DNP 960 TOPIC 1 INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS PLAN (ISP) Planning is the key to successful completion of the Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project. The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment in this course requires your collaboration with your chair early on to establish a plan for successful completion of mutually identified and agreed upon specific deliverables for your programmatic requirements. Programmatic requirements are: (1) completion of required practice

DNP 960 TOPIC 1 INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS PLAN (ISP)

Planning is the key to successful completion of the Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project. The Individual Success Plan (ISP) assignment in this course requires your collaboration with your chair early on to establish a plan for successful completion of mutually identified and agreed upon specific deliverables for your programmatic requirements. Programmatic requirements are: (1) completion of required practice immersion hours, (2) completion of work associated with program competencies, and (3) work associated toward completion of your Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment as it pertains to deliverables due in this course:

• Locate and download “Individual Success Plan” (ISP) document in the DC Network.
• Review the “DNP Program Milestones” document and identify which milestones apply to this course. Note: Not all courses have milestones.
• Determine what practice experiences you plan to seek in order to address each competency. Include how many hours you plan to set aside to meet your goals. Learners will apply concepts from each of their core courses to reflect upon, critically examine, and improve current practice and are required to integrate scholarly readings to develop case reports that demonstrate increasingly complex and proficient practice.
• Use the Individual Success Plan to develop a personal plan for completing your practice hours and how competencies will be met. Show all of the major milestones and deliverables.
• Within the Individual Success Plan, ensure you identify specific deliverables which can include the following: individualized DNP practice immersion contracts; comprehensive clinical log of hours applied to doctoral level learning outcomes; learner evaluations; mentor evaluations; current and updated CV; scholarly activities; GCU DNP competency self-assessment; reflective journal; course goals and plan for how competencies and practice immersion hours will be met; faculty and mentor approvals of course goals and documented practice immersion hours; and DPI Project milestones.
• Identify the specific deliverables you will complete throughout this course from those defined above or others negotiated with your faculty. You need to turn in a new Individual Success Plan for each DNP course.
• Identify the remaining deliverables you will complete in the upcoming courses.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

Consider the challenges you expect to encounter as you continue the practice hour and competency requirements throughout this course? How might you overcome these challenges?

You can renegotiate these deliverables with your faculty throughout this course and update your Individual Success plan accordingly.

Directions:

Complete the Contact Information table at the beginning of the ISP resource, and type in your signature and the date on which you completed the table.

Read the information in the ISP document including the following:

1. Learner expectations.
2. Derivation of the ISP.
3. Instructions for completing the ISP.

Follow the instructions and complete the ISP.

Portfolio Practice Hours

Learners will track their practice hours within the Typhon Tracking System throughout each course and via the Practice Hours Completion Statement provided in this assignment.

Complete the following statement in a Word document, submit it to the instructor, and complete the Typhon Tracking System entries appropriate for this course.

Practice Hours Completion Statement DNP-960

I, (INSERT NAME), verify that I have completed (NUMBER OF) practice hours in association with the goals and objectives for this course. I have also tracked said practice hours in the Typhon Student Tracking System for verification purposes and will be sure that all approvals are in place from my faculty and practice mentor.

DNP 960 TOPIC 1 COURSE COMPLETION AND PROGRESSION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

During DNP-960, you will be required to complete your IRB submission. You will need to have facility IRB approval (if your facility has an IRB) prior to submitting to GCU. If your project site does not have an IRB, you will be required to have site approval. GCU IRB submission is a mandatory achievement at this point in the program. If you do not submit to GCU IRB within the prescribed timeframe of the DNP-960 course, you will receive a zero for the Topic 3 assignment and you will not progress to DNP-965. Please utilize all of the IRB submission resources available in DC Network and iMedRIS (iRIS).

General Requirements:

1. Confirm that your project meets the GCU DPI requirement; that it translates existing knowledge or guidelines into clinical practice to improve patient outcomes.
2. Ensure that your clinical questions are feasible with your population and clinical site and in alignment with your method, design, data collection, and data analysis.
3. Remove comments and track-changes from your proposal before submission to IRB.
4. Accurate grammar, APA style, and scholarly writing is required. Please note that your chairperson is not an editor. You will be responsible for ensuring your compliance with APA.
5. Remember that your manuscript will undergo several reviews from your chairperson, content expert, AQRs, department chairperson, and dean that will require multiple iterations. Please be open to feedback and incorporate the feedback into your manuscript to improve quality and rigor.

Looking ahead:

1. In DNP-960 or DNP-965, after you receive GCU IRB approval, you can begin your project implementation. You should never be sitting idle while waiting for IRB approval. Begin writing your templates for Chapters 4 and 5 (without data until implementation with IRB approval). Your negotiated deliverables should include as much progress on these chapters as possible in the form of a working draft.
2. In DNP-965, you will need to submit a final completed manuscript in Topic 5 to AQR. If you are unable to complete this submission within the designated timeframe, you will be required to take an extension course to finish your project or manuscript. In Topic 8, you will submit your final committee-approved manuscript for departmental review. You will have the opportunity for one iteration with the department until your manuscript is sent for Dean Review. If your manuscript is not deemed ready to be sent to the dean by the department, you will be required to take an extension course to continue to work with your chairperson. You will need to have a dean-approved manuscript, completed all courses with a passing grade, and 1,000 practice immersion hours to be eligible for graduation.

Directions:

Complete the following statement in a Word document and submit it to your instructor by the end of Topic 1.

I, (INSERT NAME), verify that I have read, understand, and will comply with all requirements set forth for course completion and progression. I have reviewed the DPI Project requirements and am fully aware of my options if I am not able to successfully complete the required level of milestone development.

DNP 960 TOPIC 1 DPI-COMMITTEE-APPROVED DOCUMENT REVIEW

This assignment is in preparation for submission of your DPI-Committee-Approved DPI Project Proposal to iRIS (IRB portal) in Topic 3. For this assignment, you will submit all of the documents to your instructor in the LoudCloud for review. You will also make sure the documents are uploaded to the iRIS portal, and are ready for your instructor’s review.

Note: Learners are required to submit their application through iRIS (IRB portal) in Topic 3 according to the required instructions, or no later than Topic 7 of this course. Late submissions after Topic 3 will earn less than full points. Learners who do not submit the application to IRB as described by the end of Topic 7 will not pass this course, and will be required to retake DNP-960.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

1. APA format is required. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
2. You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Procedures:

1. Review the resources within the IRB Documents Folder, located on the DC Network. Navigate to the IRB Documents Folder by selecting DNP Community, DNP Program Documents, DNP-960 Folder, and then the IRB Documents Folder.
2. Review the “IRB Submission Training Videos for iRIS.”
3. Read the “IRB Documents Checklist for DNP Learners,” located in the DNP-960 Folder.
4. Review the “Step-by-Step Instructions for Preparing and Submitting for IRB Review” document, located in the DNP-960 Folder.
5. In conjunction with your chairperson, determine which documents you will need to submit for your IRB application, based on the “IRB Documents Checklist for DNP Learners,” located in the DNP-960 Folder.
6. Use the following document templates as needed: informed consent, site authorization letter, recruitment script, confidentiality statement, conflict of interest form, and HIPAA form, located in the DNP-960 Folder, and then the IRB Documents Folder.
7. As you assemble the required documents, continue working on your proposal revisions from AQR and committee feedback. The proposal (Chapters 1-3) is not required for this submission but will be required as part of your final IRB package in Topic 3.
8. This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

DNP 960 TOPIC 2 DPI PROJECT – PROPOSAL DEFENSE POWERPOINT AND CALL

In this topic, you will participate with your full DPI committee in the DPI Project Proposal Defense call. This meeting requires that you present your revised DPI Project Proposal in PowerPoint form as it stands at this time.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Locate the “DNP Project Proposal Defense Template” in the PI Workspace area of the DC Network.
• While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
• This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

Directions:

1. Using the “DNP Project Proposal Oral Defense Template” as your guide, create a PowerPoint presentation of your DPI Project Proposal, to be used during your DPI Project Proposal Defense call.
2. Schedule a conference call using a free webinar service (such as  Skype or Zoom) with your full DPI committee.
3. Present the revised Project Proposal PowerPoint to your full DPI committee.
4. Submit the completed document to your DPI chairperson.

Portfolio Practice Hours:

Practice immersion assignments are based on your current course objectives, and are intended to be application-based learning using your real-world practice setting. These assignments earn practice immersion hours, and are indicated in the assignment by a Portfolio Practice Hours statement that reminds you, the learner, to enter in a corresponding case log in Typhon. Actual clock hours are entered, but the average hours associated with each practice immersion assignment is 10.

You are required to complete your assignment using real-world application. Real-world application requires the use of evidence-based data, contemporary theories, and concepts presented in the course. The culmination of your assignment must present a viable application in a current practice setting. For more information on parameters for practice immersion hours, please refer to DNP resources in the DC Network.

To earn portfolio practice hours, enter the following after the references section of your paper:

Practice Hours Completion Statement DNP-960

I, (INSERT NAME), verify that I have completed (NUMBER OF) clock hours in association with the goals and objectives for this assignment. I have also tracked said practice hours in the Typhon Student Tracking System for verification purposes and will be sure that all approvals are in place from my faculty and practice mentor.

DNP 960 TOPIC 3 IRB – DPI-COMMITTEE-APPROVED PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

You are required to submit your DPI-Committee-Approved DPI Project Proposal to iRIS by the end of this topic. Note: Learners are required to submit this assignment in full and according to the required instructions no later than Topic 7 of this course. Late submissions after Topic 3 will earn less than full points. Learners who do not submit this assignment as described by the end of Topic 7 will not pass this course, and will be required to retake DNP-960.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to assist you in executing the correct procedures for timely, successful completion of the assignment:

1. APA format is required. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
2. You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Procedures:

1. Review the resources within the IRB Documents Folder, located on the DC Network. Navigate to the IRB Documents Folder by selecting DNP Community, DNP Program Documents, DNP-960 Folder, and then the IRB Documents Folder.
2. Read the “IRB Documents Checklist for DNP Learners,” located in the DNP-960 Folder.
3. Review the IRB Submission Training Videos for iRIS.
4. Review “How to Start Your Application in iRIS,” located in the DNP-960 Folder.
5. With your chairperson, determine which documents you will need to submit for your IRB application, based on the “IRB Documents Checklist for DNP Learners,” located in the DNP-960 Folder.
6. Use the following document templates as needed: informed consent, site authorization letter, recruitment script, confidentiality statement, conflict of interest form, and HIPAA authorization form, located in the DNP-960 Folder/IRB Documents Folder.
7. Incorporate any/all feedback, as required from the DPI committee proposal defense process.
8. Resubmit the DPI Project Proposal (if applicable) to your DPI committee for final approval.

Directions for Submission:

Upload the following IRB application forms to the IRB portal, as they pertain to your specific DPI Project, and to the assignment drop box for your chairperson to review and approve:

1. IRB Application Form – Complete the online application form in iRIS using the “How to Start Your Application in iRIS” and “How to Complete the Initial Submission Packet” resources, located in the DNP-960 folder. Save a PDF copy and submit it to the assignment drop box.
2. DPI-committee-approved proposal with all required revisions.
3. CITI training reports (human research basic course and RCR).
4. Site authorization letter (on letterhead, signed, and dated by authorizing official) or IRB approval letter from the hospital or clinical site.
5. Conflict of interest form – This is now included in the online application form in iRIS. Make sure to complete this section in the application.
6. Confidentiality statement– This is now included in the online application form in iRIS. Make sure to complete this section in the application.

If applicable, also submit the following:

1. Informed consent documents.
2. Recruiting materials.
3. Copies of surveys, instruments, interview questions or measures.
4. Permission letters or e-mails to use the surveys and instruments (if needed).
5. HIPAA Authorization Form.

After your chairperson has approved your application materials, follow the “Create a New Submission Packet in iRIS” resource instructions. Upload your chairperson-approved IRB documents and notify your chairperson that the project is ready to be submitted via the Individual Forum and in iRIS.

Important: Your DNP chairperson is the only individual who can submit your project in iRIS.

Portfolio Practice Hours:

Practice immersion assignments are based on your current course objectives, and are intended to be application-based learning using your real-world practice setting. These assignments earn practice immersion hours, and are indicated in the assignment by a Portfolio Practice Hours statement that reminds you, the learner, to enter in a corresponding case log in Typhon. Actual clock hours are entered, but the average hours associated with each practice immersion assignment is 10.

You are required to complete your assignment using real-world application. Real-world application requires the use of evidence-based data, contemporary theories, and concepts presented in the course. The culmination of your assignment must present a viable application in a current practice setting. For more information on parameters for practice immersion hours, please refer to DNP resources in the DC Network.

To earn portfolio practice hours, enter the following after the references section of your paper:

Practice Hours Completion Statement DNP-960

I, (INSERT NAME), verify that I have completed (NUMBER OF) clock hours in association with the goals and objectives for this assignment. I have also tracked said practice hours in the Typhon Student Tracking System for verification purposes and will be sure that all approvals are in place from my faculty and practice mentor.

DNP 960 TOPIC 6 DPI PROJECT – WORKING DRAFT CHAPTER 4 OR NEGOTIATED PROGRESS DELIVERABLE

DNP 960 TOPIC 7 DPI PROJECT – WORKING DRAFT CHAPTER 5 OR NEGOTIATED PROGRESS DELIVERABLE

DNP 960 TOPIC 8 PRACTICE HOURS PORTFOLIO – DPI PROJECT COURSES

DNP 960 TOPIC 8 FINAL EVALUATION BY FACULTY