cover image - Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323654104
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $74.99

Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project, 1st Edition

by Mary Frances Terhaar, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN and Laura A. Taylor, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN

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cover image - Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780323654104
Copyright: 2027
Page Count: 352
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $74.99
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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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