Hypertension

DNP Project I: Section 1 Outline

Topic

Description

Content Bullet Points

Supportive Citations

Title

Title indicates that the manuscript concerns an initiative to improve healthcare (broadly defined to include the quality, safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness, cost, efficiency, and equity of healthcare)

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Problem Identification

· What is the problem at the site you will address? (Use SQUIRE 2.0 definition to formulate this: “a meaningful disruption, failure, inadequacy, distress, confusion or other dysfunction in a healthcare service delivery system that adversely affects patients, staff, or the system as a whole, or that prevents care from reaching its full potential.”

· What makes the problem significant? Is there a national guideline or local standard that guides this practice? Identify the gap between current practice at the project site and the guidelines.

· Background of the local problem (when did the problem start? Did a recent regulation make this more relevant?) Provide background information that may be relevant to justify the project.

· Write your “problem statement” including a brief statement of the problem and the proposed resolution. (use your SWAT analysis as a reference point)

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Project Question

· PICO Question (Can you answer your PICO question through completing your project? If you can, then you are on the right track!)

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Reference List

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