Develop a Topic Report that describes the details of your DNP project and include a transcript from your CITI Training.
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In this assessment, you will need to complete your CITI Research and Ethics training and save a copy of the transcript. To help prepare you to draft your Topic Report, there are a variety of resources to help you create a PICOT question, define your role as a learner in the DNP project, revise your writing, and understand the important role comparisons play in the DNP project.
Overview
In this Topic Report, you will describe the details of your chosen DNP project. Make sure to address each criterion with the essential details required to grasp the project clearly and concisely. This assessment makes up the content sent for secondary review to obtain topic approval. Therefore, it is important to craft the Topic Report with the necessary components for the reader to clearly understand the details of your chosen DNP project.
Note: It is recommended that you use all three attempts and address mentor feedback from the previous attempts to develop each section of your topic report until proficient marks on all criteria are met.
Note: The assessments in this course must be completed in the order presented; subsequent assessments should be built on both your earlier work and your mentors feedback on earlier assessments. If you choose to submit assessments prematurely, without considering and integrating your mentors feedback, your assessment may be returned ungraded, resulting in your loss of an assessment attempt.
Preparation
To prepare for this assessment, reference the following material:
- CITI Training.
- Describing the Practice Site.
- Identifying Interventions.
Instructions
Your assessment will be assessed on the following criteria:
- Identify the project problem and relevant evidence.
- Present evidence (data) from the project site to support the problem/gap/need for quality improvement intervention. Discuss how the problem impacts individuals and/or stakeholder groups. Discuss why this problem needs to be addressed now. Include what the problem is, who is experiencing the problem, where the problem exists, and the professional/organizational context. Why does this site need your project? How do you know there is a problem? What metrics are you using to determine if there is a problem? Is there an organizational or established benchmark to compare baseline data? The information you present in this section should be sourced from the project site with the exception of a benchmark.
- Define the project site.
- Describe the project site’s characteristics, including the organization’s size, type of practice setting (e.g., hospital, clinic, department, hospital unit), and level of care delivery. Describe the location, including the geographic region and if the community is urban, rural, or suburban. How many patients are evaluated (daily, weekly, or monthly) in the specific area you plan to implement your project? Provide enough details so that the reader can clearly comprehend the project site without providing the details to be able to identify the site.
- Describe the support for your project at the project site.
- How do your project site and preceptor support your project? Explain how you facilitated discussions and interactions with stakeholders at your project site. What feedback or ideas did you receive regarding your project? What was the job title of the stakeholders you met with? How often did you meet, and what were the main points of the discussions?
- Identify evidence-based interventions and components.
- Provide 12 main overarching potential interventions. Describe how each intervention will be implemented. Include five examples from the literature for each proposed intervention demonstrating favorable outcomes in relation to a similar project problem. Include the sources in your literature matrix.
- Provide your educational intervention. Every project includes a staff educational component. Otherwise, the staff at the project site would not understand your project. However, staff education cannot be the main intervention. Describe the educational intervention and the intended audience. How does the educational intervention support your main interventions?
- Identify the comparisons.
- Identify the comparison for the intervention, which is likely the standard treatment or usual care or current state (the C in your PICOT question). You will be stating the desired state of care versus the current state of care. Remember, this is not research; therefore, as a quality improvement project, all participants will be a part of the DNP project. In other words, there is no control group used for comparison in the DNP projects.
- Identify the desirable outcomes.
- Identify the desirable project outcomes you want to achieve with the project intervention. Are the outcomes measurable? State how the outcomes will be measured. Describe the potential impact of the project implementation.
- Describe the learners role in the project.
- This project is for you to lead and manage. Describe how you will accomplish this with your preceptor as a project guide. What will your role be during project implementation?
- Formulate a project PICOT question.
- Construct a PICOT question in the correct format (PICOT), including all the components. Include the PICOT question with each letter defined in a properly formatted paragraph.
- The time included in the PICOT question refers to the length of time of the actual implementation of the main intervention(s). The time provided in the PICOT does not include pre- or post-implementation data collection or staff education. Typically, interventions are implemented from 810 weeks. The minimum time for implementation is eight weeks.
- Create a list of specific terms and definitions.
- Provide a list of the specific terms and definitions associated with the practicum project so the reader is clear about the definitions. Include abbreviations. Place the list as an APA-formatted appendix.
- Compose an evidence matrix table.
- Provide an evidence matrix table as an APA-formatted appendix. Evidence tables are used to organize the literature that supports your project. Each reference is recorded on a row of the matrix table and labeled with one or more tags. The tag refers to the area of the report where the source is relevant. Please ensure there is content in every column for each row. The notes section needs to contain some content. However, the detail of the notes is determined by the learner. Use the insert table feature in Word to make an evidence matrix table like below.
ReferenceTag
(Practice problem, intervention, model or framework outcomes, and (or) other)
Notes
(Research question, methodology, analysis, results, conclusions, implications for future research, implications for future practice)
- Provide CITI Transcript.
- Complete the CITI training.
- Include a screenshot of your transcript (not certificate of completion) as an embedded object in an APA formatted appendix.
- Create a clear, well-organized, succinct, professionally written submission that uses an appropriate tone and is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
- Utilize mentor feedback from the previous draft or attempt.
- Apply APA style and formatting to scholarly writing.
Additional Requirements
Your assessment should also meet the following requirements:
- Length: Your report should be 510 pages in length, excluding the title page, references page, and appendices.
- References: APA-formatted citations and references no more than five years old unless seminal work.
- APA format: Use the to help you in writing and formatting your summary. Be sure to include:
- A title page and references page.
- An abstract and running head are not required.
- Appropriate section headings.
- Appendices.
- Additional information: Use the following section headings to format the body of your paper to ensure thorough content coverage and flow.
- Project Problem and Relevant Evidence.
- The Project Site.
- Project Support at the Project Site.
- Proposed Interventions.
- Comparisons.
- Desirable Outcomes.
- Learners Role for the Project.
- Project Question.
- Nomenclature: Please save the document you are submitting for grading using the following format.
- Last name, First name Assessment 3 Attempt #
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 2: Describe a gap in practice, an evidence based intervention, and a desired outcome appropriate for a practicum project.
- Identify the project problem and relevant evidence.
- Define the project site.
- Describe the support for your project at the project site.
- Identify 12 evidence-based interventions and one educational intervention that are fully supported with evidence from the literature.
- Identify the comparisons.
- Identify the desirable outcomes.
- Describe the learners role for the project.
- Formulate a project PICOT question, with all components addressed.
- Create a list of specific terms and definitions.
- Compose an evidence matrix table that includes all resources referenced for the DNP project.
- Competency 4: Complete CITI training.
- Provide a screenshot of the CITI training transcript as an appendix.
- Competency 5: Write in accordance with the academic and professional requirements of the discipline, ensuring appropriate structure, grammar, usage, and style.
- Use required headings and meet body of paper page requirements.
- Communicate clearly and concisely in a form and style appropriate for the audience and for the substance, purpose, and context of the message being conveyed.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
My transcript report. Also uploaded picture.
COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTIONAL TRAINING INITIATIVE (CITI PROGRAM)
COMPLETION REPORT – PART 2 OF 2
COURSEWORK TRANSCRIPT**
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Scores on this Transcript Report (Part 2) reflect the most current quiz completions, including quizzes on optional (supplemental) elements of
the course. The Requirements Report (Part 1) lists the reported scores at the time all requirements for the course were met.
Name: A
Institution Affiliation: Capella University (ID: 454)
Institution Email:
Curriculum Group: Human Research
Course Learner Group: Learners
Stage: Stage 1 – Basic Course
Record ID:
Current Score**: 98
REQUIRED, ELECTIVE, AND SUPPLEMENTAL MODULES MOST RECENT SCORE
History and Ethical Principles – SBE (ID: 490) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Defining Research with Human Subjects – SBE (ID: 491) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
The Federal Regulations – SBE (ID: 502) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Belmont Report and Its Principles (ID: 1127) 05-Feb-2026 3/3 (100%)
Assessing Risk – SBE (ID: 503) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Informed Consent – SBE (ID: 504) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Privacy and Confidentiality – SBE (ID: 505) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Internet-Based Research – SBE (ID: 510) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
CAPELLA UNIVERSITY (ID: 529) 05-Feb-2026 9/10 (90%)
Conflicts of Interest in Human Subjects Research (ID: 17464) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
Cultural Competence in Research (ID: 15166) 05-Feb-2026 5/5 (100%)
For this Report to be valid, the learner identified above must have had a valid affiliation with the CITI Program subscribing institution