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Nursing Competency Alignment Project (Ncap), Lainey S. Kotta

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Background: The lack of a standardized nursing competency model for a large healthcare organization prevented it from opportunity as a system.

Objective: This evidence-based project's purpose was to select a nursing competency model that a large healthcare organization will use to evaluate nurses, standardize nursing competency training language for the healthcare organization, develop an education plan for nurse educators on the selected nursing competency model, and develop an implementation plan for the nursing competency model.

Methods: This project utilized a three-cycle Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) change framework. Cycle One involved nursing leaders from the eight hospitals and 60 clinics of the large …

Initial Competency Tool To Assist Preceptors In The Documentation Of The New Rn Competency, Katherine Frost Schulz

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

Health organizations rely on Registered Nurse (RN) preceptors to train and evaluate new RN’s competence. A competency tool guides and documents a new RN’s competency to adequately perform the skills needed for their position. This DNP project utilized preceptor input to optimize the competency tool to improve the preceptor’s ease of use, clear expectations for each competency, and improved the preceptor to preceptor handoff. This quality improvement project involved surveying RN preceptors for their perception of the initial competency tool throughout its development and after implementation. Preceptors reported a dramatically improved preceptor perception of the initial competency tool. Survey results …