Leadership and Management Principles

Capstone in Evidence-Based Professional Nursing Practice
Course Description
Students review and build upon leadership and management principles. Emphasis is placed on understanding the health care system and social forces affecting care delivery, effective leadership, patient outcomes, project management, health care policies, basic accounting principles, and entrepreneurship. Students use evidence-based resources, address health competencies and analyze an identified issue while developing a plan of interventions that incorporates current evidence for management of the identified issue. Students will present their capstone work via a poster or podium presentation. Presentation forums may be at their selected venue, at a professional conference, or conducted virtually.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Use information and technologies to monitor and provide quality patient care. (PLO 1)
2. Demonstrate cultural competence in nursing practice. (PLO 2)
3. Provide competent, evidence-based nursing care. (PLO 3)
4. Document nursing information and activities in support of safe patient care. (PLO 4)
5. Speak clearly and concisely in conveying healthcare information. (PLO 5)
6. Collaborate effectively with healthcare team members. (PLO 6)
7. Apply empirical research to nursing practice. (PLO 7)
8. Apply the Code of Ethics for Nurses in professional nursing practice. (PLO 8)
9. Objectively analyze and evaluate data to inform decision-making in nursing practice. (PLO 9)

Welcome to Nurs 499 Capstone in Evidence-Based Professional Nursing Practice
The student will provide a proposal on the approved topic from NURS 378 using Evidence-Based Project in healthcare and their respective community setting. You will develop a protocol supported by evidence, review and critically appraise the literature regarding this topic, and develop a project proposal. The proposal should include the plan for implementation, and evaluation. During week 8, the student will present his/her EBP project and finally, create a poster suitable for presentation at a nursing conference or for publication. The Project must focus on the RN/BSN practice. Please consult your practicing state’s Nurse Practice Act. Your project proposal must not focus on interventions carried out by an Advanced Practice Nurse.
Concepts studied during your progression through the RN-BSN program should be clearly integrated into this assignment. This presentation demonstrates your achievement of the outcomes of the Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice as defined by the American Association of College of Nursing
There are eight modules in this course.
Module 1: Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) topic proposal from the identified health concern (approved topic) in NURS 378 (due week 1)
Module 2: Evidence-Based Practice Timeline and Plan (due by Week 2)
Module 3: Literature Review (due end of Week 3)
Module 4: Stakeholder Analysis (due end of Week 4)
Module 5: Stakeholder Communication (due end of Week 5)
Module 6: Evidence-Based Practice Design Paper (due end of Week 6)
Evidence-Based Practice Design Paper
• Background: Community Health Concern and Identification
• Facilitators and Barriers to EBP Implementation
• Organizational Culture
• Proposal for the next steps to address the identified health concern
Module 7: Evidence-based Practice Presentation, Part I
• Presentation in synchronous class session (TBA, Week 7)
• Instructor will schedule presentation date and time
Module 8: Evidence-based Practice Poster Presentation, Part II
• Poster presentation, voice-narrated powerpoint.

Welcome to Week 8
During week eight, you will share your final evidence-based project with peers and faculty via a narrated Poster presentation, discuss your experience with the project and critique peer poster presentations in the discussion forum.

The gap between discovery of public health knowledge and the application in practice settings and policy development is largely due to ineffective dissemination. A research gap is a known fact in many disciplines. The delivery method should be selected based on the medium most effective to convey the meaning of the message. Since communication methods are so diverse, decisions about the delivery method must suit the communication needs of both the sender and the receiver.
The content of the message should be clear and presented and described in enough detail to obtain understanding from the receiver. If the message content resonates and connects, on some level, with the already-held beliefs of the receiver, it is most effective.

Assignment Prompt
Reflect and discuss:
a. How the course content and assignments met the course learning outcomes;
b. Provide examples of actual or potential applications for the week eight course concepts.
c. Successes or challenges that you encountered in regard to the course content.
d. Provide a concise summary of how you plan to apply your new knowledge as you transition to the BSN/RN role.

Additional Information
I’ve been a registered nurse for 15 years. I work in psychiatric nursing. This is the final class/assignment before achieving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree (BSN).