NURS 731 Advanced Nursing Practice Leadership Role Integration-Capstone

This capstone course focuses on practice management issues that advanced practice nurses (ANP) encounter in their role transition from direct care providers to doctoral prepared advanced practice nurse leaders. Key points include benchmarking and outcome measures in clinical practice, challenges and opportunities of the DNP APN role, areas of litigation, advanced certification options, leadership in health care policy, negotiations of contracts, and opportunities for promotion and advocacy of the DNP role. In addition, working with their faculty advisor, students will complete the design of a systems level evidence-based project (DNP Project) based on a clinical issue or problem significant to advanced family nursing practice. This capstone project (DNP Project) will be implemented by the student during NURS 732 Integration of Evidence-Based Practice across Healthcare Settings.