Research Project Final Presentation: Instructions
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is for you to provide an overview of your research experience and knowledge gained through the research project course.
Instructions: For additional clarity, please review the rubric for the project as well. The final PPT should include all of the major subheadings from your paper. Any issues noted during grading should be addressed. Sections to include area as follows
- Title Slide: Project title, name, university, date.
- Introduction: Introduce your topic, purpose of your project, and goals for your presentation: i.e., what do you want the audience to learn (1 Slide).
- Background and Significance: Provide background information on your topic and review its significance to those impacted. Because some of you have selected research topics outside of nursing, please discuss how the research will benefit those impacted as well as the community and/or society as a whole as a result of the research being conducted. (2-4 Slides).
- Critique Your Research Project: Include a review of why it is pertinent to critique research (1 Slide).
- Identification of the enablers, barriers, and strategies for the development and implementation of the research and/or scholarly project, indicating possible solutions for the barriers (1 Slide).
- Discussion of the outcomes expected from this project (e.g. implications for future research, scholarship, and evidence-based practice) (1 Slide).
- Evaluation of the overall value and contributions this research or scholarly project will make to consumers, nursing and other health professionals, administrators, and policy makers. (1 Slide).
- Role of Advanced Practice Nurses: Evaluate the role of advance practice nurses in relation to the research project. Consider personal objectives achieved related to advancement of research knowledge and competencies. If you worked on a non-nursing related project, discuss the value of the research process to advanced practice nursing. (1-2 Slides).
- Reflection: This section should include your reflections regarding your research experience this semester. Include your views on the challenges that you faced and the learning that you experienced (1 Slide).
- Conclusion: This should include a summary of your entire paper. (1 Slide).
- Quality of the Presentation: Follow rules for proper PPT slide development. Use a consistent theme, background, and colors. Do not overload each slide with text. This is why you are speaking. Presentation should be visually appealing with limited text on each slide. Consider the 7 x 7 rule: no more than 7 lines of text with no more than 7 words on each line.
- Voice Quality and Professionalism: Your audio should be loud enough to hear and you should practice your speech. Avoid the use of filler such as “um” or “like.”
- Length: The PPT should be a MINIMUM of 10 content slides and a MAXIMUM of 15 content slides (not including title and reference slides). Failure to meet this minimum length requirement will result in the loss of points.
- Sources: You should use a MINIMUM of five (5) scholarly peer-reviewed sources. These sources should be published within the last five (5) years. Sources should be properly formatted in a reference list.