3 receive Edwardson Award for Excellence in a DNP Scholarly Project

Doctor of Nursing Practice students Meg Edgerton, Mohsin Ikram and Megan Daman were named recipients of the Sandra R. Edwardson Award for Excellence in a Doctor of Nursing Practice Scholarly Project.

The award, named for the school’s first DNP program director and former dean, is given to students who demonstrate leadership in an area of nursing practice and whose DNP project exemplifies the ideals of DNP scholarship.

Edgerton is a student in the health innovation and leadership specialty. Her project is Optimizing Blood Culture Collection Practice through a Nurse-Driven Algorithm to Reduce CLABSI on an Adult Inpatient Blood and Marrow Transplant Unit.

Ikram is a student in the post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program. His project is Quality Improvement Initiative: Integrating Remote Patient Monitoring to Optimize Hypertension Management in Elderly living in Assisted Living Facilities.

Daman is a student in the post-master’s Doctor of Nursing Practice program. Her project is Group Telehealth for Veteran Blood Pressure Management.

The DNP Scholarly Project represents a synthesis of a student’s work in the DNP program by addressing a complex practice or clinical problem within the student’s field of expertise. Students propose an evidence-based change to address that problem for a significant population, use doctoral-level leadership skills to implement and evaluate the efficacy of the practice change, and evaluate the outcomes of the change.