Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project
A Guide for Students
- 1st Edition - October 29, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Mary Frances Terhaar, Laura A. Taylor
- Language: English
Embark on your DNP project journey with confidence! Written by leading DNP education experts, Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project: A Guide for Students helps you plan f… Read more
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Description
Description
Embark on your DNP project journey with confidence! Written by leading DNP education experts, Navigating Your DNP Journey and DNP Project: A Guide for Students helps you plan for and anticipate the effort ahead, offering proven strategies to sidestep common frustrations and impediments. This practical book also serves as a unique “how-to” guide that removes the confusion around DNP project purpose, rigor, and requirements, helping you plan, execute, and disseminate a high-quality project. Logically organized content is useful to consult throughout the program, making this an essential companion for students, faculty, preceptors, and mentors.
Key features
Key features
- Concise, practical coverage leads students, faculty, preceptors, and mentors through all components of rigorous DNP projects, including planning, implementation, and dissemination
- Historical perspective of the DNP degree explores its origins and discusses the role of the DNP in planning and leading change
- Step-by-step guidance walks you through the process of planning, executing, and disseminating an evidence-based practice change
- Publication and advocacy content offers valuable guidance on disseminating knowledge
- Key Points to Remember section at the end of each chapter offers a helpful summary of essential content
Readership
Readership
Students in Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) programs
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Origin Story of the DNP
2. Essentials for Graduate Nurses
3. Understanding Your Why
4. Projects as Vehicles for Change
5. Becoming a Doctoral Student
6. Making the Most of Your Time
7. Activating Your Network
8. Optimizing Your Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience
9. Reverse Design: Setting Your Goals and Working Backward from There
10. The Complexities of Health Care Call for Team Spirit
11. Working with Your Advisor
12. Developing Your Leadership Presence
13. Becoming a Powerful Professional Writer
14. Selecting a Good Problem
15. Theory-Guided Practice
16. Translation and Change Models
17. Planning and Implementing Your Project
18. Seeking Approval from the Institutional Review Board or Other Body
19. Introduction to Working with Data: Planning to Get the Data You Need
20. Analyzing and Understanding Your Data
21. Putting it All Together and Thriving
22. Case Studies as Evidence of Competence
23. Portfolio as Evidence of Clinical Mastery
24. Simulation-Based Evidence of Competence
25. Project Evaluation as Evidence of Competence
26. Working with Children
27. Finding Your Voice: Moving from the BSN to the DNP
28. Anesthesia Practice Experiences
29. Iterative Nature of Doctoral Work
30. Complementary Practice Projects
31. Special Considerations for Team Projects
32. Intraprofessional Team Projects
33. Knowing Yourself as a DNP
2. Essentials for Graduate Nurses
3. Understanding Your Why
4. Projects as Vehicles for Change
5. Becoming a Doctoral Student
6. Making the Most of Your Time
7. Activating Your Network
8. Optimizing Your Health, Wellbeing, and Resilience
9. Reverse Design: Setting Your Goals and Working Backward from There
10. The Complexities of Health Care Call for Team Spirit
11. Working with Your Advisor
12. Developing Your Leadership Presence
13. Becoming a Powerful Professional Writer
14. Selecting a Good Problem
15. Theory-Guided Practice
16. Translation and Change Models
17. Planning and Implementing Your Project
18. Seeking Approval from the Institutional Review Board or Other Body
19. Introduction to Working with Data: Planning to Get the Data You Need
20. Analyzing and Understanding Your Data
21. Putting it All Together and Thriving
22. Case Studies as Evidence of Competence
23. Portfolio as Evidence of Clinical Mastery
24. Simulation-Based Evidence of Competence
25. Project Evaluation as Evidence of Competence
26. Working with Children
27. Finding Your Voice: Moving from the BSN to the DNP
28. Anesthesia Practice Experiences
29. Iterative Nature of Doctoral Work
30. Complementary Practice Projects
31. Special Considerations for Team Projects
32. Intraprofessional Team Projects
33. Knowing Yourself as a DNP
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: October 29, 2026
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
Mary Frances Terhaar
Author
Mary Frances Terhaar, Professor and Associate Dean for the Graduate Programs, Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova, Pennsylvania.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Associate Dean for the Graduate Programs, Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USALaura A. Taylor
Author
With more than 30 years in the nursing education community, Dr. Taylor has earned national and international recognition as a strong leader who shapes practice, policy and education.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Program Director, Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist Program, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA