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NHS8050 Preparing for the Professional Doctorate in Nursing and Health Sciences

Unit 3 Assignment      

 Project Topic Selection

Note: Please complete the discussion in this unit before completing this assignment.

The purpose of the project in this course is to evaluate a possible professional doctoral project topic that could be used to complete your doctoral studies. This project will help you assess the worthiness of a chosen topic; assist with developing literature search strategies to investigate the topic; provide practice in evaluating, analyzing, synthesizing, and applying credible literature to your topic idea; and build your capacity to think critically and develop and write a scholarly critical review of the literature.

This assignment focuses on picking the topic for your course project. You will pick a topic that explores a gap in practice, process, or policy, or an opportunity for improvement. The topic you select should be related to a current process or practice issue in your field of study. To help address that gap or opportunity, in the later activities in this course, you will use a critical review of the literature.

To choose your topic, consider your own doctoral program. Discuss possible process issues, practice gaps, or opportunities for improvement that your organization (or possible sponsoring organization) may have that are worthy of a doctoral project.

You may review the SNHS Doctoral Project Prospectus (DPP) in preparation for the assignment. To download the prospectus, visit the Doctoral Capstone page (link given in the resources) and scroll down and click Doctoral Project Prospectus (DPP) under Capstone General Resources.

For this assignment:

Identify a researchable clinical (DNP), process, or policy (DHA and DrPH) project topic that you will work on throughout this course. The topic you select must meet the approval of your instructor.

Describe the topic and justify why this topic is important to your field of study.

Explain how this topic is appropriate for a professional doctoral project as opposed to a PhD research project.

Examine how a project related to the selected topic can be completed within the constraints of the professional doctoral program.

Identify at least one organization within your community or professional realm that would benefit from the type of scholarly work an investigation of this topic would provide.

Here are some examples of possible topics:

In the DNP program, a critical review of the literature might ask the question: What evidence supports the use of a stewardship model to reduce overprescribing of antibiotics?

In the DrPH program, a critical review of the literature might ask: What evidence is available related to decreasing teen pregnancies?

In the DHA program, a critical review of the literature might ask: What evidence is available related to the integration of meaningful use in electronic health records for rural hospitals?

 

 

NHS8050 Preparing for the Professional Doctorate in Nursing and Health Sciences

Unit 5 Assignment      

Developing an Evidence Table

 Part 1

For this part of the assignment, use the "Evidence Table" from the appendix of the SNHS Doctoral Project Prospectus (DPP) to list articles that will help inform the topic you selected for your course project in the Unit 3 assignment.

Search the Capella library databases for a minimum of five peer-reviewed articles that you will use for your project topic. Complete the evidence table fully for these articles, providing all the required information.

Part 2

Review Chapters 7 and 8 of your How to Do a Systematic Literature Review in Nursing e-book about providing a critical review of the literature.

For the second part of the assignment, provide a critical review of at least three of the articles you included in the evidence table. In your critical review:

Provide a one-sentence overview of the main topic of the article.

Discuss if the article reports on a comprehensive literature review that was completed to inform the topic.

Provide the research questions and discuss the research methodology used.

Analyze the theoretical basis and/or conceptual framework used in the study.

Report on the study findings and propose a possible application this article could have to your own project topic.

Other Requirements

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.

APA format: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting.

Resources

Developing an Evidence Table Scoring Guide.

APA Style and Format.

Doctoral Capstone.

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[u05d1] Unit 5 Discussion 1

Levels of Evidence

Think about your own project topic for this course. In your initial post, discuss the three different levels of evidence you could apply to your own paper in this course.

What are the levels of evidence used in the peer-reviewed articles that you found?

Are there white papers or opinion papers on your topic?

Is there an industry expert you could consult?

What did you find that is not evidence based, but could be appropriate?

Provide your findings for all three levels of evidence.

Post according to the Faculty Expectations Response Guidelines. Be sure to include at least one APA-formatted citation (in-text plus full reference). The citation should be from materials you have read during this unit. It may be from course textbooks, assigned readings, or an outside source.

 

NHS8050 Preparing for the Professional Doctorate in Nursing and Health Sciences

Unit 6 Assignment      

Draft of Final Paper

Note: Please complete the discussion in this unit before completing this assignment.

For this assignment, complete a draft of the Introduction, Methods, and Critical Review sections for the Critical Review of the Literature paper. Provide headings as placeholders for the sections of the paper you will not complete for this assignment (Recommendations and Conclusions). You will complete a final draft of the entire paper in Unit 9.

In addition, continue to add new sources to the evidence table you developed for the Unit 5 assignment. You will include this table as an appendix to your final paper. The final evidence table should include a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed resources.

Assignment Structure

Your assignment should include the following sections:

Title page.

Abstract.

Introduction (3–5 paragraphs).

Describe the topic you investigated.

Provide a brief background of this topic.

Explain why this topic is suitable for a professional doctoral project as opposed to a PhD research project.

Discuss a potential sponsoring organization that would be interested in the investigation of this topic.

Methods. (Methodology and search strategy used for literature search).

Databases searched.

Key search terms used.

Number of articles accessed and number of articles used for the paper.

Critical review.

Compare and contrast peer-reviewed articles and sources in your evidence table.

Provide analysis and synthesis of the articles.

Recommendations. [Only heading in this assignment.]

Content to be added in the final assignment.

Conclusions. [Only heading in this assignment.]

Content to be added in the final assignment.

 

NHS8050 Preparing for the Professional Doctorate in Nursing and Health Sciences

Unit 9 Assignment      

Critical Review of the Literature – Final Paper

For this assignment, submit your final paper, a critical review of the literature.

Use the instructor and peer feedback you received on the draft paper you submitted in Unit 6 to help improve your work for this final submission.

For this final paper, complete the remaining sections (Recommendations, Conclusions, and References) you did not complete for your draft. This paper synthesizes your work on all of your assignments in Units 3, 5, and 6 into one final paper. Include your evidence table with a minimum of 10 peer-reviewed resources as an appendix to the paper.

Assignment Structure

Your final paper must include the following sections:

Title page.

Abstract.

Introduction. (3–5 paragraphs.)

Describe the topic you investigated.

Provide a brief background of this topic.

Explain why this topic is suitable for a professional doctoral project as opposed to a PhD research project.

Discuss a potential sponsoring organization that would be interested in the investigation of this topic.

Methods. (Methodology and search strategy used for literature search.)

Databases searched.

Key search terms used.

Number of articles accessed and number of articles used for the paper.

Critical Review.

Compare and contrast peer-reviewed articles and sources in your evidence table.

Provide analysis and synthesis of the articles.

Recommendations.

A clear statement of possible solutions found in the literature related to the topic.

Specific planned actions of how this information will inform your future work on this topic.

An evaluation of the appropriateness of this topic with a possible sponsoring organization.

A description of possible next steps for use of this topic.

Conclusions.

Summarize and tie together all the information. (3–5 paragraphs.)

References.

Appendix: Evidence Table.