Identification Of Issue Significant To Nursing Practice II

Welcome to Topic 2: Identification of Issue Significant to Nursing Practice II

Welcome to Topic 2: Identification of Issue Significant to Nursing Practice II.  Thanks for the introductions to your preceptors and the discussion of the proposed topics in your preconference.  

           Please be aware of the weekly feedback and the Rubric for each assignment, it is expected that you utilize the comments from the feedback in the upcoming assignments. In this week’s topic, students will continue to explore the context of their chosen clinical issue, problem or organizational issue and its implications to nursing practice.  It must be within the scope of nursing practice. 

1.     Capstone Topic Summary.   The earlier you start working on your PICOT statement the better it will be in your final paper, which must be written out in the following format;

    P- Population/ focus, 

    I – intervention what do you plan to do to correct what is being done, or isn’t being done

         for the issue and needs attention.  

    C – current practice or practice that is not being followed

    O- outcome decrease/increase by 10% minimum and 

    T- once intervention has been completed, it will take time to integrated the new policy/  process or practice strategy into practice and then the data can be collected for 6 months to  verify the effectiveness of the project) by writing a 150-250 +-word summary explaining which category your topic and intervention. 

This will serve as the introduction for your final paper. You are required to cite to a minimum of eight peer-reviewed sources to complete this assignment and these references will be utilized throughout your future assignments. Sources must be published within the last 5 years, appropriate for the assignment criteria, and relevant to nursing practice. Plan your time accordingly to complete this assignment.

2.     Capstone Project Topic Selection and Approval . If we have settled on a topic during the preconference, then you don’t need to list the other topics, Just the focus topic and the objectives you have settled on and hope to accomplish. 

Please review and coordinate with preceptor the PIOCT statement for your selected topic and introduce the issue or problem with a minimum of  8 peer reviewed articles  to support your approach to the issue/s or problem which will be utilized throughout your next assignments and the final paper in Week 8.

3.     Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal . This a paragraph of the continuation of your journal on the actions taken to solve the selected project.\