This is a Doctoral Quality improvement Project/DNP (Doctor of Nursing practice)

Components

Responses

NURS 8123 LEADERSHIP

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project Committee:

1. Principal Investigator (student name):

2. Practice Partner Name and Degree:

3. Project Site (review approved states for the program Program Map:

Needs Assessment

(REVIEW VIDEOS ON THIS TOPIC): Discuss how you obtained information, who you interviewed, what resources, and data supported the need. Provide facts or data based on needs assessment

Identified Problem and

Problem Statement/Must include aim of project:

Project Category

Which of these categories best describes your project?

☐ EBP Projects: ** EBP projects involve using research and evidence to guide practice changes. Practices are outdated or nonexistent. Example: Medication Reconciliation or Fall Prevention protocols. Advancing the Nursing Profession: Creating professional development assessment tools.

☐ Program Development: Focuses on creating structured initiatives to support and implement EBP at a larger scale. These projects often involve mentorship, training, and use resource allocation to implement EBP into a larger organization (AI, 2025). Example: Malignant hyperthermia preparedness program, creating apps, curriculum development, community health initiatives

☐ Needs Assessment/QI: The goal is to evaluate the current or baseline level of performance at the project site and implement and evaluate quality improvement initiatives. Need is based on evidence such as data. Examples include reducing medical errors, hospital-acquired infections, patient flow, and equity in care.

☐ Policy Project: ** Checking this box states that your project site (facility) uses formal policies for practice or process. You are stating that 1. Creating an actual formal policy or editing an existing policy based on evidence-based practice, or current standards 2. Obtaining approval from the administration for the new change, 3. Implementing part of or the whole policy, 4. Measuring outcome(s). You are using the QI method to develop and implement your project. If you are not doing this, then review other options.

** Please note: Due to the complexity of IRB, you will not have direct contact with patients or students.

Setting: Specifically, where is the Project Site? Hospital? Clinic?

Government?

What is the gap between practice as it is and EBP?

How does the project impact the problem?

EBP Intervention; Based on gold standards, supported by research. Intervention must be supported by literature review. Include minimum of 5 references for this section.

Simple Title of Project (Title should be same on feasibility document, DNP Project paper, site permission letter, and IRB)

PICO Statement

Instrument (s) to measure outcomes

Site Permission and Practice Partner Agreement

Submitted to Workroom: ⃝ Not submitted (please contact the project chair and the Director) : ⃝

Project Proposal Decision:

Draft Accepted ⃝ Revisement Necessary: ⃝ Comment for Revisement:

Final Version Graded Assignment: Approved ⃝ Revisement

Necessary: ⃝

Comment for Revisement: