Help students embark on their DNP journeys with confidence! Written by leading DNP education experts, Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project: A Guide for Students helps students plan for and anticipate the effort ahead, offering proven strategies to side-step common frustrations and impediments. This text also serves as a unique “how-to” guide that removes the confusion around DNP project purpose, rigor, and requirements, helping students plan, execute, and disseminate a high-quality project. Logically organized content is useful to consult throughout the program, making this a practical companion for students, faculty, preceptors, and mentors.
Concise, practical coverage leads students, faculty, preceptors, and mentors through all components of rigorous DNP projects, including planning, implementation, and dissemination
Historical perspective of the DNP degree explores its origins and discusses the role of the DNP in planning and leading change
Step-by-step guidance walks students through the process of planning, executing, and disseminating an evidence-based practice change
Publication and advocacy content provides valuable guidance on disseminating knowledge
Key Points to Remember section at the end of each chapter offers a helpful summary of essential content
1. Origin Story of the DNP 2. Essentials for Graduate Nurses 3. Understanding Your Why 4. Projects as Vehicles for Change 5. Becoming a Doctoral Student 6. Making the Most of Your Time 7. Activating Your Network 8. Optimizing Your Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience 9. Reverse Design: Setting Your Goals and Working Backward from There 10. The Complexities of Health Care Call for Team Spirit 11. Working with Your Advisor 12. Developing Your Leadership Presence 13. Becoming a Powerful Professional Writer 14. Selecting a Good Problem 15. Theory-Guided Practice 16. Translation and Change Models 17. Planning and Implementing Your Project 18. Seeking Approval from the Institutional Review Board or Other Body 19. Introduction to Working with Data: Planning to Get the Data You Need 20. Analyzing and Understanding Your Data 21. Putting it All Together and Thriving 22. Case Studies as Evidence of Competence 23. Portfolio as Evidence of Clinical Mastery 24. Simulation-Based Evidence of Competence 25. Project Evaluation as Evidence of Competence 26. Working with Children 27. Finding Your Voice: Moving from the BSN to the DNP 28. Anesthesia Practice Experiences 29. Iterative Nature of Doctoral Work 30. Complementary Practice Projects 31. Special Considerations for Team Projects 32. Intraprofessional Team Projects 33. Knowing Yourself as a DNP
Mary Frances Terhaar, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean for the Graduate Programs, Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA and Laura A. Taylor, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN, Professor and Program Director, Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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