The Dnp Project Workbook: A Step-By-Step Process for Success

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Authored by nurse educators with an in-depth understanding of the challenges of the DNP Project, this text provides sequential, guided activities designed to jump-start and project students forward through the DNP Project process. By incorporating active learning activities into project development, the workbook delivers a proven method for developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining the DNP Project. It fosters critical thinking and innovation, while also providing a means for faculty to measure and document the progress of project milestones.

The DNP Project Workbook offers more than 100 activities that address all facets of the DNP Project, including the identification, investigation, and framing of problems; project team assembly; research; methodology; implementation; and dissemination. This resource also includes examples of a variety of DNP Projects to demonstrate the successful integration of all elements. The activities may be completed within the workbook or in online, editable PDFs for easy submission to faculty. Supplemental resources include PowerPoint slides, a DNP Essentials mapping document, and blank activities and templates.

Key Features:
• Provides sequential, guided activities designed to jump-start and project students forward through the DNP Project process
• Offers more than 100 active learning activities that address all facets of the DNP Project
• Delivers a proven method for developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining DNP Projects
• Facilitates measurement and documentation of project milestones
• Features examples of a variety of DNP Projects
• Includes a robust resources package, including PowerPoint slides, a DNP Essentials mapping document, and editable activity forms
• Purchase includes digital access for use on most mobile devices or computers


Author: Molly Bradshaw, Tracy R. Vitale
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 03/27/2020
Pages: 346
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780826174321

About the Author
Bradshaw, Molly: -

Molly J. Bradshaw, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, WHNP-BC, is an associate professor, DNP program coordinator, and faculty innovator at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky. She completed her undergraduate nursing degrees at Eastern Kentucky University (1998, 2001); got her master's degree at the University of Kentucky (2005); and earned her doctor of nursing practice degree at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2016). She is nationally board certified as both a family and a women's health nurse practitioner. She maintains an active clinical practice at First Choice Immediate Care, in Columbia, Kentucky. Her 21-year career in nursing includes diverse positions, including staff nurse (labor and delivery and the operating room), school nurse, nurse manager, nurse practitioner, and active service in the United States Navy Nurse Corps. Her academic scholarship is rooted in teaching innovation, use of infographics/social media, and the DNP Project. Her published works focus on clinical subjects such as prescribing habits of nurse practitioners and chronic disease management, including hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, obesity, and multiple sclerosis. She currently serves as secretary of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Steering Committee for the Practice Leadership Network and as secretary for Pricilla's Cancer Foundation, operated by Dunnville First Baptist Church, Dunnville, Kentucky.

Vitale, Tracy: -

Tracy R. Vitale, DNP, RNC-OB, C-EFM, NE-BC, has been a nurse for more than 20 years and is currently an assistant professor and specialty director of DNP Projects/DNP Project courses at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Nursing, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from The College of New Jersey (2000), her master's in nursing from the University of Phoenix (2006), and a doctor of nursing practice degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (2016). Prior to transitioning to academia in 2017, her nursing career included leadership positions in maternal-fetal medicine research, outpatient private maternal-fetal medicine and high-risk obstetrics practice, and labor and delivery/perinatal evaluation and treatment departments. Dr. Vitale sits on the board of directors for the Organization of Nurse Leaders of New Jersey and is actively involved with the mentorship committee for which she has spoken on a local, state, and national level about the mentorship of nurse leaders. She also serves on the advisory council for the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing, which focuses on nursing workforce issues. Dr. Vitale also serves as a manuscript reviewer for select journals.