DEVELOPING PRACTICE SCHOLARSHIP (CAPSTONE I)

Catalog description

This course prepares students to practice at the most advanced level of nursing and evaluate current approaches to practice, evaluate evidence, and use this knowledge to create clinical strategies that improve practice and health outcomes. The role of DNPs in improving knowledge of the profession, the evidence -based practice process, problem identification, and interpretation of evidence are discussed. In addition, the student identifies the problem for the research project and conducts the literature review. It facilitates the development of competencies related to person -centered care, population health, nursing discipline expe rtise, interprofessional collaboration, systems -based practice, and health care information and technologies. This course is the foundation for beginning the Capstone project that focuses on improving nursing practice or education. It requires 45 hours of theory and 100 hours of supervised practice.