Project Paper

Submit your 20-25 page final capstone project that synthesizes the work you completed in the previous four
assessments
You will also be required to submit your completed practicum hours using CORE ELMS. You must submit a
minimum of 20 hours with each assessment deliverable to receive a grade for the entire assessment.
Introduction
Note: Each assessment in this course builds on the work you completed in the previous assessment. Therefore, you
must complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.
Congratulations! The finish line is in sight for both the capstone project you have been working on all quarter and
your Master’s of Science in Nursing program. Take a moment to appreciate all you have accomplished and give
yourself a pat on the back; you have earned it!Need Statement
Analyze a health promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need (PO #1).
Population and Setting
Describe a target population and setting in which an identified need will be addressed (PO #4).
Intervention Overview
Explain an overview of one or more interventions that would help address an identified need within a target
population and setting (PO #3).
Comparison of Approaches
Analyze potential interprofessional alternatives to an initial intervention with regard to their possibilities to
meet the needs of the project, population, and setting. (PO #5).
Initial Outcome Draft
Define an outcome that identifies the purpose and intended accomplishments of an intervention for a health
promotion, quality improvement, prevention, education or management need (PO #4).
Time Estimate
Propose a rough time frame for the development and implementation of an intervention to address and
identified need (PO #1).
Part 2: Literature Review
Analyze current evidence to validate an identified need and its appropriateness within the target population
and setting (PO #2).
Evaluate and synthesize resources from diverse sources illustrating existing health policy that could impact the
approach taken to address an identified need (PO #7).
PART 3: INTERVENTION PLAN
Intervention Plan Components
Define the major components of an intervention plan for a health promotion, quality improvement,
prevention, education, or management need (PO #4).
Explain the impact of cultural needs and characteristics of a target population and setting on the
development of intervention plan components (PO #4).
Theoretical Foundations
Evaluate theoretical nursing models, strategies from other disciplines, and health care technologies relevant
to an intervention plan (PO #6).
Justify the major components of an intervention by referencing relevant and contemporary evidence from the
literature and best practices (PO #2).
Stakeholders, Policy, and Regulations
Analyze the impact of stakeholder needs, health care policy, regulations, and governing bodies relevant to
health care practice and specific components of an intervention plan (PO #7).

Your final submission for your capstone project will bring together all of the sections you have worked on throughout
this course, as well as the relevant revisions you have made to those sections based on feedback from your
instructor, as well as feedback you have received or observations you may have made during your practicum
experience. True professionals can learn to strive for continuous improvement in their work and incorporate
feedback from colleagues and leaders to help scaffold improvement efforts. As a master’s-level nurse you will be
expected to create and implement plans and evaluate their outcomes. Being able to envision a pathway for a project
to move from the idea phase all the way through the evaluation phase is a critical skill. By successfully synthesizing
the various sections of this project together into one final artifact, you will have demonstrated your competence in
this essential skill.
Preparations
Read Guiding Questions: Final Project Submission [DOC]. This document is designed to give you questions to
consider and additional guidance to help you successfully complete this assessment.
As you prepare to complete this assessment, you may want to think about other related issues to deepen your
understanding or broaden your viewpoint. You are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss
them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional
community. Note that these questions are for your own development and exploration and do not need to be
completed or submitted as part of your assessment.
What is the most useful skill or concept you learned while pursuing your MSN degree?
How will you leverage your degree to help you reach your ideal practice career path?
How will you be able to apply the work you have done on your capstone project to improve your
personal practice?
Instructions
Note: The assessments in this course are sequenced in such a way as to help you build specific skills that you will use
throughout your program. Complete the assessments in the order in which they are presented.
For your final capstone project submission you will synthesize the work you completed in the previous four
assessments. Please make sure that you have made relevant revisions as suggested by your instructor, as well as
relevant additions that you uncovered during your practicum experience. The only brand-new content that you will
need to create for this assessment is an Abstract and an Introduction.
This final submission will be graded using the seven program outcomes (POs) for the Master’s of Science in Nursing
program. As a reminder they are:
1. Lead organizational change to improve the experience of care, population health, and professional work life
while decreasing cost of care.
2. Evaluate the best available evidence for use in clinical and organizational decision making.
3. Apply quality improvement methods to impact patient, population, and systems outcomes.
4. Design patient- and population-centered care to improve health outcomes.
5. Integrate interprofessional care to improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.
6. Evaluate the ability of existing and emerging information, communication, and health care technologies to
improve safety and quality and to decrease cost of care.
7. Defend health policy that improves the experience of care, population health, and professional work life while
decreasing cost of care.
In addition, you will be assessed on how well you incorporated the feedback you received from your instructor on
your previous work in this course via the following criterion:
Integrate writing feedback to improve the clarity and quality of final product.
You will also be assessed on the completion of hours toward your practicum experience.
Demonstrate completion of hours toward the practicum experience.
See the scoring guide for specific grading criteria related to these requirements.
Please carefully review the outline below to see which parts of the final submission will align to which program
outcomes. (Note: The bullet points in the outline correspond to the grading criteria from your previous assessments.
It may be worth putting in some extra revisions on the material related to criteria on which you did not previously
score as well as you would have liked. You may also wish to read the Guiding Questions: Final Project Submission
document to better understand how each aspect of your submission will be assessed.) It is important to remember
that if you do a quality job addressing the points below, you will meet all of the program outcomes. The alignment is
provided for transparency, but do not become preoccupied with how each point will feed into the scoring guide.
Abstract
Summarize the purpose, approach, and any relevant findings of the final capstone project submission (PO #1).
Introduction
Summarize your need, target population, and setting (PO #1).
Provide a high-level overview of your intervention plan (PO #4).
Justify the importance of your need and intervention plan (PO #1).
Provide a high-level overview of your implementation plan (PO #4).
Provide a high-level over view of your evaluation plan (PO #4).
Reminder: these instructions are an outline. Your heading for this this section should be Problem Statement and not
Part 1: Problem Statement.