P – Professionalism through her ability to recognize the emerging role of the DNP-prepared nurse & understand the value and need in designing a population health project that brings EBP to address the high-priority health need noted in her community’s older adult population.

R – Respect demonstrated through the building of relationships with key community organizations and leaders who would both understand the value of and support the proposed population health project

I – Integrity holds herself to a higher level of accountability than is even required by the DNP assignment evaluation performance criteria.

C – Caring by being moved by and becoming passionate about the identification of high-priority health needs for her community and making a move to design a population-based health project to address this need.

E- Engagement demonstrated through high-level networking and activities with local government, citizen-based civic, and non-profit organizations in her community to establish relationships essential for the implementation of the proposed population health project.