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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - NGR7948
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2009-02-23
- Department: Nursing
- College: NR
- Budget Account Number: HSC 006201-10000
- Contact Person: Fran D'Avanzo-Schrader
- Phone: 69978
- Email: fdavanzo@health.usf.edu
- Prefix: NGR
- Number: 7948
- Full Title: DNP Clinical Residency
- Credit Hours: 1-9
- Section Type: I -
Internships (Including Practicum)
- Is the course title variable?: Y
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: Y
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): DNP Clinical Residency
- Course Online?: -
- Percentage Online:
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: Completion of course work for DNP or consent of program director
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: The DNP for the nurse practitioner includes additional educational preparation and clinical competencies derived from nationally developed core competencies that extend core competencies required for clinical practice of the Master’s prepared NP.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: Course has been taught under special topics number for several semesters; permanent number is requested.
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? The DNP Residency course is required for the DNP program.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, more than three times.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. Nursing
- Objectives: During this course the student will have the opportunity to:
1. Demonstrate clinical expertise through academic and professional presentations
2. Demonstrate leadership roles within the college of nursing and clinical residency practice settings
3. Analyze as a practitioner-scientist the evidence base for nursing and medical practice
4. Translate research and data to anticipate, predict, and explain variance in practice and health care policy
5. Apply knowledge of organizational systems and health policy to clinical practice
6. Apply mentoring skills to nursing students in the academic and clinical setting
7. Exhibit the clinical, managerial, and educational skills and competencies of the professional role of a DNP
- Learning Outcomes: During this course the student will have the opportunity to:
1. Demonstrate clinical expertise through academic and professional presentations
2. Demonstrate leadership roles within the college of nursing and clinical residency practice settings
3. Analyze as a practitioner-scientist the evidence base for nursing and medical practice
4. Translate research and data to anticipate, predict, and explain variance in practice and health care policy
5. Apply knowledge of organizational systems and health policy to clinical practice
6. Apply mentoring skills to nursing students in the academic and clinical setting
7. Exhibit the clinical, managerial, and educational skills and competencies of the professional role of a DNP
- Major Topics: DNP Residents are expected to immerse themselves in the academic role of the doctorally prepared nurse practitioner and educator. Individual DNP Residency Contracts will be developed for each resident. Residency placements will be dependent on the DNP resident’s current clinical expertise and tailored to optimize professional and practice goals. Residency clinical hours will vary depending on the clinical residency tract identified and embedded clinical competencies. Logic Models of the DNP resident’s professional objectives, goals, and progression though out the residency will be developed. Comprehensive clinical logs and procedures will be developed and maintained. Clinical evaluations from the DNP resident’s supervising clinician(s), the director of the clinical DNP program and self-evaluations will be required at pre-specified intervals.
Each DNP resident will development a DNP academic professional portfolio which will contain the following:
DNP Residency Contract
Clinical and Procedure Log
Logic Model
Clinical Evaluations
Current CV
Abstracts of Grand Rounds presentations
Letters of participation as a guest lecturer in any graduate NP course
Honors or awards
Publications
And any continuing education program, conference, or residency didactic syllabus
Participation in the seminar is mandatory. Continued exploration of the literature is ongoing and required
- Textbooks: Recommended Peer-Reviewed Journals:
JAMA
New England Journal of Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Any specialty-specific, peer-reviewed journal
Academic Professional Portfolio - The Center for 21st Teaching has a workshop on Professional Portfolio Development as well as many other workshops which you might want to participate in. All DNP residents will be eligible for participation. The schedule will be posted on their web-site by the first day of the semester. The web-site is www.cte.usf.edu
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.