2010 Third National DNP Conference, San Diego

Breakout session W4 Details, Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 4PM
Monte Carlo Room

Andra Hanlon, PhD, ARNP, CPNP
Barry University, Miami Shores, FL
Capstone Expectations

Goal of Presentation:
The purpose is to describe the beliefs of the DNP student of the capstone, the understanding and expectations of the PhD prepared faculty, and develop a plan that will align capstone project goals and expectations, that are more appropriately evaluated.

Objectives:
1. The audience will have an improved understanding of the capstone project beliefs of DNP students.
2. The audience will be able to discuss the expectations of PhD prepared faculty in terms of the capstone project.
3. The audience will be able to describe strategies that will align the capstone project goals and expectations of students and faculty.

Speaker’s Background:
Dr. Andra Hanlon is an Associate Professor and Director of the NP and DNP Programs at Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida. She received her BSN from Georgetown University, an MS from Rutgers University in parent-child nursing, a post-master’s certificate as a pediatric nurse practitioner from Marquette University, and her PhD from Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Hanlon developed the DNP program at Barry University, and as a practicing pediatric nurse practitioner knows first-hand the importance of translating research into practice. Barry University will be starting its third cohort of post-master’s DNPs and will be initiating its first class of post-baccalaureate DNP students in the fall of 2010.

Dianne Fuller, DNP, MS, FNP-C
University of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT
Steering Students in Producing Stellar DNP Projects

Goal of Presentation:
The evolution of the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree has left many graduate faculty with questions about breadth and depth of appropriate DNP final projects. Through discussion and use of guiding principles outlined by American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculty (NONPF) this Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Baccalaureate to DNP program and Master’s to DNP program has developed approaches that are experiencing increasing success.

Objectives:
1. The learner will be able to articulate two approaches to assist BS to DNP students in appropriate project selection
2. The learner will be able to articulate two approaches to assist MS to DNP students in appropriate project selection
3. Through guided discussion the learner will analyze factors influencing the education of advanced practice nurses as DNPs specifically related to the final immersion project.

Speaker’s Background:
Dr. Dianne Fuller is an Associate Professor (Clinical) at the University of Utah College of Nursing in the primary care nurse practitioner program. Dr. Fuller has been a registered nurse for 33 years, a family nurse practitioner for 29 years. She has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 2003. Her primary focus as a nurse practitioner has been in family practice.

Dr. Fuller is the program director of the Master’s to Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at the University of Utah College of Nursing which began in 2007 and has now admitted it’s fourth cohort of students. This program has graduated over 50 DNP students.

Dr. Fuller is also a faculty member in the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program for Baccalaureate to Doctor of Nursing Practice students. She teaches courses during the student’s first year as well as clinical course throughout the program. This BS-DNP program began in 2008 and will have the first graduating class of 25 students in May 2011. There are 65 students in this program.

In addition to her role as a faculty member, Dr. Fuller’s past presentations include local, state and national presentations to Nurses, Physicians, Law Enforcement, Police Officer Standardized Trainings, District Attorney Office trainings, Volunteers in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault as well as multiple mixed audiences. She regularly provides trainings in the response to sexual violence, care for sexual assault and rape victims, as well as multiple medical issues. She has been the co-trainer in the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Training course for the last 8 years, training over 250 nurse examiners throughout the State of Utah.