NU 407P - Evidence Based Practice Clinical Capstone

• Assignments: 5 Units
• Interactivity: Discussion Boards
• Final Assessment: Successful Completion of all Practicum and Written Course Requirements

Practicum requirements include 135 hours devoted to serving the health promotion needs of a specific audience in a community-based setting. These hours are on and off-site practice experiences that include review and application of evidence, such as through health teaching and educational interventions. This experience promotes each student’s nursing leadership and contributes to community nursing presence.

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate integration of all prior course work through provision of safe, competent care. 
• Demonstrate critical thinking in independently appraising new situations. 
• Identify and prioritize needs from assessment data using appropriate criteria drawn from public health theory.
• Consistently apply nursing process to develop, evaluate, and revise plans of care. 
• Identify resources in the community and make appropriate referrals or plans for coordination of care; use effective verbal, non-verbal, and written communication with preceptor, agency personnel, and clients, including the development of a formal written proposal for project development; apply leadership/management theories to describe interactions within clinical situations, and leaders’ effectiveness in such interactions.
• Actively and appropriately participate in agency projects or conferences, including demonstrating effective problem solving and conflict resolution within groups or between individuals; identify value systems of groups and communities and accept their rights to function according to their own value systems.
• State and apply legal, moral, ethical, and Christian humanistic principles in the care of patients, groups, or communities; seek out, critique, and utilize findings from published research in clinical decision making.