Students should enter a completed electronic Immersion Plan in their e-portfolio under the “Immersion” tab by Friday of finals week the spring semester prior to the start of their immersion experiences.
- The student will complete all the information on the electronic form and submit to their faculty advisor.
- The faculty advisor reviews and approves the electronic draft immersion plan via electronic signature and returns to the student.
- The student sends one electronic copy of the draft plan to the DNP Subcommittee Chair by Friday of final examination week in the semester prior to the immersion experience.
- The student also submits a copy to DNPforms@osu.edu, which is essential to begin the official OSU CON immersion preceptor and site verification process.
- The student’s advisor reviews the proposed plans for each student’s immersion If any recommendations for refinement to the proposed immersion plan are determined, the Chair of the DNP Subcommittee provides both the faculty advisor and student with a written summary. Students have two weeks in which to complete the amendments and enter them into the online immersion format. The DNP Subcommittee meets again to review the amended plans and provide additional feedback. When the Subcommittee approves the student’s plan, the Chair of the DNP Subcommittee electronically submits approval and an email notice is sent to the student.
- Immersion plans may undergo substantive development as the experience Substantive changes should be incorporated into the Immersion Plan, reviewed and approved by the faculty advisor and sent for the DNP Subcommittee’s review and approval. Immersion plans for each semester must be finalized prior to the first day of the semester if amendments have been made.
- The Immersion plan should assure that students with an indirect patient care focus demonstrate the following abilities at the end of the experience:
- Define actual and emerging problems.
- Conduct comprehensive organizational, systems, and/or community assessments to identify health or system needs.
- Design aggregate level health interventions.
- Demonstrate an expert level of understanding of nursing and related biological, behavioral and other related sciences.
- Create effective partnerships with diverse stakeholders for achieving health-related organizational or public policy goals.
- Design patient-centered or population-focused care delivery systems or policy level delivery models.