NURS 470 - Nursing Capstone

3 Credit(s)

This course provides the student with a synthesis practicum experience designed in collaboration with a faculty member and community representative, and completed within an appropriate health care or community based care setting. Students will integrate knowledge of evidence-based practice, quality and safety initiatives, leadership, an all previous coursework to design, implement, and lead an interdisciplinary team project to improve client outcomes. The project must demonstrate ability to synthesize and apply the knowledge and skills acquired in the RN to BSN program to real-world nursing issues and problems. This final project demonstrates student’s ability to think critically and creatively, to solve practical problems related to nursing practice or the facilitation of patient-centered care, to make reasoned and ethical decisions, and to effectively communicate orally and in writing. Students must be enrolled in the ASU RN or BSN online program.

Prerequisite(s):
NURS 460 Minimum Grade: C OR T

Co-requisite(s): NURS 460