Conducting The Dnp Project

A “how-to” approach to navigating the strenuous path from DNP plan to completed project You completed your DNP proposal and have approval to proceed: What’s next? How do you move from proposal phase to conduct and complete your project? This text is the first to discuss the practical steps to implement and complete the project and will help DNP students to systematically transition from plan to action. Written by an author with extensive experience helping students with their quality improvement projects, the text educates readers on the core components of conducting the clinical scholarly project. With a focus on working effectively with clinical staff, the book addresses IRB approval; ethics; working with human subjects; project planning; collecting, analyzing, and interpreting clinical data; disseminating findings; and how to complete the project in a timely manner. It discusses interprofessional collaboration, team building, and how to debrief project participants. Examples of successful scholarly projects and recommendations for project improvement offer additional guidance, along with consideration of common problems that many students face and how to resolve them. Objectives and review questions are provided in selected chapters. Key Features: Delivers practical, step-by-step strategies for implementing and completing the DNP project Focuses on finding and effectively communicating with team members Explains how to collect, analyze, and interpret clinical data Describes how to establish protocol for working with patients Offers chapter objectives, review questions, and case studies demonstrating major content components

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The Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project: A Framework for Success, Second Edition focuses on assisting students and faculty with creating a system for the completion of the DNP scholarly project.

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller. Streamlines the DNP Project into clear, concrete, and manageable steps Authored by nurse educators with an in-depth understanding of the challenges of the DNP Project, this text provides sequential, guided activities designed to jump-start and project students forward through the DNP Project process. By incorporating active learning activities into project development, the workbook delivers a proven method for developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining the DNP Project. It fosters critical thinking and innovation, while also providing a means for faculty to measure and document the progress of project milestones. The DNP Project Workbook offers more than 100 activities that address all facets of the DNP Project, including the identification, investigation, and framing of problems; project team assembly; research; methodology; implementation; and dissemination. This resource also includes examples of a variety of DNP Projects to demonstrate the successful integration of all elements. The activities may be completed within the workbook or in online, editable PDFs for easy submission to faculty. Supplemental resources include PowerPoint slides, a DNP Essentials mapping document, and blank activities and templates. Key Features: Provides sequential, guided activities designed to jump-start and project students forward through the DNP Project process Offers more than 100 active learning activities that address all facets of the DNP Project Delivers a proven method for developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining DNP Projects Facilitates measurement and documentation of project milestones Features examples of a variety of DNP Projects Includes a robust resources package, including PowerPoint slides, a DNP Essentials mapping document, and editable activity forms

Practical guide to understanding the DNP degree and to completing a successful capstone projectClinical, education, and policy exemplars of successful DNP Capstone projects illustrate the necessary components and approach. Provides guidance on publicizing results and conducting projects as a DNP This textbook focuses on enhancing understanding, and characterizing the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree, and its place in the current healthcare environment. The book offers guidelines for planning and conducting all phases of a DNP capstone project. Examples of successful projects from varied areas of nursing practice are included along with practical tips for publicizing capstone project results to the wider medical community.

Praise for the First Edition: “This wonderful and informative resource provides a definitive base of information for those engaged in clinical inquiry. It not only presents the information in a systematic format, it also provides specific examples of projects that have been completed by advanced practice nurses.” Score 100, 5 Stars -Doody’s Medical Reviews This one-of-a-kind resource is specifically designed to guide DNP students in the essentials of conducting practice-based studies. It demystifies the process by helping students to identify the methodology that best fits their project idea, envision the key elements of the project, design, set up, and run the project, and write up and disseminate the project outcome. In addition to being substantially updated throughout, the second edition includes four new chapters and reflects current literature, with updated references and suggested readings. Additionally, each chapter concludes with a Discussion Guide to assist faculty in pinpointing key points within the chapter. The only book to address the complexities of clinical inquiry from a practice perspective rather than research perspective. The book builds on basic research concepts that, combined with the knowledge and experience gained by the APRN student, facilitate an in-depth understanding of how clinical research differs from traditional quantitative research. Packed with practical steps and tools, the book fosters the development of such skills as finding data, and reading, critiquing, and translating research to support evidenced-based practice within the health care system, either with a specific population, or for policy development. The text is based on the Scholarship of Integration and Application, one of the core DNP competencies, and is organized to build from simple to greater complexity. Each chapter features learning objectives, learning activities, and review questions. New to the Second Edition: Substantially updates all chapters Includes four new chapters: The DNP Project, Finding and Critiquing the Best Evidence, Descriptive Projects, and Disseminating Results New content reflects current literature Offers updated references and suggested readings Chapters conclude with a Discussion Guide to aid faculty and students to identify and explore key points Key Features: Delivers clear, essential guidance for clinical inquiry and research used to demonstrate practice outcomes Written by an esteemed educator highly experienced in teaching clinical inquiry Illustrates the application of “Scholarship of Integration and Application” , a core competency for the DNP Guides readers in DNP student program/project design and evaluation Presents content systematically from simple to complex

This guide provides an effective plan that enables students to disseminate their doctor of nursing practice (DNP) projects. It describes the process of disseminating the final written assignment as recommended by the American Academy of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) for graduation from a DNP program. By sharing these projects with improved dissemination of knowledge and research, DNPs can improve health care. This book provides step-by-step instruction for all methods of dissemination--from print to digital media. It provides detailed instructions for each type of dissemination and highlights specific resources and their benefits and drawbacks. It includes explanations of how to use social media, web-based platforms, and alternative artistic means.

Provides guidance to students throughout the DNP Project process, from topic selection to findings dissemination and Project presentationPresents 12 successful project exemplars by recent DNP graduates in leadership, education, and clinical and policy development?Includes a robust 60+ page instructor's manual provided free to professors who adopt the book as a required text - manual includes instructor tool-kits, vignettes, course objectives, proposed assignments, and case studies for class room discussionDescribes strategies for overcoming common challenges and barriers such as getting through the institutional review board, data analysis, and English as a second languageThe DNP degree supports the nurse's ability to take evidence-based practice from the review of the literature and apply it in practice to advance care delivery, healthcare systems, nursing education, policy development or nursing practice. The DNP project reflects the culmination of this degree and this book will guide the DNP student from the choice of a topical project to the final presentation. Guidance is provided on general but critical topics such as working with your professor and choosing a mentor. 12 successful project exemplars are included by recent DNP graduates in leadership, education, and clinical and policy development. Strategies are offered on how to overcome barriers with a review of the literature, narrowing the topic, getting through the institutional review board, data analysis, developing and working from an outline for a project, and dissemination of findings.