About the Book
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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
Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers
Table of Contents:
Faculty Contributors and Reviewers
Student Contributors and Reviewers
Foreword David Anthony Forrester, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Preface
Introduction
Resources
1 Understanding the DNP Degree and DNP Project
2 Assembling the DNP Team and Becoming a Leader
3 Identifying Problems and Project Topics
4 Developing the DNP Project Background and Context
5 Skills for Formal Review of Literature and Evidence Appraisal
6 Framing the DNP Project: Taking Aim and Being SMART
7 Project Methodology: Develop, Implement, and Evaluate
8 Strategies to Organize, Disseminate, and Sustain DNP Project Findings
9 The DNP Experience
10 Finishing Strong: Project Profiles and Empowerment
Appendix: Project Management Resources
Index
About the Author :
Molly Bradshaw, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, CP-C is the current owner and Chief Executive Officer for her company, DNPmollyB, LLC where she works as a consultant and educator. She maintains a full-time clinical practice at First Choice Immediate Care, in Columbia, Kentucky. She completed her undergraduate nursing degrees at Eastern Kentucky University (1998, 2001); got her master's degree at the University of Kentucky (2005); and earned her doctor of nursing practice degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2016). She is nationally board certified as both a family and a women's health nurse practitioner, as well as a Veteran of the United States Navy. In the academic setting she has been a former associate professor, DNP program coordinator, and faculty innovator at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky. Also, she has been full time faculty at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her academic scholarship is rooted in teaching innovation, use of infographics/social media, and the DNP Project. Her published works focus on clinical subjects such as prescribing habits of nurse practitioners and chronic disease management, including hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obesity, and multiple sclerosis. She is engaged in training and content creation for emerging Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) programs and Community Paramedics.
Tracy R. Vitale, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC, has been a nurse for more than 20 years and is currently an associate professor and specialty director of DNP Projects/DNP Project courses at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Nursing, Newark, New Jersey. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from The College of New Jersey (2000), her master's in nursing from the University of Phoenix (2006), and a doctor of nursing practice degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2016). Prior to transitioning to academia in 2017, her nursing career included leadership positions in maternal-fetal medicine research, outpatient private maternal-fetal medicine and high-risk obstetrics practice, and labor and delivery/perinatal evaluation and treatment departments. Dr. Vitale sits on the board of directors for the Organization of Nurse Leaders of New Jersey and is actively involved with the research committee. She also serves on the advisory council for the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing, which focuses on nursing workforce issues and is the Region 4 Vice President of Policy and Practice for the New Jersey State Nurses Association. Dr. Vitale also serves as a manuscript reviewer for select journals.
