Assess the contribution of your intervention to patient or family satisfaction and quality of life.

Explain how your intervention enhances the patient, family, or group experience.

Describe your use of evidence and peer-reviewed literature to plan and implement your project.

Explain how the principles of evidence-based practice informed this aspect of your project.

Assess the degree to which you successfully leveraged health care technology in your capstone project to improve outcomes or communication with the patient, family, or group.

Identify opportunities to improve health care technology use in future practice.

Explain how health policy influenced the planning and implementation of your capstone project, as well as any contributions your project made to policy development.

Note specific observations related to the baccalaureate-prepared nurse’s role in policy implementation and development.

Explain whether your project outcomes matched your initial predictions.

Discuss the aspects of the project that met, exceeded, or fell short of your expectations.

Discuss whether your intervention can, or will be, adopted as a best practice.

Describe the generalizability of your intervention outside this particular setting. Assess your personal and professional growth throughout your capstone project and the RN-to-BSN program.

Address your provision of ethical care and demonstration of professional standards.

Identify specific growth areas of which you are most proud or in which you have taken particular satisfaction.

Competency 2: Make clinical and operational decisions based upon the best available evidence.

Describe ones use of evidence and peer-reviewed literature to plan and implement a capstone project.

Competency 3: Transform processes to improve quality, enhance patient safety, and reduce the cost of care.

Explain whether your project outcomes matched one’s initial predictions and document the practicum hours spent with these individuals or group 

Competency 4: Apply health information and patient care technology to improve patient and systems outcomes.

Assess the degree to which one successfully leveraged health care technology in a capstone project to improve outcomes or communication with a patient, family, or group.

Competency 5: Analyze the impact of health policy on quality and cost of care.

Explain how health policy influenced the planning and implementation of ones project, as well as any contributions the project made to policy development.

Competency 7: Implement patient-centered care to improve quality of care and the patient experience.

Assess the contribution of an intervention project to patient, family, or group satisfaction and quality of life.

Competency 8: Integrate professional standards and values into practice.

Assess ones personal and professional growth throughout a project and the RN-to-BSN program.