Purpose

In addition to seeing patients, advanced practice nurses are involved in initiatives to enhance patient care and improve health outcomes for patient populations at their clinic or organization. As SPU DNP students prepare for independent practice and work within a clinic or healthcare organization, the Immersion leadership project in NUR 7938 DNP Immersion Practicum will allow you to: 

• Develop strategies to integrate and balance your patient care workload with work on systems level health initiatives.
• Hone your skills in being a change agent participating in and leading health initiatives.
• Participate in inter-professional collaboration with other members of the healthcare team.
• Positively impact patient populations and organizational systems to improve patient care and health outcomes.

Project Description

The student will work with the clinic manager or medical director to complete a leadership project for the clinic.  The project is decided on by the clinic management team and is meant to meet the needs of the clinic and improve patient care and health outcomes. 

See NUR 7938 syllabus and assignment for further details and requirements.

Examples of leadership projects include:

• Quality improvement initiatives
• Implementation and evaluation of evidence-based practice guidelines
• Integration of a practice change
• Design and evaluation of new models of care
• Design and evaluation of health care programs
• Evaluation of a practice model
• Policy implementation, analysis, revision
• Design and use of databases to retrieve information for decision-making, planning, evaluation
• Design and evaluation of innovative uses of technology to enhance/evaluate care