DNP student projects

Real-world healthcare improvements

Our DNP program empowers students to lead real-world healthcare improvements through a project. By applying evidence-based solutions, DNP students directly impact patient care, optimize systems, or implement new policies. Our students are passionate about making a difference in healthcare, exploring DNP projects is a key step toward becoming a nursing leader.

Learn more about the exciting projects our DNP students are leading! Please check back as we continue to add our students' projects.

Heather Ward

Parkview Health

This project aims to examine primary care providers’ perspectives regarding barriers and facilitators to implementing a produce prescription program to address food insecurity and diet-related chronic illness in rural Whitley County.

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Candice Lowery

Eskenazi Health

High nursing turnover remains a challenge in healthcare, often driven by normalized uncivil behaviors in the workplace. This project aims to raise awareness about the comprehensive impact of incivility within healthcare settings.

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Joy Joyner Pearson

Parkview Health

This project aims to expand current orientation processes for medical assistants onboarding to ambulatory clinics, focusing on medication administration, patient safety, and accurate lab collection to decrease outpatient medication and lab errors.

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Ashley Hums

IU Health Simon Cancer Center

This project aims to identify ways to decrease the number of emergency room visits for oncology patients seeking symptom management, as oncology patients can be exposed to dangerous illnesses and other hazards due to frequent ER visits.

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Jessica Marshall

IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital

This project aims to evaluate if the Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression tool, which had only been studied in inpatient psychiatric settings, is effective in assessing the risk of workplace violence against nurses who provide care to the inpatient acute adult population.

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