The leadership project is an activity designed to assist students in applying concepts, theories, and principles learned in NUR 4827C Leadership in Nursing Practice. You should develop this project in conjunction with your professor. This will be in response to an identified need based in your own clinical practice.

Based on the AACN’s Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Nursing, the student will identify a quality care or patient safety issue that exists in their clinical setting and create a proposal with goals, objectives, and strategies to address the issue. This project will integrate and demonstrate leadership and/ or management qualities which include identification of the problem, data collection, research review and interprofessional communication. Included are elements of budgeting, staffing, staff and patient satisfaction, and measurable elements that can be evaluated. The project will require collaboration with stakeholders such as quality councils, finance, nursing, and other departments. The student will attempt to present the proposed project to the leadership of the facility. Course faculty will guide the students in completion of this assignment. Your implementation and measurement strategies must be developed from evidence-based literature and be presented in correct APA format.

EBP Leadership Scholarly Paper for the Project:

The project focuses on a need of the unit/agency where you practice. It is a demonstration of how you have mastered the process improvement and evidence-based professional practice content grounded in the nursing process based on evidence from previous courses. The project will be presented in a scholarly paper that includes the following:

Brief description of the practice setting
Clear definition of the management or leadership problem
Significance of the problem for nursing practice
Review of the literature related to the problem (supported by peer-reviewed references)
Proposed interventions to address the problem – Include alternatives and why you chose one intervention over the other (supported by peer-reviewed references)
Resources required to implement – Personnel, equipment and fiscal, stakeholders, regulatory/ legal components
Potential barriers and how to overcome
How you will evaluate your intervention -Specific, Measurable, Attainable Goals or Outcomes – Includes the time frame and how you will measure the goals. Include any results, if implemented and available. Use SMART goals.
Impact of the proposed interventions – Anticipated if not implemented completely
How will you disseminate your results after the completion of the project?