Initial Teleconference
On June 4, 2024, from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Dr. Alexandra Murr (Aspen Professor), Elizabeth Acree (student), and Jennifer Meek(preceptor) met for the initial teleconference to begin Practicum 550 and the capstone project. During this N550 Module 1 Assignment 2 Initial Teleconference, the capstone project process was examined. We examined how a potential project should have a problem that necessities illustrated, how the project should have measurable objectives and metrics, how the project and the objectives should be investigated by the multidisciplinary team, the student should do a complete literature search, audit, and an annotated biography, and an evaluation of the consequences of the survey should be completed.
Dr. Murr shared that having a respectable timeline in place is essential to stay on task to have the option to complete all means of the project within the eight-week timeframe. In this summary of our teleconference, we will investigate some of the important aspects of the practicum experience and project completion.
Project Ideas
Finding a project idea that is important to the student is vital. This allows the student to work and learn about the topic during the capstone project. There are many areas of interest and one item Dr. Murr explained was that a couple of topics or ideas have been all around informed. One example incorporates nursing wear out. She explained that while picking an idea, it must be a topic or problem that needs assistance inside the system. She shared that one stage to landing on a project topic is the have the multidisciplinary team frame the project idea and weigh in.
Key Considerations for Developing a Nursing Capstone Project
For this capstone project, nursing specialists are the main evaluators, but it is important to have an educated authority from another discipline evaluate the project idea as well. She also shared that the student should remember that the format of the practicums and capstone project is an exceptionally limited time. With this a topic that can be worked on rapidly and has time to show results or improvement is important. Having a great description of the idea, the problem, what research is available to study, and what the student plans to do to assist with improving the problem is critical to starting a project.
Developing a Timeline
Capstone projects have many necessary advances and a timeline for each step is an important part of starting. Making a timeline that the student, preceptor, and professor can follow is vital to staying on task, seeing any barriers that arise, and attempting to guarantee the barriers and projects are completed within the deadlines. With this project, three special deadlines must be met, and having each section mapped out in a timeline is certainly a way to keep all pieces noticeable for everyone engaged with the project and also allows the project manager, the student in this case, to follow the work, mark off the completion, and report on upcoming concerns or steps.
Measurable Objectives and Metrics
Objectives for the project are necessary and show a wandering progression of how the project will move forward. Metrics are important to show that a topic or idea has an ought to be investigated or improved. On the off chance that metrics are favorable, the ongoing cycles in place don’t need work. Showing a problem exists with metrics is one of the most important phases in settling a project topic and the requirement for additional research. On the other hand, having the ability to follow the metrics once a project is started and another cycle is implemented shows on the off chance that the new interaction is improving the metrics. It also helps monitor the new cycle long-term to guarantee that it is being sustained.
Analysis of Literature
Analyzing and investigating available literature on the project topic is a large time-consuming step. It is important to allow a ton of time to do the literature search and more to study this literature to check whether it assists with your project and your speculations. Dr. Murr shared that sometimes while searching for literature on a topic it may be limited. In this manner, expanding your search to incorporate areas that may be secondary or correlate with the topic at hand may assist the student with meeting the necessary quantity of literature articles. This step of a capstone project allows the student to become an educated authority on the topic of interest. An annotated biography will be created from the literature audit that will become the proof for the capstone project.
Implementation
Once the project idea is picked, metrics are evaluated, and literature is examined a student can begin the implementation of the solution. The student will be the implementation of the project solution with the assistance of the multidisciplinary team, education of staff, and monitoring of the new cycle. This piece is the being of assisting the health system with understanding the why behind the requirement for change, implementing the new walks of change, evaluating any barriers to the change, and continuing to measure the advancement. Implementation is a vital stage in the capstone project and repeating the education, or training for the new cycle may be necessary to guarantee the change is sustained.
Evaluation
The N550 Module 1 Assignment 2 Initial Teleconference step allows the student to review the means of the project that have been completed and make a logical statement on the achievement or failures of the project. Evaluations incorporate assessing the metrics when the new interaction has been completed. It allows the student the chance to check whether barriers exist that may be examined for additional audit, and it also allows the student the potential chance to say something regarding the achievement or failure of what happened during the project. Projects are important to help a health system move forward and improve. Using the evaluation step gives a final examination of what happened, what didn’t happen, and how another project may help improve what the system learned during this project.
Conclusion
Practicums and Capstone projects are a vital part of the Master of Nursing program. The practice and project allow the student the ability to show the instructor what the student has learned all through the course work, and it also allows the student a real-time entryway to work with a nursing leader to assist with improving their cycles.
N550 Module 1 Assignment 2 Initial Teleconference
Watching out for ideas or problems, consulting with specialists in the area, investigating the metrics and objectives, researching the literature, developing a timeline to follow, and implementing the project are several means that must be taken to complete the project. Finally evaluating the project for multiple areas allows the student to understand the achievements, failures, barriers, and areas of future audits.