NURS 780 - Capstone Experience and Clinical Practicum I
5 Credits
The DNP Capstone is a practice immersion experience that is designed to provide the student the opportunity to integrate and synthesize the essentials and specialty requirements necessary to demonstrate competency in an area of specialized nursing practice. The Capstone experience consists of two consecutive courses. It is expected that these courses will be taken successively, without interruption. This immersion experience requires a total of 500 practice hours in the student’s specialty focus. The practice hours are divided across the two courses.
During the DNP Capstone courses, the student will plan and complete a final project that uses evidence to improve either practice, patient outcomes or the practice environment. This project may take many forms. For example, the final DNP product might be a practice change initiative, a pilot study, a program evaluation, a quality improvement project, an evaluation of a new practice model, a consulting project, an integrated critical literature review, a manuscript submitted for publication, systematic review, a research utilization project, a practice topic dissemination, or other practice project. The theme that links these forms of scholarly experiences is the use of evidence to improve either practice or patient outcomes. The final DNP project is a tangible and deliverable academic product that is derived from the practice immersion experience and is reviewed and evaluated by an academic committee.
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