NURS 561 Week 4 Community Strategic Plan: Part B, Strategic Plan

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Recommendations and Conclusions

Your name here

West Coast University

NURS 691B: Culminating Experience II

Dr. Tracy Macdonald

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Recommendations and Conclusions

Introduce your paper, and clarify the issue of the study. If you want, review your PICOT topic. This final section of your paper will summarize the project, its main points and findings, the significance of the project to the advanced practice nursing profession, and finally, the recommendations for future research.

Proposed Recommendations

For this section of the paper, you are going to want to discuss the recommendations that you are proposing for your change project. What are the implications of these recommendations for clinical practice.

Limitations of Study

For this section, go back into your literature review and see what other studies noted as limitations. Was it that there was not much data pertaining to the topic, was the participant pool biased. For the time frame, was it too short to collect data, or was the data collection too long.

Consider your goals and objectives for this study, and what concerns you may have had.

Summary of Research

Give a brief overview of the study, and what research supports the need for this change project. Provide suggestions and discussions that can direct your study for further research. Discuss if there is a need for a change to public policy, or is this more at the local/clinical level

Lastly, take into consideration any changes in theoretical constructs. Tie the theoretical or conceptual framework back to the study, and the results.

Conclusion

This is your final conclusion of your paper. This is your overall wrap-up of your change project. This should be a robust conclusion. Re-introduce your topic, and why there is a need for a change to happen. Give a brief review of the results – you might note, George et al, (2020) noted that …….. did xyz, which supports this change project. Again, note your suggestions for further follow-up or further research on this specific topic, and how this change will benefit the affected population.

References

Entries are organized alphabetically and formatted with a hanging indention. Include only the sources you cited in the text of your paper. This is just an idea of how to properly cite references. If you do not have an in-text citation for a reference, it does not belong in your paper.

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

Harris, J. L., Roussel, L., Dearman, C., & Thomas, P. L. (2015). Project planning and management for nurses and interprofessional teams (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.

Tappen, R. M. (2015). Advanced Nursing Research (2nd ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.