Your capstone change project begins this week when you identify a practice issue that you believe needs to change.

The practice issue must pertain to a systematic review that you must choose from a List of Approved Systematic Reviews for the capstone project.

Choose a systematic review from the list of approved reviews based on your interests or your practice situation.

Formulate a significant clinical question related to the topic of the systematic review that will be the basis for your capstone change project.

Relate how you developed the question.

Describe the importance of this question to your clinical practice previously, currently, or in the future.

Describe what a research-practice gap is.

REFERENCE

American Nurses Association. (2015). Nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: Author.

Read Professional Nursing's Scope and Standards of Practice (description, development, and function), Integrating the Art and Science of Nursing, The Nursing Process, pp. 1-11, 110