PURPOSE
The Course Project is a two-part series assignment, Part A was completed as the final assignment for NR712; and, Part B is to be completed in NR713.
Part A
Part A consisted of identify a quality improvement or evidence andknowledge based issue in an area of nursing practice (e.g., hospital, clinic, public health, non-governmental agency, global health, policy) relevant to your role as a DNP, and an area of interest for you (e.g., addressing hospital throughout issuesas a nurse executive, changing the clinic staffing matrix of an interdisciplinary clinic, lean and six sigma improvement strategies, identifying areas of nursing program growth as an administrative dean of an online nursing program).Part A consisted of identifying the significance of the problem and addressing the issue with supporting evidence from current literature.
Part B
Part B, to be completed as the final assignment for NR713, will relate to addressing the problem area through the use of various strategies and techniques - e.g., would the most optimal way to address the problem be through team collaboration, designing a business plan, addressing throughput issues, conducting a gap analysis, and/or utilizing financial techniques in addressing the needed change effort.Once the strategies are identified, the next step of this project will entail designing an implementation plan to address the problem area and the DNP leader's role in the change process.The final step of the project will be to identify three measurable outcomes to assess the success of the implementation plan.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Through this assignment, the student will demonstrate the ability to:
• 1: Integrate interprofessional collaboration and the DNP indirect care role across diverse healthcare settings.
• 2: Utilize DNP leadership strategies for advancing healthcare policyin selected healthcare systems change.
• 3: Compare and contrast driving and restraining forces that shape DNP leader response to advance quality and safety initiatives in healthcare using selected healthcare systems change.