Creating an Evidence-Based Educational Offering on Pediatric Obesity: A DNP Doctoral Project Prospec

Purpose of the DNP Doctoral Project Prospectus

Topic: Creating an evidence-based educational offering to teach the pediatric clinic staff about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity in children. The first stage in this course is completion of the prospectus. For now, only focus on the Prospectus for the above capstone project topic.

-    Draft prospectus that is nearly complete, which you will finalize with your Supervisory Committee and submit for approval in MyDR. You will submit working drafts in this class (Academic Progress Submissions) and/or in the preliminary prospectus development section of MyDR. 
-    Confer with your chair on where they would like you to submit drafts of your prospectus (in MyDR or this course). Remember that the prospectus serves as a brief plan for your capstone/project.
-    Please see order # 1905372 and order # 1913067 for related and similar topics but not the same topic. 
Capstone Project New Topic Question from class professor - Creating an evidence-based educational offering to teach the pediatric clinic staff about diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of obesity in children. 

References – All references should not be more than 5 years old and consider similarity index/ plagiarizing in mind when writing the essay. and focuses on addressing improvement of health care delivery. Students are given an opportunity to demonstrate competence by constructing, designing, and completing an evidence-based scholarly project related to the advancement of nursing practice. As such, this project must reflect critical-thinking skills; application of principles of inquiry; synthesis of knowledge and skills learned and developed during the DNP program; recommendations for future initiatives; and outcomes for benefitting individual patients, groups of patients, communities, or systems.

DNP doctoral projects are scholarly contributions that must address the needs of the practice setting and the nursing profession. Relying on a model of evidence-based decision-making, the primary purpose of the doctoral project is to create the overall design and provide the framework for the use of existing evidence to address local problems in nursing practice. The doctoral project may be a response to a needs assessment, an organizational goal, a clarification of approaches to injuries/illness, an identified need in the health care system that has not been previously addressed locally, or it may be in response to a need identified by a professional health or nursing related organization. Ethical, legal, political, and economic factors may be integrated as appropriate.

Examples of acceptable types of doctoral projects include, but are not limited to, the following:
•    Evaluation of existing quality improvement projects
•    Staff education projects
•    Clinical practice guidelines development

Components of the DNP Doctoral Project Prospectus

Manuals are available for the three project types listed above. Each manual contains the required steps for that project type, as well as the forms/procedures that must be used if the student wants to take advantage of Institutional Review Board (IRB) preapproval. Additional details about doctoral project requirements are presented in the DNP Project Process Guide and the DNP Project Checklist. Please note that if a student wants to use an alternative approach to the DNP project process or add more data points (such as observations or interviews), the manual’s data/evidence collection procedures/agreements and the IRB preapproved manuals cannot be used. The student will need to follow the standard ethics approval request process.

The DNP Doctoral Project Prospectus is used in two ways:
•    To identify a preliminary topic for your DNP Doctoral Project. This topic should be the product of initial investigation on your part but will be subject to change and refinement as you develop your proposal.
•    To help identify the faculty members who will guide the development of your DNP Doctoral Project Proposal.
 

Completing the Prospectus
The Doctoral Project Prospectus consists of 10 parts: title, problem statement, practice- focused question(s), social change, context for the doctoral project, sources of evidence, approach or procedural steps, ethical, alignment, and references. The annotated outline provided on pages 3–5 can be used to create your prospectus document.

Your primary goal for the prospectus is to narrow your topic such that you have provided a general sense of the direction of your doctoral project. At the prospectus stage, you do not need to know everything about the doctoral project, especially the details of the approach and procedural steps you will use. Those decisions are made during proposal development.

This prospectus is intended to be succinct. It is used to determine the feasibility and appropriateness of the doctoral project prior to development of the full DNP Doctoral Project Proposal. Your prospectus should be three to five pages in length, follow Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (sixth edition) guidelines, and be saved in either .doc,
.docx, or .rtf file formats.

Submitting the Prospectus
The prospectus will be completed in NURS 8700 under the direction of your committee chair. After your NURS 8700 faculty member and your assigned committee member confirm your prospectus is ready for formal rubric review, you will upload your prospectus to the Committee Prospectus Rubric Analysis in Taskstream for formal review by your chair and committee member using the DNP Prospectus Rubric (located at the end of this guide).

Once the prospectus has been approved by the committee chair and member in the Committee Prospectus Rubric Analysis, it will be reviewed by the DNP program director or designee. Upon approval of your prospectus by the DNP program director or designee, you should continue to work with your DNP committee to develop  the DNP Doctoral Project Proposal.

As you are working on your DNP Doctoral Project Prospectus, you should also begin familiarizing yourself with the My Doctoral Research (MyDR) system resources and other useful resources on the Center for Research Quality website. The MyDR system was designed to assist you and your supervisory committee in navigating your doctoral capstone journey, from the very beginning through the final approval. The various landing pages in MyDR will track your progress and will serve as a central location for resources to support that progress. The Taskstream element of the MyDR system is used to establish a process flow tool in which you exchange and store DNP committee evaluations of and feedback on your work as you progress along that journey.