Journeying through the DNP project: A qualitative, descriptive study.

Background: As a requirement of doctor in nursing practice (DNP) programs, a final scholarly project is required. Little is known about the student experience initiating, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating the scholarly DNP project.

Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative, descriptive study was to explore descriptions of what it is like to move through the DNP project process, from the perspective of successful recent DNP graduates.

Implementing a New Capstone Leadership Clinical Course.

Background: Nurse educators are challenged to ensure clinical education meets the changing health care environments and needs.

Problem: New nurses remain unprepared for practice, have insufficient foundational leadership capacities, and lack systems-thinking awareness.

Approach: Responding to educational gaps, increased enrollment, and scarce clinical placements, faculty used an eclectic education model to develop a new capstone leadership clinical course that included 5 types of experiences.

Rehospitalizations, early revisions, infections, and hospital resource use in the first year after hip and knee arthroplasties.

We examined 3 negative outcomes for 58 351 hip and knee arthroplasty patients: rehospitalization, revision and infection, and their impact on resource use in the year after surgery. In the year before surgery, 12.9% of elective hip and 10.