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Submit your 20-25 page final capstone project that synthesizes the work you completed in the previous four assessments
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Submit your 20-25 page final capstone project that synthesizes the work you completed
in the previous four assessments
instructions
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous
assessment. Therefore, you must complete the assessments in this course in the order in
which they are presented.
Congratulations! The finish line is in sight for both the capstone project you have been
working on all quarter and your Master’s of Science in Nursing program. Take a moment
to appreciate all you have accomplished and give yourself a pat on the back; you have
earned it!
Your final submission for your capstone project will bring together all of the sections you
have worked on throughout this course, as well as the relevant revisions you have made to
those sections based on feedback from your instructor, as well as feedback you have
received or observations you may have made during your practicum experience. True
professionals can learn to strive for continuous improvement in their work and
incorporate feedback from colleagues and leaders to help scaffold improvement efforts.
As a master’s-level nurse you will be expected to create and implement plans and evaluate
their outcomes. Being able to envision a pathway for a project to move from the idea
phase all the way through the evaluation phase is a critical skill. By successfully
synthesizing the various sections of this project together into one final artifact, you will
have demonstrated your competence in this essential skill.
Preparations
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Read Guiding Questions: Final Project Submission [DOC]. This document is
designed to give you questions to consider and additional guidance to help you
successfully complete this assessment.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other
related issues to deepen your understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You
are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow
learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your
professional community. Note that these questions are for your own
development and exploration and do not need to be completed or submitted as
part of your assessment.
o What is the most useful skill or concept you learned while pursuing
your MSN degree?
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How will you leverage your degree to help you reach your ideal
practice career path?
How will you be able to apply the work you have done on your
capstone project to improve your personal practice?
instructions
Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build
specific skills that you will use throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the
order in which they are presented.
For your final capstone project submission you will synthesize the work you completed in
the previous four assessments. Please make sure that you have made relevant revisions as
suggested by your instructor, as well as relevant additions that you uncovered during your
practicum experience. The only brand-new content that you will need to create for this
assessment is an Abstract and an Introduction.
This final submission will be graded using the seven program outcomes (POs) for the
Master’s of Science in Nursing program. As a reminder they are:
1. Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population
health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
2. Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational
decision making.
3. Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems
outcomes.
4. Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.
5. Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease
cost of care.
6. Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and
health care technologies to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of
care.
7. Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health,
and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
In addition, you will be assessed on how well you incorporated the feedback you received
from your instructor on your previous work in this course via the following criterion:
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Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of final product.
You will also be assessed on the completion of hours toward your practicum experience.
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Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these requirements.
Please carefully review the outline below to see which parts of the final submission will
align to which program outcomes. (Note: The bullet points in the outline correspond to
the grading criteria from your previous assessments. It may be worth putting in some
extra revisions on the material related to criteria on which you did not previously score as
well as you would have liked. You may also wish to read the Guiding Questions: Final
Project Submission document to better understand how each aspect of your submission
will be assessed.) It is important to remember that if you do a quality job addressing the
points below, you will meet all of the program outcomes. The alignment is provided for
transparency, but do not become preoccupied with how each point will feed into the
scoring guide.
Abstract
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Summarize the purpose, approach, and any relevant findings of the final
capstone project submission (PO #1).
Introduction
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Summarize your need, target population, and setting (PO #1).
Provide a high-level overview of your intervention plan (PO #4).
Justify the importance of your need and intervention plan (PO #1).
Provide a high-level overview of your implementation plan (PO #4).
Provide a high-level over view of your evaluation plan (PO #4).
Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should
be Problem Statement and not Part 1: Problem Statement.
Part 1: Problem Statement
Need Statement
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Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or
management need (PO #1).
Population and Setting
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Describe a target population and setting in which an identified need will be
addressed (PO #4).
Intervention Overview
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Explain an overview of one or more interventions that would help address an
identified need within a target population and setting (PO #3).
Comparison of Approaches
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Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with
regard to their possibilities to meet the needs of the project, population, and
setting. (PO #5).
Initial Outcome Draft
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Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments
of an intervention for a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention,
education or management need (PO #4).
Time Estimate
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Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an
intervention to address and identified need (PO #1).
Part 2: Literature Review
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Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness
within the target population and setting (PO #2).
Evaluate and synthesize resources from diverse sources illustrating existing
health policy that could impact the approach taken to address an identified
need (PO #7).
Part 3: Intervention Plan
Intervention Plan Components
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Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion,
quality improvement, prevention, education, or management need (PO #4).
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population
and setting on the development of intervention plan components (PO #4).
Theoretical Foundations
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Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and
health care technologies relevant to an intervention plan (PO #6).
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and
contemporary evidence from the literature and best practices (PO #2).
Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
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Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and
governing bodies relevant to health care practice and specific components of an
intervention plan (PO #7).
Ethical and Legal Implications
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Analyze relevant ethical and legal issues related to health care practice,
organizational change, and specific components of an intervention plan (PO
#1).
Part 4: Implementation Plan
Management and Leadership
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Propose strategies for leading, managing, and implementing professional
nursing practices to ensure interprofessional collaboration during the
implementation of an intervention plan (PO #5).
Analyze the implications of change associated with proposed strategies for
improving the quality and experience of care while controlling costs (PO #1).
Delivery and Technology
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Propose appropriate delivery methods to implement an intervention which will
improve the quality of the project (PO #3).
Evaluate the current and emerging technological options related to the
proposed delivery methods (PO #6).
Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
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Analyze stakeholders, regulatory implications, and potential support that could
impact the implementation of an intervention plan (PO #5).
Propose existing or new policy considerations that would support the
implementation of an intervention plan (PO #7).
Timeline
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Propose a timeline to implement an intervention plan with reference to specific
factors that influence the timing of implementation (PO #1).
Part 5: Evaluation of Plan
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Define the outcomes that are the goal of an intervention plan (PO #4).
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Create an evaluation plan to determine the impact of an intervention for a
health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education, or management
need (PO #3).
Part 6: Discussion
Advocacy
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Analyze the nurse’s role in leading change and driving improvements in the
quality and experience of care (PO #1).
Explain how the intervention plan affects nursing and interprofessional
collaboration, and how the health care field gains from the plan (PO #5).
Future Steps
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Explain how the current project could be improved upon to create a bigger
impact in the target population as well as to take advantage of emerging
technology and care models to improve outcomes and safety (PO #6).
Reflection on Leading Change and Improvement
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Reflect on how the project has impacted your ability to lead change in personal
practice and future leadership positions (PO #1).
Reflect on the ways in which the completed intervention, implementation, and
evaluation plans can be transferred into your personal practice to drive quality
improvement in other contexts (PO #3).
Address Generally Throughout
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Integrate resources from diverse sources that illustrate support for all aspects
of the project as appropriate throughout the final submission (PO #2).
Clearly, concisely, and cohesively articulate a health care need, population,
setting, stakeholders, supporting evidence, intervention, and evaluation (PO
#6).
Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of final product.
Additional Requirements
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Length of submission: 20–25 pages (including references).
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract
from the overall message.
Number of resources: 12–18 resources.
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APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current
APA style.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the
following course competencies and assessment criteria:
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Competency 1: Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care,
population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Competency 2: Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and
organizational decision making.
Competency 3: Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient,
population, and systems outcomes.
Competency 4: Design patient- and population-centered care to improve
health outcomes.
Competency 5: Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality
and to decrease cost of care.
Competency 6: Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information,
communication, and health care technologies to improve safety and quality and
to decrease cost of care.
Competency 7: Defend health policy that improves the experience of care,
population health, and professional work life while decreasing cost of care.
Note: You will also be assessed on two additional criteria unaligned to a course
competency:
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Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of the final
product.
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these additional
requirements.
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Final Project Submission Scoring Guide
Final Project Submission Scoring Guide
CRITERIA
NON-PERFORMANCE
BASIC
PROFICIENT
DISTINGUISHED
Lead organizational
change to improve
the experience of
care, population
health, and
professional work
life while decreasing
cost of care.
Does not lead
organizational
change to improve
the experience of
care, population
health, and
professional work life
while decreasing cost
of care.
Attempts to lead
organizational change,
but omits some
elements needed to
improve the
experience of care,
population health, and
professional work life
while decreasing cost
of care.
Leads organizational
change to improve
the experience of
care, population
health, and
professional work life
while decreasing
cost of care.
Leads organizational
change to improve the
experience of care,
population health, and
professional work life
while decreasing cost
of care; identifies
knowledge gaps,
unknowns, or missing
information.
Evaluate the best
available evidence
for use in clinical
and organizational
decision making.
Does not evaluate
the best available
evidence for use in
clinical and
organizational
decision making.
Attempts to evaluate
the best available
evidence for use in
clinical and
organizational decision
making, but omits
necessary connections
between evidence and
planned actions.
Evaluates the best
available evidence
for use in clinical and
organizational
decision making.
Evaluates the best
available evidence for
use in clinical and
organizational decision
making, and impartially
evaluates the strength
of the evidence.
Apply quality
improvement
methods to impact
patient, population,
and systems
outcomes.
Does not apply
quality improvement
methods to impact
patient, population,
and systems
outcomes.
Attempts to apply
quality improvement
methods, but methods
are not sufficiently
developed to create a
master’s-level
improvement to
patient, population,
and systems
outcomes.
Applies quality
improvement
methods to impact
patient, population,
and systems
outcomes.
Applies quality
improvement methods
to impact patient,
population, and
systems outcomes;
identifies areas of
uncertainty, knowledge
gaps, or additional
information that would
be needed in order to
gain a more complete
understanding.
Design patient- and
population-centered
care to improve
health outcomes.
Does not design
patient- and
population-centered
care to improve
health outcomes.
Attempts to design
patient- and
population-centered
care, but plan lacks
some elements
needed to improve or
measure health
outcomes.
Designs patient- and
population-centered
care to improve
health outcomes.
Designs patient- and
population-centered
care to improve health
outcomes, identifying
assumptions underlying
the intervention,
implementation, and
evaluation plans.
Integrate
interprofessional
care to improve
safety and quality
and to decrease cost
of care.
Does not integrate
interprofessional care
to improve safety and
quality, and to
decrease cost of
care.
Attempts to integrate
interprofessional care,
but plan lacks
sufficient strategies to
improve safety and
quality or to decrease
cost of care.
Integrates
interprofessional
care to improve
safety and quality,
and to decrease cost
of care.
Integrates
interprofessional care
to improve safety and
quality, and to
decrease cost of care,
impartially considering
conflicting evidence or
other perspectives.
Evaluate the ability
of existing and
emerging
information,
communication, and
health care
technologies to
Does not evaluate
the ability of existing
and emerging
information,
communication, and
health care
technologies to
Attempts to evaluate
the ability of existing
and emerging
technologies, but lacks
relevance and insight
needed to clarify the
ability of health care
Evaluates the ability
of existing and
emerging
information,
communication, and
health care
technologies to
Evaluates the ability of
existing and emerging
information,
communication, and
health care
technologies to
improve safety and
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Final Project Submission Scoring Guide
CRITERIA
NON-PERFORMANCE
BASIC
PROFICIENT
DISTINGUISHED
improve safety and
quality and to
decrease cost.
improve safety and
quality and to
decrease cost of
care.
technologies to
improve safety and
quality, and to
decrease cost of care.
improve safety and
quality and to
decrease cost of
care.
quality and to decrease
cost of care, identifying
the criteria used for
evaluation.
Defend health policy
that improves the
experience of care,
population health,
and professional
work life while
decreasing cost of
care.
Does not defend
health policy that
improves the
experience of care,
population health,
and professional
work life while
decreasing cost of
care.
Attempts to defend
health policy, but omits
relevant aspects of
policy that would affect
the experience of care,
population health,
professional work life,
or cost containment.
Defends health
policy that improves
the experience of
care, population
health, and
professional work life
while decreasing
cost of care.
Defends and proposes
relevant changes to
health policy to further
improve the experience
of care, population
health, and
professional work life
while decreasing cost
of care.
Integrate writing
feedback to improve
the clarity and
quality of final
product.
Does not integrate
writing feedback to
improve the clarity
and quality of final
product.
Attempts to integrate
writing feedback,
however fails to
substantively improve
the quality or clarity of
final product.
Integrate writing
feedback to improve
the clarity and quality
of final product.
Integrates writing
feedback to improve
the clarity and quality of
final product, and
leverages the revision
process to address
areas of missing
information.
Demonstrates
completion of hours
toward the
practicum
experience.
Does not
demonstrate
completion of hours
toward the practicum
experience.
Demonstrates
completion of hours
toward the practicum
experience, but
provides no details
about activities
completed during
those hours.
Demonstrates
completion of hours
toward the practicum
experience.
Demonstrates
completion of hours
toward the practicum
experience and
provides a clear and
concise description of
the focus of the clinical
hours and alignment to
the capstone project.
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