NURS 780 - DNP Project I - Clinical

(2 credits)

This course is the first in a series of three DNP Project courses and will focus on the initial steps in the evidence based practice process. Students will identify a phenomenon of interest and potential practice change that is directed toward improving healthcare outcomes, evaluating the quality of evidence supporting a change, establishing a project team/key stakeholders, and evaluating internal and external facilitators and barriers to the potential change. Prerequisites: NURS 600 - Scientific and Ethical Foundations, NURS 606 - Nursing Information Management & Decision Making, NURS 608 - Organizational and Systems Leadership, NURS 614 - Evidence-Based Practice or NURS 714 - Translation of Evidence to Practice, and NURS 701 - Applied Biostatistics. Corequisites: NURS 612 - Advanced Health Promotion and NURS 613 - Advanced Health Promotion Clinical, Grade only. Offered fall and spring semesters. Repeatable once.