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NURS 794 - Graduate Nursing Scholarship–Capstone Project

(1 to 4 units)
Capstone project in which graduate nursing students translate and integrate research into evidence-based practice to improve the health outcomes of identified individuals, communities, or populations.

Maximum units a student may earn: 4

Corequisite(s): NURS 735 ; NURS 736 ; NURS 737 .

Grading Basis: Graded
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. examine current health care systems, financing structures, and health care policy utilizing available technology to identify a practice issue that is in need of change.
2. critique, synthesize, and apply scientific knowledge within a theoretical framework to develop and execute a quality evidence-based change project.
3. create community partnerships/collaboration to provide formal presentation and dissemination with an interdisciplinary team of community partners, faculty, and students.
4. evaluate cultural and ethical implications related to the identified practice issue and supported practice change with particular emphasis on social justice considerations.
5. analyze the practice issue and change project for impact on concerns of access and health disparities to the different cultural group norms.
6. integrate the role and responsibilities of advance practice nurses guided by national scope and standards to lead the delivery and evaluation of a high quality evidence based change project.
7. demonstrate integration of scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial fields, genetics, public health, quality improvement and organizational sciences within a theoretical framework in a project that improves the state of nursing care and evidence-based practice.


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