NU 801 - Project Development and Management

The course focuses on designing and preparing a quality improvement Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project. In this course, students will review expectations for a DNP project, examine completed DNP projects, identify a practice problem, create a project prospectus, develop a project protocol, create a project timeline, estimate costs associated with the proposed project, submit Institutional Review Board (IRB) project approval application, secure a project stakeholder/liaison agreement, and complete preparations necessary to support implementation, where possible, of the project. Semester Credit Hours: 2.00 Contact Hours: 0/0/90/90 Prerequisites: NU 700 - Knowledge for Nursing Practice. Corequisites: NU 710 - Improvement Science and NU 760 - Scholarship for Nursing Practice.