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Course Title: NRSG 675 DNP Scholarly Project

Credits: 3 (0 didactic, 3 clinical learning lab)

Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring

Prerequisites: NRSG 604, NRSG 605, NRSG 608, NRSG 610, NRSG 611, NRSG 613, NRSG 615, NRSG 673

Degree: DNP

AACN Core Competencies for Advanced-level Nursing Education: Domains 1-10

MRJCON DNP Program Learning Outcome: 1-10

MRJCON NM Option Learning Outcomes: 9

ACNM Core Competencies: II.Q

 

Course Description:

The DNP Scholarly Project uses content accumulated in previous coursework to discover, apply, and synthesize advanced nursing knowledge to improve health outcomes. In the first semester, students identify, gather, and analyze appropriate data relevant to a clinical practice issue/deficiency and explores best practice to consider where gaps exist. In the second semester, students collaborate with relevant agency stakeholders to evaluate relevant project outcomes (patient outcomes, cost outcomes, and patient and provider satisfaction). Students disseminate project outcomes to relevant agency stakeholders and the broader profession. Students will successfully defend their project and finalize their written work for ETD submission.

Catalog Description:

Students will design and propose a scholarly project that exemplifies the discovery, application, synthesis of advanced nursing knowledge to improve health outcomes. Upon committee approval, students implement, evaluate, and disseminate through a formal oral and written defense.

 

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Examine a system-level practice issue that is impacting patient outcomes.
  2. Appraise evidence to address the practice issue to improve patient outcomes.
  3. Develop a system-level process improvement project to address system-level practice issues to improve patient outcomes.
  4. Execute a system-level process improvement project.
  5. Evaluate a system-level process improvement project based on structure, process, and outcome goals.
  6. Author a professional dissemination manuscript/ presentation to inform advanced nursing practice.

 

Exemplars of Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Create and propose a quality improvement project [CLO 1,2,3] *Key Exemplar Domain 6
  2. Implement, evaluate, and defend an approved scholarly project [CLO 4-6] *Key Exemplar Domain 7

 

Curricular Threads addressed in this course:

Communication

Ethics

Clinical Judgement

 

Recommended Content:

  • Conducting a scoping review to inform system-level practice change.
  • System-Level Quality Improvement
    • QI Models and Frameworks (IHI Model for Improvement, Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice, Replicating Effective Programs)
    • Understanding how errors happen (root cause analysis, fishbone diagrams, use of data)
    • Use of goal setting and evaluation metrics (structure, process, balancing, outcome)
  • SQUIRE Guidelines to plan and report on system-level quality improvement.
  • Ethical considerations for implementation and dissemination of system-level quality improvement work.
  • Quality and safety in advanced nursing practice (nurse practitioner & midwifery)

 

Recommended Clinical Experiences/ Sites:

  • Student is to identify a clinical or other agency that impacts health care that had a practice problem that can be addressed through a system-level quality improvement initiative.

 

Approved by GAAC: 4/5/19; 10/6/23; 11/1/24

Approved by Faculty:  5/2/2019; 12/13/23;