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May 20, 2026
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NRSE 4595 - Professional Nursing Practice Capstone
Offers a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to nursing practice through the development and execution of an experiential learning project aimed at improving health outcomes. Students critically analyze the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion; ethics; social responsibility; and social determinants of health on healthcare delivery. Throughout the course, the student demonstrates engagement with clients and stakeholders using principles of professionalism, leadership, and effective communication.
Requisites: NRSE 4515, NRSE 4525, NRSE 4535, NRSE 4545, NRSE 4555, NRSE 4565, NRSE 4575, NRSE 4585 and Completion and Approval of Clinical Affiliation Agreement and Clinical On-boarding. WARNING: No credit if NRSE 4600
Credit Hours: 5
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 lecture, 1.0 clinical
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to employ intellectual curiosity, evidence-based clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, and self-reflection in the development and implementation of an experiential learning project focused on improving health outcomes.
- Students will be able to apply quality improvement strategies in patient-centered care.
- Students will be able to demonstrate principles of professionalism, advocacy, leadership, and effective therapeutic communication in developing and maintaining caring, person-centered relationships.
- Students will be able to coordinate care through identification of needs and resources, collaboration and communication with stakeholders, delegation, and promotion of continuity of care.
- Students will be able to optimize systemic effectiveness through application and innovation and evidence-based practice.
- Students will be able to identify and articulate, knowledge, values, and attitudes developed throughout the experiential learning process, to reflect on advocacy for consumers and its relationship to the nursing profession.
- Students will be able to analyze the ways in which multiple factors such as diversity, ethics, and social determinants of health affect accessibility, equity, affordability, and accountability in healthcare services.
- Students will be able to engage with patients, stakeholders, and interdisciplinary collaborators to impact patient outcomes.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an ethical comportment, legal compliance, and participatory approach to patient-centered nursing care and improvement of health outcomes.
- Students will be able to utilize evidence-based clinical reasoning and clinical judgment to deliver person-centered care across the lifespan.
- Students will be able to identify the impact of internal and external factors and social determinants of health on the delivery of healthcare to individuals, families, and the community.
- Students will be able to professionally communicate scholarly findings using various communication tools.
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