Writing Question

DN823 DNP Project Written Template

The proposal should be written in APA 7th edition format using a 12-point font, double spaced with a header. The length of the proposal will vary. The title page must be a standard University title page. This paper should be written in past tense.

The following components of the proposal are recommended:

1. Introduction
   • Project purpose/aims of the project
   • Background and significance of the problem to health care/nursing. Discuss from a general perspective and progress to the specific. Add your problem statement in this section
   • Relationship of project to advanced nursing practice and DNP Essentials
   • Practice setting and target population/community
   • Discussion of how identified practice setting will support project’s development;
   • project alignment with practice site mission and goals
   • Key stakeholders
   • Benefit of project to practice setting
   • Needs Assessment (data specific to the practice site that supports the need for the project; available resources)
2. Review of Literature
   • Relevant evidence including databases and key words
   • Levels of evidence
   • Literature Synthesis
3. Theoretical Foundation or Framework for the Project
   • Description and explanation of the theoretical or conceptual framework/model that supports the project
   • Schematic that depicts the relationship of the theory/framework to the project
   • Identify change theory applicable to project
4. Project Description
   • Project summary and outcomes
   • Project timeline
   • Project budget: Justification and Cost/benefit analysis
5. Project Implementation
   • Project Implementation
   • IRB approval
   • Instruments for data collection
   • Data analysis
6. Project Evaluation
   • Formative Evaluation (ongoing during project implementation)
   • Summative Evaluation (end of project)
   • Evaluation instrument
   • Interpretation of data and the relationship of data to the problem
   • statement
   • Implications of project findings; how will the project data change practice?
   • Project sustainability
7. Dissemination of Information
   • Executive Summary: Brief and comprehensive synopsis of the project
   • Written dissemination (final project paper)
   • Oral presentation to key stakeholders (telling the story)
   • Future scholarship (article for publication and abstract submission to a conference or organization)
     • You need to use this for data analysis, this involves statistics.
     • Compare pre- and post-training survey scores:
     • Average and standard deviation (SD)
     • Paired t-test is used to compare the means of the two samples of related data.