine student learning outcomes (SLOs) that provided an opportunity to reflect upon your achievements in accordance to academic standards. This week you will review and examine The Essentials outlined by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). The AACN revised the Essentials outlining the following Domains. The domains and descriptors used in the Essentials are listed below.

Selects a minimum of one Domain and describe how the Domain and SLOs facilitated competency in your DNP education and in professional practice in a minimum of 250 words.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. Evaluate the theoretical bases for nursing as they support organizations in achievement of adaptation and culturally competent care for health care delivery. 2. Synthesize evidence from research and theory to enhance delivery of quality health care. 3. Develop systems supportive of effective communication at the organizational and interdisciplinary level. 4. Generate knowledge through research and/or evidence-based practice to advance the nursing profession. 5. Evaluate ethical, legal, and professional standards of practice. 6. Evaluate the leadership and management roles of the doctoral prepared nurse in creating a quality health care delivery system. 7. Create an environment that maximizes continued learning and development for professional practice. 8. Evaluate the dynamic forces and issues influencing health care delivery in order to initiate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary change that affects the quality of the health care system. 9. Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and of educational strategies in influencing health care practitioners toward the design and implementation of effective health care delivery.

Essential Domains

Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Domain 2: Person-Centered Care Descriptor: Person-centered care focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others. Person-centered care is holistic, individualized, just, respectful, compassionate, coordinated, evidence-based, and developmentally appropriate. Person-centered care builds on a scientific body of knowledge that guides nursing practice regardless of specialty or functional area.

Domain 3: Population Health Descriptor: Population health spans the healthcare delivery continuum from public health prevention to disease management of populations and describes collaborative activities with both traditional and non-traditional partnerships from affected communities, public health, industry, academia, health care, local government entities, and others for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.

Domain 4: Scholarship for Nursing Discipline Descriptor: The generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.

Domain 5: Quality and Safety Descriptor: Employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science. Quality and safety, as core values of nursing practice, enhance quality and minimize risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance.

Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnerships Descriptor: Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

Domain 7: Systems-Based Practice Descriptor: Responding to and leading within complex systems of health care. Nurses effectively and proactively coordinate resources to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.

Domain 8: Informatics and Healthcare Technologies Descriptor: Information and communication technologies and informatics processes are used to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision making, and support professionals as they expand knowledge and wisdom for practice. Informatics processes and technologies are used to manage and improve the delivery of safe, high-quality, and efficient healthcare services in accordance with best practice and professional and regulatory standards.

Domain 9: Professionalism Descriptor: Formation and cultivation of a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.

Domain 10: Personal, Professional, and Leadership Development Descriptor: Participation in activities and self-reflection that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.

Review the SLOs addressed and consider the essentials and domains revising your word document as needed.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 11 Assignment 2: SLO 9 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 1

Evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and of educational strategies in influencing health care practitioners toward the design and implementation of effective health care delivery.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the Student Learning Outcome and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the Student Learning Outcomes and the Essentials at this stage of your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP).
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 12 Discussion: Recording your SPP Proposal (For Grading Purposes Only)

Week 12 Discussion 1: Scheduling Your Proposal Defense Meeting (For Grading Purposes Only)

Week 12 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Review of documenting into e-Logs
3. Discussion of additional resources that may be needed, such as administrative, statistical, or technological
4. Discussion of success in scheduling the Proposal Defense Presentation date
5. Review of clinical hours completed to date

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 12 Assignment 2: Current Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) Submission

Value: 100 points

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: SPP Paper

Instructions

In the past several weeks you have worked on the components of the SPP. Review the rubric for the content expected for this submission. Be sure to look over any feedback and incorporate in your submission

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 10 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

alue: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP.

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Discussion of additional resources that may be needed, such as administrative, statistical, or technological
3. Discussion of the roles of leadership, mentoring, informatics technology, and quality and safety as they apply to your SPP
4. Review of completed clinical hours to date

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 10 Assignment 2: SLO 8 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 8

Evaluate the dynamic forces and issues influencing health care delivery in order to initiate interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary change that affects the quality of the health care system.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the Student Learning Outcome and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the Student Learning Outcomes and the Essentials at this stage of your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP).
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 10 Assignment 3: Current Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) Submission

Value: 100 points

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: SPP Paper

Instructions

This week, you will add your theoretical framework and any revisions as advised by your instructor.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 11 Discussion 1: SPP Resources and Support (For Grading Purposes Only)

Week 11 Discussion 1: SPP Resources and Support

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

As you begin to think about the resources that you will need for your SPP, explain the following in this discussion forum:

1. Who will be needed to assist with your SPP in all of the stages, including assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating?
2. Consider inviting interprofessional collaboration into your team makeup, meaning individuals from both nursing and other professions. Identify, by profession, the resources who will be instrumental in your project and why.
3. Also remember to include the patients and populations served as stakeholders. If you know the names and disciplines of the identified team members for your project, please include this information to share with your course instructor.
4. Consider every step of the SPP. Will you also need administrative, statistical, or technological support?
5. Add any additional thoughts on your resources and support team.

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of discussion. If you have any questions, thoughts, and/or suggestions, you can make reply posts.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 11 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP.

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Discussion of additional resources that may be needed for writing resources
3. Discussion of how interprofessional collaboration applies to your SPP

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 8 Assignment 2: SLO 6 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 6

Evaluate the leadership and management roles of the doctoral prepared nurse in creating a quality health care delivery system.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the SLOs and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your SPP.
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine SLOs and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 9 Discussion 1: SPP Theoretical Framework (For Grading Purposes Only)

Week 9 Discussion 1: SPP Theoretical Framework

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Describe the theoretical framework that supports your SPP as you consider the following:

1. Indicate the main concepts or constructs of the theory.
2. Does the theory describe, explain or predict the phenomenon of interest?
3. Is there a graphic of the theory?
4. How will the theory guide the framework of the DNP project?
5. What are the model’s philosophical assumptions that relate to the theoretical framework?

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts and reply to two peers.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 9: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 5: The Phenomenon of Interest
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 5 (PPT)
• Holly, C. (2019). Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and the DNP Project (2nd ed.).
  • Chapter 2: Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Videos

Theoretical Framework, The Doctoral Journey (17:41 minutes)

Theoretical Framework Video Transcript

How to Support Research with Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks (5:19 minutes)

How to Support Research with Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks Video Transcript

Week 9 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP
2. Review of documenting into e-Logs
3. Discussion of additional resources that may be needed, such as administrative, statistical, or technological
4. Discussion of your chosen theoretical framework and its associated assumptions that support variables of your proposed project
5. Review of clinical hours completed to date

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Click the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Click Save Changes.

Week 9 Assignment 2: SLO 7 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 7

Create an environment that maximizes continued learning and development for professional practice.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the Student Learning Outcome and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the Student Learning Outcomes and the Essentials at this stage of your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP).
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 10 Discussion 1: Mentorship or Leadership

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Option 1 Mentorship

Initial Post

Does your SPP offer the opportunity to be a mentor and/or preceptor in a practice setting? Cho et al. (2011) identified the following attributes of an outstanding mentor:

• Exhibits enthusiasm, compassion, and selflessness
• Acts as a career guide, tailored to the mentee
• Is able to make a time commitment
• Supports personal/professional balance
• Has effective communication skills
• Is respected in the workplace by peers and senior administrators
• Is politically astute
• Is highly knowledgeable in the field (Moran et al., 2020, p. 261)

Reflect upon the above eight attributes and how you would rate yourself as a mentor. How might you achieve increased competency in any of these attributes during your SPP to develop fully in your advanced practice role?

Provide the name and contact information of your proposed mentor. This is someone in the community who will support you in your SPP as a content expert.

Option 2 Leadership, Informatics Technology, and Quality and Safety

Initial Post

Choose one of these three topics: leadership (prompt 1), informatics technology (prompt 2), or quality (prompt 3), and answer the corresponding prompt below. Please choose a topic that has not yet been addressed until the three topics have been explored in this discussion.

1. There will be opportunities to exemplify leadership in your SPP project. Discuss your perceived leadership strengths and weaknesses and identify your dominant leadership style(s).
2. There may be available opportunities to use informatics tools in your SPP project. Review Moran et al. (2020) Table 13-10: Informatics Tools to Enhance the DNP Project Process and Table 13-11: Informatics Tools: Functions and Operating Systems. Discuss how you might use some of the listed tools, or tools not introduced in these tables, in your project development, implementation, and evaluation stages.
3. There will be opportunities to support your SPP project with quality measures. Discuss the role of QSEN’s educational resources and training initiatives and how they might be incorporated into your SPP. How does your SPP synthesize evidence from research and theory to enhance delivery of quality health care?

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts and reply to two posts. You can make a both replies in the same option or in different options o. If you know someone who is an expert in a classmate’s topic area, please provide him or her with that information. If you have any questions, thoughts, and/or suggestions, you can make reply posts.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 7 Discussion: SPP Objectives

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Post your project objectives, which is a 2–3-sentence statement on the purpose of doing this project. This week you will write Project Objectives or aims of your study for conducting your project. These stated objectives will keep your project on track. I suggest that you review the project objectives description section in your text. The objectives should describe what will be done as a measurable component, and when it will be completed. You will need to identify the aim of the project and an aim of translation into practice, therefore, at minimum you will need 2 objectives/aims.

S.M.A.R.T. Objectives
Specific
Measurable w/Measurement
Achievable
Relevant
Time-Oriented

Specific

• What do I want to accomplish?
• Why is this goal important?
• Who is involved?
• Where is it located?
• Which resources or limits are involved?

Measurable w/Measurement

Achievable

• Can objective be achieved?

Relevant

• Should it be done?
• Why?

Time-oriented

• When will it be done?

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of discussion. If you have any questions, thoughts, and/or suggestions, you can make reply posts.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 7: Learning Material

Readings

Required

• Bradshaw, M., & Vitale, T. (2020). The DNP Project Workshop: A Step-by-Step Process for Success (1st ed.). Springer
  • Framing the DNP Project; Taking Aim and Being Smart pp. 161-183.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Week 7 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, you will:

1. Develop aims and objectives for your SPP.
2. Review documenting into Core Elms.
3. Demonstrate mastery of scholarly writing, including correct APA formatting.
4. Organize the components of your DNP SPP paper.
5. Review your project aims and objectives.
6. Describe your project feasibility.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If any associated assignments or tasks are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the following instructions.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 7 Assignment 2: SLO 5 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 5

Evaluate ethical, legal, and professional standards of practice.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the SLOs and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your SPP.
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine SLOs and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 7 Assignment 3: Current Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) Submission

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: SPP Paper

Instructions

This week, you will incorporate the research question, statement of the problem, background, significance, and objectives for your project in your draft.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 8 Discussion: SPP Evidence-Based Practice Model

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

This week you will determine your project approach and identify a practice Model best suited to guide your project. Moran et al. (2020) indicates that a “DNP projects use a variety of approaches including quality improvements, program and policy evaluation, evidence-based practice initiatives and components of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to evaluate, innovate or improve practice.” Methods such as PDSA; Six Sigma; or RCA in a QI project or the IOWA; the Rosswurm and Larrabee or Stelter models on an EPB project need “congruence between the project aim(s) and the study design, and the data collection and the analysis plan” (Moran et al., 2020, p. 156).

In Moran et al. (2020, p. 157), review Table 7-1 for the various approaches to the DNP project that include research /practice based inquiry, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, or program evaluation. As you begin to consider your project design,

1. Review and select the DNP approach consistent with your population, intervention and outcome measurement for your study and provide a rationale for your selection.
2. Describe the EBP model that will guide your project and the rationale for choosing this EBP model. You may refer to Table 7-1: DNP Project Approaches (Moran et al. 2021 p. 157) in your text for guidance.
3. Define practice inquiry as it relates to the development of your scholarship practice project outlined in Holly (2019, p. 47) and the importance practice inquiry as you develop your SPP proposal.
   Your DNP project can take many forms. In Figure 5-2, Moran et al. (2020, p. 141), gives some examples for review

Quality Improvement Projects (a focus on analyzing elements of specific areas of performance to gain some measure of improvement). Quality Improvement Projects might use Plan-Do-Study-Act, Six Sigma, Lean Methodology, Failure Mode Effect Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, or Structure Process Outcome to name a few frameworks.

Examples:

• Deploying a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in an Emergency Department to Improve Outcomes for Geriatric Patients
• Fall Prevention in the Medical Surgical Setting
• Optimizing Inpatient Heart Failure Education to Support Self-Care After Discharge

Translating Evidence into Practice Projects (incorporate evidence into practice; translate practice guidelines; develop, implement, and/or evaluate practice initiatives). Evidence-based Practice Projects might use the IOWA Model, the Advancing Research & Clinical Practice through Close Collaboration, the Academic Center for Evidence-Based Practice, the Promoting Action on Research Implementation, the Stetler Model, the John Hopkins Hospital Nursing Evidence-based Practice Model, the JBI Model of Evidence-based Healthcare, or the Rosswurm and Larrabee Model, to name a few. Regis College oftentimes uses the Rosswurm and Larrabee Model as an exemplar for evidence-based practice

Examples:

• Translation of Autism Screening Research into Practice
• An Evidence-Based Toolkit to Prevent Meningococcal Meningitis in College Students
• An Evidence-Based Ovarian Cancer Education Toolkit: A Pilot Study
• Evidence-Based Practice Update for Nurse Practitioners in Urgent Care
• Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in an Acute-Care Hospital
• Development of an Evidence-Based, In-Patient Alcohol Detoxification Guideline for Culturally Diverse Adults

Clinical or Practice-based Inquiry Projects (asking questions about clinical practice)

Examples:

• Predictors of the First-Year Nursing Students at Risk for Early Departure
• Prevalence of Symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis Patients
• The Predictive Value of Second Trimester Blood Pressures on the Development of Preeclampsia

Healthcare Delivery Innovation Projects (leading interdisciplinary teams, using technology to promote change, cultural competency advances)

Examples:

• Development of a Web-Based Health Information Database and Call Center
• A Web-Based Group Intervention for Patients with Recurrent or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
• Development of a Virtual Nursing Learning Lounge to Bridge the Practice Gap
• Interdisciplinary Simulation Training for Evidence-Based Obstetric Crisis Management

Program Development and Evaluation Projects. Program Evaluation Projects might use the CDC Framework, Logic Model, Balanced Scorecard, or Context, Input, Process and Product, to name a few.

Examples:

• A Strategic Plan for the Development of a Model of Care for HIV Co-Infected Diabetics in an Inner-City Clinic
• Smoking Cessation Program for Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
• An Evaluation of a School-Based Asthma Protocol
• A Medication Safety Education Program to Reduce the Risk of Harm Caused by Medication Errors
• Effectiveness of Chronic Disease Self-Management Programs for Mentally Ill Inmates with Diabetes
• A Multi-Method Approach to Evaluating Online Distance Learning in Nursing Education
• Strategic Plan for a Patient-Centered Medical Home Adaptation
• Development of a Strategic Plan for a Dedicated Education Unit and Clinical Teaching Associate Role

Demonstration Projects (test and measure the effects of program changes in real-world situations)

Examples:

• A Community Based Approach to Promoting Nutritional Awareness and Improving Dietary Habits
• Empowering Community Health: A Faith-Based Approach
• Safe Foot Care in African American Type 2 Diabetes
• Effects of Health Education on Nutrition and Physical Activity of School Children

Healthcare Policy (opportunities to advocate)

Examples:

• Leadership, Advocacy, and Policy: Development of a Professional Organization for Doctors of Nursing Practice
• Criterion-Based Job Description and Performance Assessment for the Advanced Practice Nurse
• Nursing Informatics Certification and Competencies: A Report on the Current State and Recommendations for the Future
• Nursing Incivility: Leadership Response

Generating New Evidence or Knowledge (quantitative, qualitative, mixed-methods research studies)

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of discussion. Review and reply to two posts.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 8: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 7: Aligning Design, Method, and Evaluation with the Clinical Question pp. 155-185.
• Holly, C. (2019). Practice-Based Scholarly Inquiry and the DNP Project (2nd ed.). Springer.
  • Part 1 Chapter 3: The DNP Project

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Week 8 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Report of the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP.
2. Review of documenting into CoreElms.
3. Discuss additional resources that may be needed, such as administrative, statistical, or technological.
4. Discuss the chosen EBP model that supports the proposed project.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 5 Assignment 3: SLO 3 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 3

Develop systems supportive of effective communication at the organizational and interdisciplinary level.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the SLO and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your SPP.
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine SLOs and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 5 Assignment 1: Scholarly Practice Project SPP Background

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Assignments

Instructions

The background should build a logical, rational, argument for doing the project. It should be very well referenced and represent a brief synthesis of the literature that you read in order to build your argument. By the time the reader finishes it, he or she should be able to guess the purpose of your project without reading any further. According to the guidelines” Background; this should be approximately 2-5 pages and well referenced.

In a Word document, submit the background portion of your SPP only for faculty review.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 5: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Bradshaw, M., & Vitale, T. (2020). The DNP Project Workshop: A Step-by-Step Process for Success (1st ed.). Springer
  • Chapter 4 Developing the DNP Project Background and Context p 91-128.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Week 6 Discussion: SPP Significance

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

The major focus of this week’s SPP Paper will be the Significance section. Review page 282 of Moran, et al. (2020) that outlines the elements to be included in the significance expanding on the introduction. According to Moran et al. (2020, p. 282), “Why is it important for this work to be completed? What are the problems that have been identified, and what are the implications? Why should the reader be interested in this topic?” The Significance sections provides the reader with an understanding of the problem and where the problem is occurring. (Moran et al, 2020).

In a Word document, develop the Significance section. You will address the importance of the identified problem to You will address the importance of the identified problem to nursing practice, research, education, leadership and/or administration. Please briefly describe how implementation of your SPP may impact nursing practice. You will want to tell the reader why your topic is significant in regards to nursing practice, research, education, leadership and/or administration. Therefore you will have four paragraphs, one for nursing practice, one for research, one for education and one for leadership /administration.

Replies

Review and respond to at least two other students’ initial posts with questions, thoughts, and/or suggestions.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 6: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Page 282, Background and Significance section.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Week 6 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP.

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are as follows:

1. Report your status of the week’s independent work on your SPP.
2. Review yourdocumenting into CoreElms.
3. Discuss the significance of your SPP proposal.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 6 Assignment 2: SLO 4 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 4

Generate knowledge through research and/or evidence-based practice to advance the nursing profession.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the SLO and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your SPP.
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 3 Discussion 1: SPP Research Question and Validated Instrument

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

After reading and reviewing Bradshaw and Vitale’s learning materials, you will develop your PICO question and look in the literature and explore a validated tool, which will be used in your study.

Review the PICO video, which describes the Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome. State your clinical/research question in the PICO format and post.
Review the following example.

• Population describes the sample population.
• Intervention names the clinical intervention or therapies of interest.
• Comparison identifies a comparison intervention or the intervention is compared to usual care or procedure.
• Outcome describes the outcome or consequences.

For those who are working on a qualitative study, your PICO will not identify an intervention. Review Polit and Beck (2021, p. 34), for all types of PICO questions.

In preparation for our Zoom meeting next week, consider the following items to discuss:

1. What is the problem you would like to investigate?
2. Are you thinking about a quantitative study, where you will implement an intervention, or perhaps a qualitative study to assess the meaning or process? If you are unfamiliar with the types of research, take the time to review them in your research book prior to the Zoom session. Also, review the PICO question format in Polit and Beck (2021, p. 34).
3. What is the population of focus?
4. What type of intervention or treatment do you want to employ?
5. How will you implement the intervention? How will this be delivered? Who will it be delivered to?
6. What do you want to measure? Review the independent and dependent variables.
7. How do you plan to translate your findings into practice?

Here is an example:

Let’s say you want to structure and investigate a telephonic management program to enhance self-care for adults with diabetes in rural areas and to compare to the usual care in an urban area.

• P = adults with diabetes in rural area
• I = telephonic management program
• C = urban area
• O = self-care (You will want to assess the education from the telephone session along with HgA1C and perhaps other measures.)

Therefore, PICO your question will be:

In adults with diabetes who live in rural areas, what is the effect of a telephonic management program compared to usual care in an urban area on self-care?

Once you conduct the study, how would you translate this into practice?

Would you go to the local health department, primary care office, or home care to implement a program?

Also, you should begin to explore a tool that you will use in your study to measure the outcome variable of your PICO.

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of the PICO Development discussion. Reply to at least two posts and offer insight on the PICO questions content and structure. Offer comments on the validated tools selected for the study.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 3: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• • Chapter 6 Developing the DNP Project
  • Chapter 7: Aligning Design, Method, and Evaluation with the Clinical Question
  • Chapter 10: Creating and Developing the Project Plan
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 6 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 7 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 10 (PPT)
• Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2016). Nursing research: Generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (10th ed.). Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins pp. 33-34
• Bradshaw, M., & Vitale, T. (2020). The DNP Project Workshop: A Step-by-Step Process for Success, (1st ed.). Springer
  • Lesson 5.2 Formalizing a Question using PICOT pp. 137-140.
  • Lesson 7.8 Evaluation of Outcome and Process pp. 209-212.

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Video

PICO: A Model for Evidence-Based Research

PICO: A Model for Evidence-Based Research Video Transcript

Week 3 Assignment 2: SLO 1 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 1

Evaluate the theoretical bases for nursing as they support organizations in achievement of adaptation and culturally competent care for healthcare delivery.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the Student Learning Outcome (SLO)and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your Scholarly Practice Project (SPP).
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine SLOs and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 3 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Instructions

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are:

1. Structuring your PICO question.
2. Discussion regarding the research question.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 4 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Introduction

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP.

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are as follows:

1. Report the status of the week’s independent work on your SPP.
2. Review your documenting into CoreElms.
3. Discuss the development of your SPP statement of the problem.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 4: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
  • Chapter 5: The Phenomenon of Interest
  • Chapter 6: Developing the DNP Project
  • Chapter 12: The Proposal
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 5 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 6 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 12 (PPT)
• Bradshaw, M., & Vitale, T. (2020). The DNP Project Workshop: A Step-by-Step Process for Success, (1st ed.). Springer. 
  • Lesson 4.1 Revising the Problem Statement p. 94.
• Bonnel, W., & Smith, K. (2021). Proposal writing for clinical nursing and DNP projects. (3rd ed.). Springer.
  • SECTION 1 Writing your proposal; putting your “problem” in context pp. 29-56

Instructional Materials

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams.

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Video

Research Problem and Purpose Statement

Work Before Your Research Question (12:36 Minutes)

Research Problem and Purpose Statement Video Transcript

Week 4 Assignment 2: SLO 2 Integrating Student Learning Outcomes and DNP Essentials

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 3

Grading Category: Assignments

Overview

Student Learning Outcome 2

Synthesize evidence from research and theory to enhance the delivery of quality health care.

DNP Essential Domain 1: Knowledge for Nursing Practice

Descriptor: Integration, translation, and application of established and evolving disciplinary nursing knowledge and ways of knowing, as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences. This distinguishes the practice of professional nursing and forms the basis for clinical judgment and innovation in nursing practice.

Instructions

Please complete the following:

• Review the SLOs and the DNP Essential.
• Discuss how you plan to meet the SLOs and the Essentials at this stage of your SPP.
• Review the entry-level and advanced-level sub-competencies in the DNP Essentials. Examine what may be applicable to your project.
• Create a Word document that will become a living document, which you will continuously revisit and adapt as you progress through NU740–743.
• Upload your Word document to this assignment for instructor review and feedback.

The purpose of this assignment is to recognize how the SLOs and DNP Essentials influence your SPP and nursing practice. The goal is to document how you have met all nine SLOs and DNP Essentials upon DNP graduation.

In Week 13, you will post the completed Word document into your Core Elms ePortfolio.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 4 Assignment 3: Current Scholarly Practice Project (SPP) Submission

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: SPP Paper

Instructions

This week, you will incorporate the research question and statement of the problem in your draft.

In the statement of the problem, you want to identify 4-6 reasons for the problem that you identified. Start out with a list, then structure a sentence or two for each of the listed items. When you get to the background, you can use each item on your list and expound on the item/issue in a paragraph(s). This will provide congruency for the reader and enhance the flow of ideas. Have you identified reasons for your study?

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 5 Assignment 2: Zoom Meeting with Course Instructor

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Zoom Meetings

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your SPP

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are as follows:

1. Report your status of the week’s independent work on your SPP.
2. Review your documenting into CoreElms.
3. Discuss the background of your SPP Proposal.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 1 Discussion: DNP Goals and Competency

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post byDay 3and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, byDay 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Moran, Burson, & Conrad (2020, p. 18) indicates the doctoral education has two paths. Compare the DNP and PhD in nursing components and outline the difference in their goals and competencies of graduates. Why did you choose to pursue a DNP?

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of discussion. Reply to two other posts and offer insight into the expected DNP goals and competency.
Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 1: Tools to Be Successful in this Course

Please participate in the following interactive media pieces to gain a better understanding of the course structure and how the courses work together as well as developing engaging and professional presentation and research processes.

• DNP Course Structure
• Creating PowerPoint Presentations
• The Research Process

Week 1: Learning Materials

Readings

Required

• Moran, K. J., Burson, R., & Conrad, D. (2020). The doctor of nursing practice project: A framework for success (3rd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

• • Chapter 1: Setting the Stage for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Project
  • Chapter 2: Defining the Doctor of Nursing Practice: Current Trends
  • Chapter 11: Driving the Practicum to Impact the DNP Project
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 1 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 2 (PPT)
• Moran Textbook PowerPoint – Chapter 11 (PPT)
• PICO and Developing Search Strategy (PDF)

Instructional Materials

• SPP Proposal Defense PPT Template (PPT)
• DNP Connections

The expectation is that you will explore and review all instructional materials to meet the criteria of the course, to further your understanding of course content, and to help you prepare for upcoming assignments and exams. You will begin to use the Core Elms in Week 3 to allow time for the registration process.

• Core Elms Login
• Core Elms Student User Guide (PPT)
• Guidelines for Scholarly DNP Project NU740-743 (PDF)
• Regis College Nursing Handbook Addendum, DNP Section Review
• Roles and Responsibilities of Committee Members and Students (Word)
• The Essentials of Doctoral Education for Advanced Nursing Practice (PDF)

Videos

• The Research Process: Topic Selection Video (10:20 minutes)
  • The Research Process: Topic Selection Video Transcript

The Research Process (2:57 minutes)

The Research Process Video Transcript

Quantitative and Qualitative – What’s the difference? (2:25 minutes)

Quantitative and Qualitative – What’s the difference? Video Transcript

Week 1 Assignment 1: Zoom Meeting

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Instructions

Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to meet as a group or individually to review course content that will contribute to the development of your (SPP).

During this week’s meeting with your course instructor, the topics for discussion are as follows:

1. Review the SPP Proposal condensed template (Word) and the SPP Project Proposal Defense template (PPT)
2. Review the individual self-assessment of scholarly writing and APA formatting abilities.
3. Review the Regis College resources for writing and APA formatting support.
4. Submit a two-paragraph summary of your discussion with your instructor.

Instructions for Using Zoom

If there are any associated assignments or tasks that are due following your live session, please upload them to this assignment using the instructions below.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 1 Assignment 2: Syllabus Exercise

Value: Complete/Incomplete

Due: Day 7

Instructions

To ensure that everyone understands the resources and what is available in the syllabus, please complete the following exercise.

The syllabus contains a lot of information that will be useful to you over the course of the term. Make sure that your submission states that you have read the syllabus, understand the information, and are clear about the expectations and responsibilities of this course. In addition, list one new item that you learned after reading the syllabus.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your files to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.

Week 2 Discussion: DNP Project Taskforce

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3 and reply to at least two of your colleagues, on two separate days, by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

According to Moran et al. (2020, pp. 55-56), a DNP Project should

• Encompass multiple aspects to the DNP Essentials.
• Be broadly practice based (health system, population, or policy).
• Are quality improvement, demonstration projects, clinical inquiry, or translation of EBP or program evaluation?
• Understand the needs of the stakeholders.
• Must contain evidence synthesis, leadership, and a measurement of outcomes.
• Include the necessary project elements of planning, implementing and evaluation components.
• Focus on changes that impact healthcare outcomes though direct or indirect care with a system or population.
• Cover the implementation of the project; demonstrates and appropriate area of practice including evaluation of the process and its outcomes and a plan for sustainability.
• Contain rigor; a systematic, logical and thorough approach in the design and implementation addressing a significant problem, including the evaluation of appropriate metrics.
• Use of valid and reliable data collection and analyzing methods to facilitate project outcomes.

It should briefly describe the DNP Task Force Recommendations for Implementation of the DNP Project and Expectations (Moran et al. 2020, p. 28)

Replies

Review other students’ initial posts to gain additional insight on the topic of discussion. Reply to two of your peers and offer insight.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

Posting to the Discussion Forum

1. Select the appropriate Thread.
2. Select Reply.
3. Create your post.
4. Select Post to Forum.

Week 2 Assignment: Annotated Bibliography

Value: 100 points

Due: Day 7

Grading Category: Annotated Bibliography

Overview

Scholarly writing is an expectation in the course and program. Writing resources include Pearson Writer and Smarthinking.

An important part of your work in this course is a review of articles related to the topic of your major project. An annotated bibliography is a method you can use to summarize and assess the articles you plan to use for your Scholarly Practice Project Paper.

For this assignment, you are required to write an annotated bibliography for one research article related to the topic of your Scholarly Practice Project Paper. The bibliography should reflect the research you are doing related to your topic of interest.

Guidelines

1. You will write an annotated bibliography for one research article related to your topic of interest. The annotated bibliographic entry for the article should be two to three paragraphs for a total of no more than two pages in length.
2. The OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab has a good guide to writing annotated bibliographies; you are encouraged to follow the format outlined on this site specifically relating to the summarization, assessment, and reflection. Following are excerpts from the Purdue guide and should be used to direct the writing of your annotated bibliography.
   1. Summarize. Some annotations merely summarize the source. What are the main arguments? What is the point of this book or article? What topics are covered? If someone asked what this article/book is about, what would you say? The length of your annotations will determine the degree of detail of your summary.
   2. Assess. Is it a useful source? How does it support the focus of your paper? Is the information reliable? Is this source biased or objective? What is the goal of this source?
   3. Reflect. Ask how this source fits into your research. Was this source helpful to you? How does it help you shape your argument? How can you use this source in your research project? Has it changed how you think about your topic?
3. Write your annotated bibliography in your own words. Do not use the abstract of the article as your annotated bibliography.
4. The article you select must be at a graduate level. All must come from academic/professional-level referenced journals. You cannot use articles from introductory nursing journals (such as RN, AJN).
5. Lastly and most importantly, if you have any questions, please contact your faculty.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded.

To Submit Your Assignment:

1. Select the Add Submissions button.
2. Drag or upload your file to the File Picker.
3. Select Save Changes.