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NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
As a nurse and a doctoral student, you have already developed a set of skills and the expertise that have enabled you to contribute to the nursing profession and to those you serve. Yet, your call to advanced practice warrants a deeper understanding of issues and approaches, particularly in your area of specialty practice. To practice at the highest level, you must be able to analyze a health care problem using reasoning, theory, research, and experience.
As you move forward in this course, you will create an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project, in which you will evaluate the scientific foundations of a health care issue in your specialty area, apply effective practices, identify and evaluate outcomes, and develop new practice guidelines. This week, you will become familiar with the requirements of the EBP Project, which will be completed as part of your practicum experience. To help you prepare for your practicum, this week you reflect on your own potential for professional growth and create learning objectives to guide your experience. The EBP Project must be completed during this practicum experience and is not the same as your DNP project that you are developing with the guidance of your DNP faculty chair and committee in the mentoring courses. NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
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Learning Objectives for NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
Students will:
- Formulate a EBP Project question incorporating theory, knowledge, research, reasoning, and nursing practice
- Assess areas for professional growth within the practicum experience
| Looking Ahead You are required to keep a log of the time you spend related to your practicum experience. You can access your time log from the Welcome page in your Meditrek account. Please make sure to continuously input your hours throughout the term. Time logs are reviewed by your instructors in weeks 3, 7, and 11. |
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Learning Resources
Note: To access this week’s required library resources, please click on the link to the Course Readings List, found in the Course Materials section of your Syllabus.
Required Readings
Terry, A. J. (2018). Clinical research for the doctor of nursing practice (3rd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
- Chapter 2, “Developing the Researchable Problem”
Jeffs, L., Beswick, S., Lo, J., Campbell, H., Ferris, E., & Sidani, S. (2013). Defining what evidence is, linking it to patient outcomes, and making it relevant to practice: Insight from clinical nurses. Applied Nursing Research, 26, 105-109.
Melnyk, B.M., Fineout-Overhold, E., Stillwell, S.B., & Williamson, K.M. (2010). Evidence-based practice step-by-step: The seven steps of evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110(1), 51-53.
Note:Â You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Stillwell, S. B., Fineout-Overholt, E., Melnyk, B. M., & Williamson, K. M. (2010). Evidence-based practice, step by step: Asking the clinical question: A key step in evidence-based practice. American Journal of Nursing, 110(3), 58–61. NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
Note:Â You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Tschannen, D., Aebersold, M., Kocan, M., Lundy, F., & Potempa, K. (2015). Improving patient care through student leadership in team quality improvement projects. Journal Nursing Care Quality, 30(2), 181-186.
Note:Â You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
Document: Clinical Time Log and Journal (Word document)
Document: Literature Review Matrix (Word document)
Document: NURS 8410 Practicum Journal Template (Word document)
Discussion: Developing an Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project Question
Consider issues related to your nursing practice. What stands out to you about your specialty area? What questions or concerns do you think are especially in need of attention? Why? How would you most like to contribute to the knowledge base of your profession?
The EBP Project provides a significant opportunity for furthering the nursing profession. Formulating a specific, applicable question is a necessary first step for developing your project. The question defines the focus of the EBP Project and guides your selection of research methods and tools. Think about aspects of your specialty area, and begin to formulate a question that relates to your nursing practice.
The primary purpose of this Discussion is to provide a forum in which you and your colleagues can support each other in cultivating a practice-related question. NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
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To prepare:
- Develop your EBP Project question using the PICO (patient group, issue or intervention, comparison, outcome) method as described in Chapter 2 of Clinical Research for the Doctor of Nursing Practice(p. 29) and other resources. Depending on your specialty area, you may modify the PICO method as necessary to be appropriate for your target population.
- Begin to complete the “Literature Review Matrix,” reviewing at least four to six research articles relevant to your specialty area and your EBP Project question. Note any areas of difficulty that you encounter, as well as any strategies or insights that might be beneficial to others.
- Reflect on the information presented in the McCurry, Revell, and Roy article listed in the Learning Resources.
- What questions or concerns, if any, do you have about how to develop your project question and/or expand your expertise in your specialty area?
By Day 3
Post a cohesive scholarly response that addresses the following:
- Share your project question, as you have developed it thus far.
- Discuss salient elements that inform your project question: theory, current research, nursing practice, and specialty knowledge.
- Pose any questions or concerns you may have related to developing your project question or literature review. You may also include any other issues related to expanding your expertise within your specialty area.
Read a selection of your colleagues’ responses.
By Day 6
Respond to two of your colleagues by providing feedback on their project question:
- Consider the following when providing feedback:
- Is the project question easily understood?
- Is the answer to the project question not immediately obvious?
- Can the project question be answered in the time available to the researcher?
You may also respond to your colleagues in the following ways:
- Ask a probing question, substantiated with additional background information, evidence, or research.
- Share an insight from having read your colleagues’ postings, synthesizing the information to provide new perspectives.
- Offer and support an alternative perspective, using readings from the classroom and/or from your own research in the Walden Library.
- Validate an idea with your own experience and additional research.
- Make a suggestion based on additional evidence drawn from readings or after synthesizing multiple postings.
- Expand on your colleagues’ postings by providing additional insights or contrasting perspectives based on readings and evidence.
Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you learned and/or any insights you gained as a result of the comments made by your colleagues.
Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and any additional sources.
Submission and Grading Information
Grading Criteria
To access your rubric:
Week 1 Discussion Rubric
Post by Day 3 and Respond by Day 6
To participate in this Discussion:
Week 1 Discussion
Assignment: Introduction to the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project
As a part of your practicum experience in this course, you will engage in a small-scale Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project. This project will enable you to apply many of the concepts presented in the Learning Resources; it provides an authentic learning experience to enhance your specialty area knowledge and support your growth as a scholar-practitioner.
Select the following link for an overview of the full EBP Project assignment.
NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
Document: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project Overview (Word document)
The document includes due dates. You do not need to submit anything this week, but begin thinking about and planning for this project as soon as possible. You may wish to discuss it with your Practicum Mentor as well.
Practicum: Planning Learning Objectives
The practicum experience allows you to develop and expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level. During week 1 you will submit two to three individual learning objectives that you wish to achieve during this practicum experience. You should prepare a set of measurable learning objectives, using Bloom’s Taxonomy. Your practicum objectives should reflect your interest in expanding knowledge. They are not to include activities related to your DNP project. These objectives will be identified during your mentoring course (NURS 8700P, 8700, 8701). Practice experiences should be designed achieve specific learning objectives related to the DNP Essentials and specialty competencies (AACN, 2006). NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
Your practicum objectives should include the following:
- Two to three learning objectives using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
- Description of how these objectives will expand your advanced nursing knowledge and skills at the aggregate, organizational, or policy level.
- Relationship of the learning objectives to the DNP Essentials.
NOTE: Learning objectives must be submitted using APA style. Points may be deducted for lack of references, writing style, and APA format.
Submit by Day 7
Ensure that all of the necessary paperwork has been submitted and approved. Remember, final approval for your practicum experience must come from your Instructor, and your practicum may not begin until the required documentation has been submitted and you have received Instructor approval.
Reminder:
Begin keeping track of your practicum hours using the provided time log. This time log needs to include the date, times (start and finish), total hours for the week, a brief description of what you did or observed during each time interval, and the objectives that are being addressed through your practicum activities. You can have more than one objective for each time interval.
In addition, you will submit a journal entry (along with your time log) in Weeks 3, 7, and 11. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature.
Submission and Grading Information
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To submit your completed Practicum for review and grading, do the following:
- Please save your Practicum using the naming convention “WK1Practicum+last name+first initial.(extension)” as the name.
- Click the Week 1 PracticumÂ
- Next, from the Attach File area, click on the Browse My Computer Find the document you saved as “WK1Practicum+last name+first initial.(extension)” and click Open.mNURS 8410 – Best Practices In Nursing Specialties weekly discussion essay assignments
- If applicable: From the Plagiarism Tools area, click the checkbox for I agree to submit my paper(s) to the Global Reference Database. NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
- Click on the Submit button to complete your submission.
To access your rubric:
Week 1 Practicum Rubric
Check Your Practicum Draft for Authenticity
To check your Practicum draft for authenticity:
Submit your Week 1 Practicum draft and review the originality report.
Submit Your Practicum by Day 7
To submit your Practicum:
Week 1Â Practicum: Journal Guidelines
You will submit your Clinical Time Log and Journal located in the Week 1 Learning Resources in Weeks 3, 7, and 11. Journal entries need to connect your previous professional experience with your practice, competencies/concepts in the program, and the literature. Your journal entry should be week-based and sequential so that all journal entries are contained in one file.
- Describe the observed activity (1point)
- Using an evidence-based approach, analyze the problem, issue, or situation. Address questions posed in the weekly practicum pages if appropriate. (2 points)
- Reveal how the real-world might mirror or diverge from program-related evidence, concepts, and/or theories. (2 points)
- Time Log submission (1 point)
Week in Review
This week, you formulated an EBP Project question and assessed areas for professional growth within the practicum experience.
Next week, you will develop your small-scale Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Project in your practicum setting. NURS 8410 Week 1: Developing a Focus in Your Specialty Area
To go to the next week: