| Course | NURS 4300 BSN Capstone |
|---|---|
| Week | Week 10 |
| Paper type | Staff presentation slide deck |
| Length | About 990 words across 12 slides with speaker notes |
| Format | Slide deck with speaker notes, APA 7 |
| School | Walden University |
| Program | Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) |
| Updated | October 2026 |
Free sample paper for NURS 4300 Week 10
Let Them Sleep: A Protected Window for Our Older Patients
Student Name
College of Nursing, Walden University
NURS 4300: BSN Capstone
Instructor Name
Month Day, Year
Slide 1: Let Them Sleep
A protected sleep window for our older patients
Proposal for a trial on the east wing
Presenter name, RN, night shift
Speaker notes: Thanks for giving me a few minutes. I work nights here like most of you, and this is a proposal for something we could try on our own wing. It is not a new policy handed down. It is a trial, and I need your help to design it.
Slide 2: The Problem in One Sentence
Our older patients get woken over and over between midnight and five, and most of it is routine, not urgent.
Speaker notes: You all know this pattern. Vitals near midnight, a two o'clock dose, the lab before four, a bath at five so days can start clean. None of us chose this schedule. It is just how the night has always run.
Slide 3: A Typical Night Now
2300 settled
0000 vitals (dot)
0200 scheduled med (dot)
0330 blood draw (dot)
0500 bath and linen change (dot)
Plus alarms, pumps and a roommate's call light
Speaker notes: Each dot on the timeline is a time we wake her. Look at the gaps between dots: none of them is long enough for a full, unbroken stretch of sleep. That is what we are trying to change.
Slide 4: The Night We Are Proposing
2200 to 2300: first planned round
0000 to 0500: protected window, calls and clinical needs only
0500 to 0600: second planned round
Nonurgent labs drawn at 0530 or later
Speaker notes: Same care, gathered into two rounds. Between midnight and five we still answer every call light and every alarm, and anything the patient clinically needs happens on time. What moves is the routine stuff that can wait an hour or two.
Slide 5: What the Evidence Says
Hospital staff are one of the main reasons patients wake at night
When units cut routine nighttime interruptions, patients sleep better
The unit that did best was the one where nurses designed the change
Speaker notes: Three findings. In a big Dutch study of ward patients, people lost about an hour and twenty minutes of sleep compared with home, and more than a third said staff woke them (Wesselius et al., 2018). Intensive care units that reduced noise, light and routine disturbances saw sleep improve (Patel et al., 2014). And on general medicine units in Chicago, nighttime room entries fell by 44% on the unit where nurses were coached and ran it through their own huddles (Arora et al., 2019). That last one is why I am here asking you, not telling you.
Slide 6: What Changes for Nurses
Group assessments and routine vitals into the two rounds
Check the eligibility list at huddle
Between rounds: enter for calls, alarms and clinical need
Dim lights and move conversations away from doors
Speaker notes: For us, the big change is planning the night around two rounds instead of doing things as they come due. The eligibility list at huddle tells you who is in the window. If something about your patient worries you, you do not need permission to check.
Slide 7: What Changes for Nursing Assistants
Repositioning and continence care move into the rounds
New assignment sheet pairs you with your nurses' round times
Offer earplugs and eye masks at the first round
Speaker notes: Our assistants would do repositioning and continence care during the rounds instead of on their own schedule. The new assignment sheet lines you up with your nurses so the rounds go quickly. Patients at high risk of pressure injury stay on two-hour turns.
Slide 8: What Changes for Phlebotomy and Providers
Nonurgent morning labs for window patients drawn at 0530 or later
Results still back before rounds
Providers confirm who is eligible and approve the vital sign timing
Speaker notes: This part needs other people's agreement, and I am working on it with the manager, the lab and the medical director. Urgent labs do not move. Only routine morning draws for patients in the window.
Slide 9: Who Stays on the Usual Schedule
New admissions or transfers from a higher level of care in the last 24 hours
Vitals ordered more often than every four hours
Titrated drips, insulin infusions, transfusions
Rising early warning score
Anyone the team, patient or family is worried about
Speaker notes: This is the slide that matters most to me. The window never outranks a clinical need. Any of us can take a patient out of the window at any time, for any reason, and we write it in the plan of care. If you are uneasy, check.
Slide 10: How We Will Know It Worked
Patients rate their sleep each morning with a short questionnaire
We check that the rounds actually happened
We count overnight rapid responses and transfers, and review every one
Speaker notes: Three things. First, how patients say they slept, using a five-item questionnaire that has been tested against sleep studies (Richards et al., 2000). Second, whether we really did the rounds, from documentation times. Third, safety: every rapid response or transfer from the wing overnight gets looked at within a week. We decided in advance what would make us stop.
Slide 11: What I Am Asking
Three nurses and two assistants to help design the workflow
Your objections, especially the ones I have not heard yet
Speaker notes: Two asks. I need a few volunteers from nights to shape the workflow sheet, because you know where it will break. And I want your objections. If there is a reason this will not work at three in the morning, I would much rather hear it now than in week two of the trial.
Slide 12: References
Arora et al., 2019
Patel et al., 2014
Richards et al., 2000
Wesselius et al., 2018
Speaker notes: Full references are on the handout and in the list below. If you read only one, read the Chicago study, because it shows what nurses on a medical unit were able to do.
References
Arora, V. M., Machado, N., Anderson, S. L., Desai, N., Marsack, W., Blossomgame, S., Tuvilleja, A., Ramos, J., Francisco, M. A., LaFond, C., Leung, E. K., Valencia, A., Martin, S. K., Meltzer, D. O., Farnan, J. M., Balachandran, J., Knutson, K. L., & Mokhlesi, B. (2019). Effectiveness of SIESTA on objective and subjective metrics of nighttime hospital sleep disruptors. Journal of Hospital Medicine, 14(1), 38-41. https://doi.org/10.12788/jhm.3091
Patel, J., Baldwin, J., Bunting, P., & Laha, S. (2014). The effect of a multicomponent multidisciplinary bundle of interventions on sleep and delirium in medical and surgical intensive care patients. Anaesthesia, 69(6), 540-549. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.12638
Richards, K. C., O'Sullivan, P. S., & Phillips, R. L. (2000). Measurement of sleep in critically ill patients. Journal of Nursing Measurement, 8(2), 131-144. https://doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.8.2.131
Wesselius, H. M., van den Ende, E. S., Alsma, J., ter Maaten, J. C., Schuit, S. C. E., Stassen, P. M., de Vries, O. J., Kaasjager, K. H. A. H., Haak, H. R., van Doormaal, F. F., Hoogerwerf, J. J., Terwee, C. B., van de Ven, P. M., Bosch, F. H., van Someren, E. J. W., & Nanayakkara, P. W. B. (2018). Quality and quantity of sleep and factors associated with sleep disturbance in hospitalized patients. JAMA Internal Medicine, 178(9), 1201-1208. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.2669
NURS 4300 Week 10 instructions, in plain terms
NURS 4300 Week 10 puts the capstone before the staff whose nights it would change. You present the problem, evidence, proposal, role changes, evaluation and an ask, designed for a specific audience. Faculty split credit between content and design. Cite sources on a references slide in APA 7. Slides should carry short points, with detail in speaker notes. The full evidence table usually belongs in the paper, not on a slide. The audience is often unit staff and leaders. NURS 4300 faculty want one idea per slide, detail parked in the speaker notes and an ask that requests a decision. Show what changes for each role.
How this NURS 4300 Week 10 example is built
Twelve slides with full speaker notes, plus a narrated recording when the program requires one. The opening slide names the problem in a sentence a tired colleague would recognize. A timeline graphic contrasts a typical night with the proposed one, interruptions marked as dots along a line and gathered into two rounds on the second version. Evidence occupies a single slide with three findings in plain words; citations live in the speaker notes and the closing reference slide. A slide per role shows what would change for nurses, nursing assistants and phlebotomy. The safety exceptions get their own slide. The evaluation slide shows three measures without statistical language. The closing slide asks for two things: volunteers for the trial wing and objections not yet heard.
Where the marks sit in the NURS 4300 Week 10 rubric
Presentation rubrics usually split credit between content and delivery design. Content rows check that problem, evidence, proposal and evaluation are all present and accurate; a deck that drops the evaluation to save time loses a full criterion. Audience adaptation is where capstone presentations often gain or lose most, since faculty want to see the project translated for colleagues rather than read aloud from the manuscript. The sample's timeline and role slides are aimed at that row. Slide design is judged on readability: text-heavy slides cost points, as do visuals with no clear purpose. Speaker notes or narration are scored where a recording is required. Scholarly support still counts, so the reference slide and in-note citations complete the marks.
Common NURS 4300 Week 10 mistakes, and how to avoid them
Presentations lose design credit when slides are crowded with text. Keep each slide to one idea. Another common gap is no clear ask. Request a decision, such as a trial. Writers also forget the audience, presenting to faculty instead of staff. Speak to night nurses and assistants. Avoid putting the evidence table on a slide. Show what changes for each role. Include who stays on the usual schedule. Close with how success will be measured. Writers also forget to answer the question staff will ask first, whether patients will be safe. Address it on a slide. Another frequent slip is references with missing details. Check them. Keep the timing within the limit.
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NURS 4300 Week 10 questions, answered
Who is the audience for a BSN capstone presentation?
The prompt names it, and it varies. Some programs ask for a presentation to faculty and classmates, others to unit colleagues or leadership. The sample targets night-shift peers, which shapes every slide toward their workflow. A leadership audience would want cost and feasibility earlier; a faculty audience would expect more evidence detail. Designing for the named audience is typically scored.
How much text belongs on each slide?
Less than most first drafts carry. The sample uses a headline sentence and a single visual per slide, with the fuller explanation in the speaker notes. Dense slides tempt a presenter to read them aloud, which rubrics tend to penalize under delivery. Where slides must stand alone without narration, a little more text is justified, and the prompt usually says so.
Should the presentation include the full evidence table?
Rarely. A table of nine studies is unreadable on a slide and loses a live audience. The sample distills the evidence to three plain findings on one slide and places the citations in notes and on a reference slide. If faculty want the table, it can appear as a backup slide after the ending or as a printed handout.
Where can I find a free NURS 4300 Week 10 sample paper?
The Let Them Sleep staff deck is printed here with all twelve slides, role-by-role changes, the evaluation and the ask.
What is the NURS 4300 Week 10 deck called?
Let Them Sleep, a twelve-slide deck for the unit's nurses, nursing assistants and partners.