1. DNP Project Defense Presentation
Diane Whitehead, Edd, dnp, rn, anef

2. INITIAL PLANNING 20-30 minutes Capstone chair and 2nd committee member
Make sure to spell and grammar check slides
Use same font and background

3. INITIAL PLANNING May use graphics pertinent to topic
Professional appearance important
Short bullets or sentences
Identify if proposal defense or final defense

4. THANK YOU Introduce self Thank each faculty member by name
Chair Dr.XXX
2nd committee member Dr. XXX
URR Dr. XXX
Program coordinator Dr. XXX

5. INTRODUCTION
Briefly introduce main concept

6. PROBLEM
General problem
Specific problem to your project

7. PURPOSE
Focus of this project
What outcome(s) were you seeking?

8. SIGNIFICANCE Significance to nursing practice
Significance to social change
Significance to DNP Essentials

9. PROJECT QUESTION(S) The project question was:
The project questions were:

10. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Name of theory or framework
Theory or framework date developed and author
Brief summary of theory or framework and key tenets
Relationship of project to this theory or framework

11. ROLES
Role of the DNP student
Role of the project team (if applicable)

12. SOURCES OF EVIDENCE Review of scholarly evidence Search engines
Keywords
Grading of evidence
Analysis and synthesis

13. NATURE OF THE PROJECT (you may need more than one slide for this topic)
Method/Design
Participants
Protection of human subjects

14. NATURE OF THE PROJECT (you may need more than one slide for this topic)
Collection of evidence
Instruments or other data collection source(s)
Other materials developed

15. NATURE OF THE PROJECT Implementation Evaluation
Findings and implications
Recommendations

16. NATURE OF THE PROJECT
Contribution of the doctoral team (if applicable)
Strengths and limitations of the project
Plans for dissemination

17. NATURE OF THE PROJECT
Analysis of self
Summary

18. CLOSING REMARKS Thank you Dr. XXX and Dr. XXX
This concludes my final project defense presentation. I would now like to invite your questions.