NR702 DNP Project & Practicum I
Week 2 Discussion
Scientific Underpinnings of the DNP Project
The discussion this week is related to the scientific underpinnings of your project. Within your Week 2 Guided Study Worksheet (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. you will write the Synthesis of Literature, Practice Recommendations, and Evidence-Based Practice: Verification of Chosen Option sections of your proposal. Please use the NR702 Week 2 Guided Study Worksheet template to complete this discussion. Students can find the Weekly Guided Study Worksheets under Modules, course resources and course related documents. The guided study worksheet is also attached to this discussion. Follow the guided Study worksheets to ensure that you include all of the detailed information for each section. Information from each guided study worksheet is included in the Week 4 assignment rubric and the week 6 assignment rubric.
Prior to posting your Weekly Worksheets to the Collaborative Discussion forum, submit the document to the Drop-Off Essay Review through Tutor.com. Make any needed changes to your paper based on the feedback you receive from the tutoring service. Remember, it can take up to 24 hours to receive feedback from Tutor.com, so be sure to submit your draft to Tutor.com early enough so that you will be able to incorporate feedback, make revisions, and post your assignment to the Collaborative Discussions on time.
Synthesis of the Literature (5-10 pages)
This section must be 5-10 pages long. Synthesize at least 10 (no more than 5 years old) primary research studies and/or systematic reviews; do not include summary articles. This section is all about the scientific evidence rather than someone else’s opinion of the evidence. Do not use secondary sources; you need to get the article, read it, and make your own decision about quality and applicability to your question even if you did find out about the study in a review of the literature. The studies you cite in this section must relate directly to your PICOT question and support your proposed evidence-based intervention. This is a synthesis where you address the similarities, differences, and controversies in the body of evidence.
Consider organizing this section through use of themes inherent in the literature. For example, if you are focusing on falls prevention, organize this section as demonstrated below through use of level II headings.
Falls Prevention: Hourly Rounding Process
Falls Prevention: Team Huddles
Falls Prevention: Additional Strategies
Practice Recommendations (1-2 pages)
This section should be approximately 1-2 pages long. As you consider the evidence you provided above, what is the answer to your question? This section is for you to summarize the strength of the body of evidence (quality, quantity, and consistency), make a summary statement, and based on your conclusions drawn from the review, give a recommendation for practice change based on scientific evidence. This would logically be the intervention of your PICOT question. Perhaps you found substantiation for usual practice, and you recommend reinforcement and education regarding this best practice.
Evidence Based Practice: Verification of Chosen Option (1 short paragraph)
This section includes a brief statement (two-three sentences) about the evidence-based practice/s (EBP) [specific practice intervention, program intervention or evaluation, presentation and toolkit, or policy change] QI option you have chosen and which you will be implementing based on the review of the literature.
