PMID- 24267931
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150202
LR  - 20131125
IS  - 1532-8481 (Electronic)
IS  - 8755-7223 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 6
DP  - 2013 Nov-Dec
TI  - The evolution of a doctor of nursing practice capstone process: programmatic 
      revisions to improve the quality of student projects.
PG  - 370-80
LID - S8755-7223(12)00123-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.05.018 [doi]
AB  - The past several years have seen explosive growth in the number of doctor of 
      nursing practice (DNP) degree programs offered by colleges of nursing in the 
      United States. Through a process of trial and error since 2005, the faculty at 
      the University of Colorado, College of Nursing, have revised the course structure 
      and procedures related to the DNP capstone project to improve the quality and 
      usefulness of these student projects. Efforts have focused on educating and 
      involving all nursing faculty in the DNP capstone process, distinguishing between 
      competencies for our PhD and DNP projects, clearly aligning the DNP capstone 
      project with quality improvement methods rather than with research, working with 
      our campus institutional review board to clarify regulatory review requirements 
      for quality improvement studies, developing a review committee to oversee DNP 
      students' projects, and structuring our sequential course requirements to 
      encourage students' professional presentations and publications. Our current 
      capstone process reflects 7 years of iterative work, which we summarize in this 
      article in hopes that it will help institutions currently in the process of 
      developing a DNP program.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Nelson, Joan M
AU  - Nelson JM
AD  - Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Anshutz Medical Campus, College of 
      Nursing, Aurora, CO. Electronic address: Joan.nelson@ucdenver.edu.
FAU - Cook, Paul F
AU  - Cook PF
FAU - Raterink, Ginger
AU  - Raterink G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20131007
PL  - United States
TA  - J Prof Nurs
JT  - Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of 
      Colleges of Nursing
JID - 8511298
SB  - IM
MH  - Education, Nursing, Graduate/*organization & administration/standards
MH  - *Students, Nursing
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Capstone
OT  - DNP
OT  - Doctoral education in nursing
OT  - Quality improvement projects
EDAT- 2013/11/26 06:00
MHDA- 2015/02/03 06:00
CRDT- 2013/11/26 06:00
PHST- 2011/10/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/11/26 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/11/26 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/02/03 06:00 [medline]
AID - S8755-7223(12)00123-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.05.018 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Prof Nurs. 2013 Nov-Dec;29(6):370-80. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2012.05.018. Epub 
      2013 Oct 7.