The Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project incorporates 10 key or strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and aligned to ensure the project is doable, valuable, and credible. These points, which provide a guide or vision for the project, are present in almost any research. These 10 points are defined and instructions for completion of the “DPI Project Milestone: Outline of 10 Strategic Points” assignment are provided in "The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project," resource located in the DC Network.
Directions:
Download The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project. (The 10 strategic point included below)
Complete the table in the 10 strategic points DPI.
DPI PICOT Question:
Do postpartum mothers who participate in early and direct skin-to-skin contact, compared to mothers who do not participate in early and direct skin-to-skin contact report increased breastfeeding initiation rate, within first 24-hours after birth?
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In postpartum mothers and newborns, how does direct skin-to-skin contact, compared to no skin-to-skin contact, affect breastfeeding initiation as measured by infant’s ability to latch-on and effective suckling, when practiced within the first 24-hours after birth?
The 10 Strategic Points for the Prospectus, Proposal,and Direct Practice Improvement Project
Introduction
In theProspectus, Proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project, there are 10 key or strategic points that need to be clear, simple, correct, and aligned to ensure the project is doable,valuable, and credible. These points, which provide a guideor vision for the project, are present in almost any project. The 10 Strategic Points are defined within this document and a template provided. The ten strategic points are developed in a table format, as noted below.
The Process for Defining the 10 Strategic Points
The order of the 10 Strategic points listed below reflects the order in which the learner completes the work product. The first five strategic points focus primarily on defining the purpose or focus for the project based on a clearly defined need or gap from the literature as well as the learner’s passion and specialty area focus. First, learners identify a broad topic area to investigate for their Direct Practice Improvement (DPI) Project. Second, learners complete a review of the literature to define the need or gap to be addressed, the theories and models that will provide a foundation for the project, related themes that are needed to demonstrate the learner's expertise in the field and to define the key strategic points behind the learner's proposed project. Third, the learners develop a clear, simple, one-sentence problem statement that defines the problem or gap that will be addressed by the DPI project. Fourth, learners identify a potential population from which sample data will be collected for the project. Fifth, learners develop the clinical/PICOT question(s) that will define the data needed to address the problem statement.
Based on the first five strategic points above, learners next define the key aspects of the project methodology through the last five strategic points. The sixth point describes the independent and dependent variables. Seventh, learners determine if the project will be a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodology. Due to the evidence-based natureand feasibility of the DPI project requirement, most DPI projects will be utilizing a quantitative method because learners are not creating new evidence like that determined through qualitative or mixed methods.
For the eighth strategic point, learners develop a purpose statement by integrating the problem statement, methodology, design, sample, and location. Ninth, learners identify the data they will need to collect to address the clinical questions or PICOT components.This includes the variables, level of measurement, and method used to collect the data (e.g., interviews, focus groups, observations, tested and validated instruments or surveys, databases, public media, etc.). Tenth and last, learners identify the appropriate data analysis, based on their project design and variables, which will be used to answer the clinical questions and address the problem statement.
Criteria for Evaluating the 10 Strategic Points: Clear, Simple, Correct, and Aligned
When developing a project, it is important to define the 10 Strategic points, so they are simple, clear, and correct in order to ensure that anyone who reviews them will easily understand them. It is important to align all of the 10 Strategic points to ensure it will be possible to conduct and complete the project. The problem statement must be derived from the literature or practice problem. The clinical questions must be used to specify the variables or data to be collected to answer the problem statement. The methodology and design must be appropriate for the problem statement, clinical,and PICOT question(s). The data collection and data analysis must provide the information to answer the PICOT questions.
Developing the 10 Strategic Points document begins in DNP-815 begins as a two-or three-page document that can help ensure clarity, simplicity, correctness, and alignment of each of these 10 key or Strategic points in the prospectus, proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project. Developing these 10 Strategic points using this easy-to-use use template ensures the 10 Strategic points will always be worded the same throughout the prospectus, proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project manuscript. Please see the table below regarding the development of the citation requirements expected per course.
Value of the 10 Strategic Points Document
The 10 Strategic Points document can be used for communicating and aligning key stakeholders for the Direct Practice Improvement Project. This document can be used to obtain agreement between the learner and the chair regarding the initial focus and approach for the project. The document can be used to review the proposed project with the people or organizations from whom learners need to gain permission to conduct their project, a critical step required before learners can develop their proposal. The document also proves useful for communicating the Direct Practice Improvement Project focus when attracting a Content Expert, as well as for reviewing the proposal with the Direct Practice Improvement Project committee and the AQR reviewers. Learners may choose to consult methodologists, statisticians, and editors in the process of developing the final manuscript from the 10 Strategic points.
Examples of the 10 Strategic Points Document
It is important that the 10 Strategic points are clear, concise, doable, and aligned throughout the prospectus, proposal, and Direct Practice Improvement Project. Provided below is an example of a completed 10 Strategic Points document for a quantitative project. Following the example, a blank 10 Strategic PointsTable template is provided for learners to use when developingtheir own10 Strategic Point documents.
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