10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project Week Two Assignment Instructions DNP 820 Please read the instructions thoroughly there are strict requirements I need at least 10 different articles/literature reviews added to the ones in the 815 attachment. I have also included the chart to be filled out All within 5 years and pertinent to the subject. Tutor MUST have a good command of the English language The Rubric must be followed, and all the requirements met This is a thorough professor, and she has strict requirements I have attached the PICOT and the first 10 points (DNP 815) assignment. This is a continuation of that assignment. Please read the attachments The following needs to be addressed: Please note the followings: The introduction and the literature review are complete and thorough. The problem statement is written clearly PICOT is clear and very good Sample:  · How will you determine the sample size?  · What are the inclusion/exclusion criteria of the subjects? Methodology: Why is the selected methodology is appropriate? Please justify!  · Data collection approach needs to be clear. How will you collect your data? What is needed here is to describe the process of collecting data form signing the informed consent until completing the measuring. · Data analysis-What test will you use to answer your research question?  Clinical/PICOT Questions:   “In adult patients with CVC at a Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, does interventional staff education about hub hygiene provided to RN’s who access the CVC impact CLABSI rates compared to standard care over a one-month period?” P: Patients with Central Venous Catheters I: Staff re-education related to Hygiene of the hub C: Other hospitals O: Reduce probability of CLABSIs T: Two months “In Patients > 65 years of age with central line catheters at a Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, how does staff training of key personnel and reinforcement of central line catheter hub hygiene after its insertion, along with the apt cleansing of the insertion site, before every approach compared with other area hospitals, reduce the incidence of CLABSIs (Central Line Associated Blood-stream Infections) over a one-month period?” P: Patients > 65 years of age with a Central line I: Staff training and reinforcement of Central Catheter, Hub Hygiene  C: Other area hospitals  O: Reduce probability of CLABSIs “In adult patients, with define CVC (CVC), does interventional staff education about hub hygiene provided to RN’s who access the CVC impact CLABSI rates compared to pre and post-intervention assessments  1. I used central Missouri as an example, replace with a description of your site.  2. While you might be interested in CLASBI rates as a primary variable, there are other patient outcomes that would also be important to consider 3. Ensure you can find validity and reliability measures on CLASBI rates if you cannot, we need t ...

1. 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal, and Direct
Practice Improvement Project
Week Two Assignment Instructions DNP 820
Please read the instructions thoroughly there are strict
requirements
I need at least 10 different articles/literature reviews added to
the ones in the 815 attachment. I have also included the chart to
be filled out All within 5 years and pertinent to the subject.
Tutor MUST have a good command of the English language
The Rubric must be followed,
and all the requirements met
This is a thorough professor, and she has strict requirements
I have attached the PICOT and the first 10 points (DNP 815)
assignment. This is a continuation of that assignment. Please
read the attachments
The following needs to be addressed:
Please note the followings: The introduction and the literature
review are complete and thorough. The problem statement is
written clearly PICOT is clear and very good Sample:
·

2. How will you determine the sample size?
·
What are the inclusion/exclusion criteria of the subjects?
Methodology: Why is the selected methodology is appropriate?
Please justify!
·
Data collection approach needs to be clear. How will you
collect your data? What is needed here is to describe the process
of collecting data form signing the informed consent until
completing the measuring.
·
Data analysis-What test will you use to answer your research
question?
Clinical/PICOT Questions:
“In adult patients with CVC
at a Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, does interventional
staff education about hub hygiene provided to RN’s who access
the CVC impact CLABSI rates compared to standard care over a
one-month period?”
P: Patients with Central Venous Catheters
I: Staff re-education related to Hygiene of the hub
C: Other hospitals
O: Reduce probability of CLABSIs
T: Two months

3. “In Patients > 65 years of age with central line catheters at a
Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, how does staff training of
key personnel and reinforcement of central line catheter hub
hygiene after its insertion, along with the apt cleansing of the
insertion site, before every approach compared with other area
hospitals, reduce the incidence of CLABSIs (Central Line
Associated Blood-stream Infections) over a one-month period?”
P: Patients > 65 years of age with a Central line
I: Staff training and reinforcement of Central Catheter, Hub
Hygiene
C: Other area hospitals
O: Reduce probability of CLABSIs
“In adult patients, with
define CVC (CVC), does interventional staff education about
hub hygiene provided to RN’s who access the CVC impact
CLABSI rates compared to pre and post-intervention
assessments
1. I used central Missouri as an example, replace with a
description of your site.
2. While you might be interested in CLASBI rates as a primary
variable, there are other patient outcomes that would also be
important to consider
3. Ensure you can find validity and reliability measures on
CLASBI rates if you cannot, we need to determine another
question to help

4. 4. How are your two comparison groups different, as they are
currently stated the groups seem very much the same, could you
state, standard care instead of pre and post intervention
assessments?
5. One month is the longest time you can use for a prospective
project
Please note the following regarding the instructors grading
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT MY GRADING STYLE
As you prepare for written papers and manuscripts I’d like to
give you some details about my grading style. I provide
significant feedback on your papers, this is because I believe
you should be working towards improving your writing so that
at the end of this program you are able to successfully write
your DPI project. In order to write well, you need feedback and
you need to review that feedback and make progress on the next
written work. To that end I always grade accordingly. This
means that if I provide feedback one an item (for example APA
format of your reference page) I expect that this will be
improved on the next written submission. Otherwise I will
deduct additional points. In addition, some other criteria to get
down pat now. References should always
1.
Be current, no older than 5 years that means 5 years from your
proposed graduation date (2014-2019). Otherwise you will have
to redo everything in DNP 955.
2.
Be primary sources. You can no longer cite Young declared
literary war in 1956 (as cited by Brown 2006). You must cite

5. Young 1956. That means go find that paper and read it and
make sure that you agree with what Brown said. What if you
don’t agree due to some very valid points? Then the literary war
is not what occurred, but instead you have concerns regarding
point ____, ____, and ____.
3.
You may no longer cite textbooks, they are 1) secondary
sources and 2) not current enough, and please use peer reviewed
manuscripts.
One more item that is not a reference. You may not use direct
quotes any longer. There is no need. This may be difficult at
first, but you are moving towards a different type of writing.
This is manuscript writing (scientific writing). Scientific
writing is terse, clear, and concise. No frilly words. In order to
avoid the use of direct quotes you will synthesize the literature.
There is a great resource for synthesizing the literature under
Resources – Add-ons. These are also some other great writing
resources there.
Details:
In the prospectus, proposal, and scholarly project there are 10
strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and
aligned to ensure the research is doable, valuable, and credible.
The 10 strategic points emerge from researching literature on a
topic that is based on or aligned with the learner's personal
passion, future career purpose, and degree area. These 10 points
provide a guiding vision for DPI Project. In this assignment,
you will continue the work begun in DNP-815, working on your
draft of a document addressing the 10 key strategic points that
define your intended research focus and approach.

6. General Requirements:
Use the following information to ensure successful completion
of the assignment:
Locate the "The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus,
Proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project” that you
completed in DNP-815.
Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their
writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the
Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please Review the rubric
prior to the beginning to become familiar with the
expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin.
Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
Directions:
Use the "The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal,
and Direct Practice Improvement Project" resource to draft
statements for each of the 10 points for your intended research
study.
You worked on this last in DNP 815. Pick up from where you
left off
(if you transferred in and did not complete this, you will have
to begin fresh).
Please include a copy of your last instructor feedback when you
submit this assignment. You can either copy and paste the

7. instructor feedback into your current paper (as an appendix and
clearly marked); or upload two separate papers. I expect
significant improvement from your last submission.
Please review the 10 Strategic Points document for additional
instructions and an example. Add references to this document,
I suggest 5-10 at this point.
You need to realize that your literature review chapter will
need at least 50+ articles by the time you get to DNP 955, so
work on expanding your literature search each week, to include
more and more to this paper as you move through each course.
If you cannot locate 50+ articles you can ask your faculty for
assistance or chose a different topic.
For the methodology and design sections. Methodology should
cover the broad methods you plan to use (qualitative,
quantitative, or mixed methods). The design portion will then
go into more detail and discuss the design (i.e. correlational,
cross-sectional, pre/posttest, etc.). Describe each and explain
why your chosen methodology and design are appropriate to
your topic and project questions. You may NOT use qualitative,
GCU leadership does not support a qualitative methodology.
Intervention. You must have an intervention that you
implement. Since you cannot evaluate a project that has already
been implemented, please write up a description of your
intervention and what your role will be in implementing this
intervention. This is not a section listed on your 10 Strategic
Points document as of yet, so add it after the methodology and
design sections. Describe step by step what the intervention
consists of, how it is evidence based, how you will implement,
and your role in implementation.
Data collection should go step by step (extremely over-detailed)
on how you will collect the data. Tell me about all instruments,
surveys, and/or questions you will ask of participants. One

8. MUST be a valid and reliable tool.
Data Analysis. Tell me the specific statistics you will use. Start
with descriptive statistics, which ones will you use, why (cite
current primary sources). Then tell me how you will compare
your data (which statistic), what your p value will be before you
start your data collection.
Apply Rubrics