CAPSTONE Project Guidance

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Specializes in Cardiac, Neuro, Critical.

Hello Nurses.

I am a critical care cardiac nurse in Florida. I am in my final course, Capstone, and having a heck of a time. This course requires you create a PowerPoint presentation of an entire Continuing Education Credit course, all by yourself with no examples of work. I am not looking for something to copy. I have my topic and content; however, I am looking for an idea as to what they are expecting. I am deathly afraid to submit something that doesn't have all they want... which they have not really provided solid guidelines.

I have no idea how many slides, content requirements or anything else at this point. Never thought the absolute last weeks of class for my BSN would be my problem.

Any guidance at this point would be greatly appreciated. Wish me luck. :no:

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Specializes in Pain, critical care, administration, med.

My guess would be that the presentation is as long to cover your objectives. Any CE course has objectives. I would follow the rules of a PPT presentation make sure you don't stuff each slide. Do you have to present or just submit your PPT?

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I believe you are over thinking this assignment. The rubric for week 3 gives you step by step example... Just re-read the rubric. The evaluation portion is a little confusing but think of it as that little slip that is given at the end of any educational class that you ever attended. It ask specific question about the speaker, content, delivery of the information etc... All you of do is to create one of those or find a template on the Internet. It just evaluate your overall presentation and base on trends tell you areas that needs improvement. Don't psych yourself out u will be ok.

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Hi brookeycookie,

I sent you a PM the other day regarding this assignment; I hope it helped you. The person who wrote the first post above mentioned you could make your presentation as long as you want as long as you meet your objectives, but this is not the case.....at least when I took the class a few weeks ago. The instructions tell you that it should be 12-15 slides in length, and my AC was strict about this. Longer is not better. Someone in my class made 22 slides and she was told to reduce the number to comply with the instructions. Don't forget you need a title slide as well as reference slides. I put 3 references on each slide for a total of 3 slides to contain the 9 required. (And, BTW, the instructions say that you cannot have >9 references for this assignment). So, you could have 8-11 slides with content and you would be in compliance w/ the instructions. Some people in my class put all 9 on one slide, but that meant that the font had to be very small. Since this is a PP presentation, the font should be keep larger. There is a PP example in the Resources sections in Blackboard to show you font size and colors.

You do not put the evaluation items such as the pre and post tests in the PP; they go in the evaluation APA paper along with your cost analysis, handouts if you have any, etc. You have to have an evaluation for the presenter and another for the content itself. The person above wrote that you could use a template for the presentation evaluation from the internet. My AC told us specifically that we were not allowed to use forms from the internet, any educational session we actually attended, or even from our own work place; they had to be original and specifically our own creation. Look in your research text (Burns and Grove) to remind you what a Likert scale is and you could create yours using something like that, for example. PM me again, if you have any other questions.

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Specializes in ICU.

I just took this class last month. My capstone project:

Slide 1: Title slide

Slides 2-11: Content slides

Slides 12-15: References (I forget how many were required, but I had 11 which was more than was required.)

I had an image on every content slide with the url for that image just below it.

In the notes section of each content slide were my speaker notes.

I got a 100. Follow the rubric to the letter and you'll likely do well.

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Specializes in Cardiac, Neuro, Critical.

Scarlet and Bees,

Thank you so much!

I have worked four of the last five days and have been very stressed over this class. Thank you so much for being so kind as to lend some advice about this.

I will let you both know how I do and must say, I am proud to be held in esteem with some wonderful alumni!

Have a wonderful evening! :-)

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