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Discussion
Week 1 Important Aspects of Project Management
Collaboration Café
Reflect on projects that you have been involved in during your career or in everyday life. We
have all been involved in projects such as buying a house, renting an apartment,
remodeling, and so on. You may have participated in projects at work, such as workload
assessment, initiating an electronic health record or other informatics-related activities.
What do you feel is the most important aspect of project management to ensure a successful
project and why?
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Week 2 Informatics Nurse Specialist Professional Role Development
Collaboration Café
The role of the Informatics Nurse Specialist (INS) is ever changing. What roles have you
observed the INS play at your places of employment? As you develop in your role as an INS
and project manager, what competencies do you believe that you need to strengthen to
support your success in these roles?
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Week 3 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)
Collaboration Café
Determining organizational priorities and needs for projects will be important to project
success factors. How does equity and SDOH fit in with your project? Can you share a time
when you were part of a team that had balanced voices to impact SDOH and a time when the
voices were not representative?
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Week 4 Interprofessional Collaboration in Project Planning
Collaboration Café
Standard 10 of the Nursing Informatics Scope and Standards of Practice is collaboration. In
consideration of this, address each of the bullet points that follow as you consider
interprofessional collaboration as it relates to project planning:

2. •Briefly describe the key stakeholders with whom you are and will be collaborating to plan
your MSN project.?
•Discuss two communication and/or collaboration strategies you will use with
interprofessional partners during the planning phase.?
•Select one example from your practicum experiences that involved or will involve
interprofessional collaboration. Explain the collaboration that took place (if it has already
occurred), its purpose, and its impact on the project and on your learning. ?
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Week 5 RACI - Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed
Collaboration Café
As you reflect on highly functional teams that you have been a part of or led, who was
ultimately responsible for the work? Who was accountable for the work? Who were the
stakeholders or subject matter experts? Who did the team need to keep informed as the
work progressed? How will these role responsibilities be reflected in your project? Utilize
the chart provided to identify the “who-what-when-how” for your project. Submit your
chart and solicit feedback from your classmates. As you review your classmates' charts, you
may discover omissions from your own plan and can act upon those.
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Week 6 Budget
Collaboration Café
What are your operational impacts on the budget for your project? Some questions you may
want to explore include: Is there additional training needed for your project to be
implemented? Will supplemental employees be needed to back fill those employees in
training? Will employees incur overtime for your project to be implemented? Will there be
additional IT (Informational Technology) personnel that are hired temporarily to complete
the build for implementation?
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Week 7 Executive Summary
Collaboration Café
The purpose of an executive summary, in the context of project management, is to provide a
concise update of your project. Many executives prefer brief, bulleted information on key
points. Executive summaries, in this context, are used as a quick reference for the leader to
provide other internal updates within an organization.
Share with the group examples and tips you have found helpful from your mentor this week
in beginning to prepare your project executive summary.
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Week 8 Reflection
Collaboration Café
Reflect on the past 7 weeks and share your insights on the practice-ready skills that you

3. have developed thus far. Address each of the following prompts with your reflective post:
•How have the skills you developed in creating the planning phase project documents
helped to prepare you for practice in informatics?
•How did these skills help you to meet each of the course outcomes?
•Be sure to cite examples as they relate to practice readiness and course outcome
attainment, not merely a listing of assignments.
CO: 1 Synthesize knowledge, apply person-centered principles and concepts from nursing-
informatics and project management to develop project plans and teams. (PO 1)
CO: 2 Demonstrate effective leadership skills and advanced roles that promote successful
planning, management and evaluation of projects and teams. (POs 3, 5)
CO: 3 Incorporate the standards of practice for nursing informatics that exemplify
professional values and scholarship to support professional growth, leadership skills and
advance personal development. (POs 4, 5)
CO: 4 Contribute to the body of nursing informatics knowledge through participation in and
application of systematic utilization of evidence-based knowledge in creation of effective
project plans and teams. (PO 4)
Please note that all posts for Week 8 are due by the close of class on Saturday 11:59 pm MT.
Within the MSN Specialties Track, you will engage and dialog with classmates in
aCollaboration Café discussion assignment. The Collaboration Café is an interactive
assignment that encourages meaningful application of course concepts, discussion of nurse-
practice issues, and student leadership to prompt continued conversations in order to
facilitate achievement of course learning outcomes. In order for students to lead and
facilitate discussion within the collaboration café, course instructors will take a less active
role in daily posting, but will remain present to monitor the discussion for compliance and
to offer clarification.
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Week 1 Learning Agreement
Assignment
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help you continue with the project plan for the practicum
that occurred during the meeting with the mentor and professor during Week 1 and solidify
the plans for the practicum.
•Learning Agreement Guidelines and RubricLinks to an external site.
•Learning Agreement TemplateLinks to an external site.
•Learning Agreement ExemplarLinks to an external site.
Course Outcomes
This activity enables you to meet the following course outcome(s):
1.Synthesize knowledge, apply person-centered principles and concepts from nursing-
informatics and project management to develop project plans and teams. (PO 1)
Due Date
Sunday 11:59 p.m. MT at the end of Week 1
Total Points Possible
25 points

4. Assignment Overview
The project learning agreement must?demonstrate?the synthesis?and outcomes?of the
meeting.?The learning agreement?should clearly?define the measurable?objectives?that
you will achieve during?practice.?It?is the working document that?enables you to work
with the mentor to?define and?clarify the specific steps necessary to meet the practicum
goals.??The learning agreement template should be used to complete the assignment.? All
four course outcomes are to be addressed. For CO1, add a specific goal or goals along with
your plan(s) to address interprofessional collaboration within project teams. The learning
agreement template should be used to complete the assignment.
Assignment Instructions
•Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
•Create the assignment using Microsoft Word learning agreement template, integrating the
comments and suggestions from your professor and mentor.
•Project metrics that are measurable should be included along with due dates across the
project life cycle.
•Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence, and paragraph structure
are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual
(current edition).
Revision Process
If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit
your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within
that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:
•After receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit.
•In order to resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment.
Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission.
•Only content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first
submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and
writing style will not be re-graded.
•Points possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric
category (84%).
•Any revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade
is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you
have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not
earn a proficient rating.
•Within 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the
resubmitted work.
Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn
a proficient rating on the rubric:
•Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to
inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not
receive a proficient rating on the rubric.
•Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7
days of the original assignment grade being posted.

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Week 2 Scope and Charter
Assignment
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help you lay the groundwork for your project plan with the
help of mentors and professors. The mentor becomes a team member for the project that
you will manage. You will identify the stakeholders, project priority, how the measurable
goals will be met for a successful project, and who will receive the report of the results of
the project. The scope document describes the parameters of the project, including what
can and cannot be accomplished and the measurable objectives and outcome measures. The
project charter describes and defines the project. When the sponsor signs off on the project,
it becomes the document that authorizes the project.
Assignment Overview
You will develop the Project Scope and Charter for your project. Based on the information
from the mentor and professor, finalize and complete the project charter and scope
documents or statements. The project scope must be approved by your practicum
organization. Your mentor should help you obtain approval. Project approval must be
received prior to submitting the scope and charter documents. Templates are provided for
both documents on the assignment page.
Assignment Instructions
•Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
•Create the assignment using Microsoft Word using templates provided for both project
charter and scope documents.
•The Project Charter template is to be used; in addition to the problem statement,
overarching goal and objectives, this document includes budget information, project
approach, key stakeholders with roles, and their comments.
•The Scope document template is to be used and should include the problem statement,
overarching goal, measurable objectives, project justification, implementation strategy,
human and technical resources, measures of success, assumptions, and constraints. A
project sponsor’s signature/approval is required.
•Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence, and paragraph structure
are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual
(current edition).
•First person should not be used within this assignment.
Revision Process
If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit
your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within
that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:
•After receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit.
•In order to resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment.
Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission.
•Only content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first
submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and

6. writing style will not be re-graded.
•Points possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric
category (84%).
•Any revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade
is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you
have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not
earn a proficient rating.
•Within 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the
resubmitted work.
Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn
a proficient rating on the rubric:
•Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to
inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not
receive a proficient rating on the rubric.
•Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7
days of the original assignment grade being posted.
Assignment Criteria
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Week 4 ePortfolio Setup
Assignment
Purpose
As you progress through the informatics track practicum and concluding graduate
experience (CGE) courses, an ePortfolio tool will be used to document learning
accomplishments, professional growth, and practicum experiences. The purpose of this
assignment is to create the ePortfolio.
File maintenance, document naming, and document versioning are important skills for an
informatics professional. To assist in building this skill, adherence to the requirements for
this assignment is of great importance. Grading for this assignment is an “all or nothing”
meaning that each criteria needs to be met in its entirety to receive credit (please see the
rubric that follows for the inclusionary criteria and breakdown of point values). Utilizing
the rubric as a checklist is a great way to assure that you have addressed each criteria and
included all required documents.
Assignment Instructions
1.To complete this assignment, you will need to review the ePortfolio Guidelines and help
documents, accessible via the "ePortfolio" button, located on the Course Home Page.
2.This portion of the ePortfolio will be evaluated on inclusion of the following elements:
oCreation of the ePortfolio with a shareable link
oCreation of the following sections headers in the ePortfolio:
?Introduction-About Me
?Competency Development
?Assignments
?Reflections on Learning
?Practicum Documents

7. oCreation of introduction entry
3.Uploading of required documents.
oUpload your final version of each assignment noted, where a proficient score was earned
in each content category
oName your file as noted below prior to uploading into the ePortfolio.
?NR 541 Week 1 Assignment: Self-Assessment of the Competencies
?Name your file: NR 541 Self-Assessment of Competencies First Name Last Name. For
example: NR 541 Self-Assessment of Competencies Jane Doe
?NR 640B Week 2 Assignment: Scope and Charter
?Name your file: NR 640B Scope and Charter First Name Last Name. For example: NR640B
Scope and Charter Jane Doe
4.To submit your ePortfolio link, use the Submit Assignment button and select the Text
Entry tab. Cut and paste the link to your ePortfolio. Make sure you click the Submit
Assignment button to complete the submission.
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Week 6 Gantt Chart and Risk Registry
Assignment
Purpose
The process of project management has five phases, 1) design/initiation which you just
completed, 2) finalizing your plan before implementation which you will do now, 3)
implementation, 4) monitor and control and finally, 5) evaluation and lessons learned as
well as knowledge transfer. This assignment will help you develop project timelines using a
Gantt chart and determine who is ultimately responsible for task completion as well as risks
to the project for which you will identify and then monitor.
Assignment Overview
In this?assignment, you will define and document?the project’s tasks?and project’s
deliverables?and their relationships to each. Consider the components that would be
included in a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) exercise as you construct your Gantt Chart
and Risk Registry.
You will?develop?project?timelines?using a?Gantt chart?for key deliverables which may be
created?in excel.??The Gantt chart, named after Henry Gantt, clearly shows the start and
completion dates for all major?project activities and subtasks.?The Gantt chart is
straightforward, easy to understand,?and simple to change. It?provides?a snapshot of the
project, and one can?immediately?identify?task durations and distinguish tasks dependent
upon other tasks to be completed before they are started. Understanding?all?dependencies
is critical?for the project manager who is responsible for time, budgets, and resource
allocation. Microsoft Excel includes several templates that you may choose from as well as
instructions for their use.
Another key tool you will develop for this assignment is called?the?Risk Registry. Risk
management will be accomplished?using?a?Risk Registry?template.?Using?the?Risk
Registry?is a way to?identify, document and manage?all?the risks associated with a project.
The chart details?provide?a straightforward way?to scan for?level of?risk, status, potential
responses,?who?is responsible for?the risk in addition to the project manager?or other

8. details needed to manage the risk. This is?a great way?to keep everyone informed when this
document is presented at the weekly team meetings and in communication with all
stakeholders.?
Assignment Instructions
•Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
•Create the assignment using Microsoft Word using template provided for the Risk Registry.
•Create your Gantt chart in Excel (other software may be used). The Gantt chart should be
developed and reviewed/revised with your mentor prior to submission.
•Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence, and paragraph structure
are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual
(current edition).
•First person should not be used within this assignment.
Revision Process
If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit
your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within
that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:
After receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit.
•In order to resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment.
Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission.
•Only content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first
submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and
writing style will not be re-graded.
•Points possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric
category (84%).
•Any revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade
is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you
have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not
earn a proficient rating.
•Within 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the
resubmitted work.
Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn
a proficient rating on the rubric:
•Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to
inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not
receive a proficient rating on the rubric.
•Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7
days of the original assignment grade being posted.
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Week 7 Executive Summary
Assignment
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to provide a concise overview of key project updates to
senior executives. You have developed many practice-ready skills during the planning phase

9. of your practicum. Learning how to write an executive summary will be important to your
future practice. Informatics nurses frequently develop executive summaries as project
updates for senior leaders. As you are aware, the process of project management has five
phases, 1) design/initiation which you just completed, 2) finalizing your plan before
implementation which you will do now, 3) implementation, 4) monitor and control and
finally, 5) evaluation and lessons learned as well as knowledge transfer.
You will demonstrate the ability to communicate at the executive level through
development of an Executive Summary for your project. The Executive Summary is directed
to the project Sponsor/Senior leaders and should provide a high-level overview of the
project and your recommendations. There are many templates that you can use for this type
of deliverable. A sample is included based on the Motorola (2021) phone project exemplar
you have been following this session.
•
Total Points Possible
160 points
Assignment Overview
The executive summary is designed to provide a quick concise overview of your?project at
the end of the planning phase.??The executive summary should provide a status update on
the project and serve as an easy reference for executive questions. Below are the key items
that you will include in the Executive summary provided.
•Complete Project Executive Summary using the template provided.
•Content should be addressed to speak to Senior Leadership. Some examples include: CNO,
CNIO, COO, Vice President, Senior Director.
•Follow the assignment instructions and rubric expectations described below to present
each of the following:
oProject Objective
oTarget Audience for implementation
oOverview of competition
oRisk Opportunity
oConclusions and Recommendations for planning phase of the project addressing senior
leadership update needs
Assignment Instructions
•Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
•Create the assignment using Microsoft Word Executive Summary template.
•Rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, sentence, and paragraph structure
are followed and consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA Manual
(current edition).
•First person should not be used within this assignment.
Revision Process
If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit
your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within
that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:
oAfter receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit.

10. oIn order to resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment.
Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission.
oOnly content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first
submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and
writing style will not be re-graded.
oPoints possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric
category (84%).
oAny revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade
is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you
have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not
earn a proficient rating.
oWithin 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the
resubmitted work.
Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn
a proficient rating on the rubric:
•Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to
inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not
receive a proficient rating on the rubric.
•Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7
days of the original assignment grade being posted.
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Week 7 Learning Agreement
Assignment
Purpose
This assignment is designed to help you continue with the project plan for the practicum
that occurred during the meeting with the mentor and professor in Week 1 and update
outcomes for the practicum. The update to this learning agreement provides time for
reflection on your progress to achieve the goals that you set forth to meet the course
outcomes.
•Learning Agreement Guidelines and RubricLinks to an external site.
Course Outcomes
This activity enables you to meet the following course outcome(s):
1.Synthesize knowledge, apply person-centered principles and concepts from nursing-
informatics and project management to develop project plans and teams. (PO 1)
25 points
Assignment Overview
The project learning agreement must?demonstrate?the synthesis?and outcomes?of the
meeting.?The learning agreement?should clearly?define the measurable?objectives?that
you will achieve during?practice.?It?is the working document that?enables you to work
with the mentor to?define and?clarify the specific steps necessary to meet the practicum
goals.??The learning agreement template should be used to complete the assignment.? All
four course outcomes are to be addressed. For CO1, add a specific goal or goals along with
your plan(s) to address interprofessional collaboration within project teams.

11. Assignment Instructions
•Abide by the Chamberlain College of Nursing Academic Integrity Policy.
•Update your Learning Agreement using Learning Agreement Template (Microsoft Word)
you started in Week 1.
•Integrate the comments and suggestions from your professor and mentor.
•Include project metrics that are measurable along with due dates across the project life
cycle.
•Follow the rules of grammar, spelling, word usage, punctuation, and sentence and
paragraph structure to be consistent with formal, scholarly writing as noted in the APA
Manual (current edition).
Revision Process
If you do not receive at least a proficient rating in any content category, you can re-submit
your assignment with revision to that content category to improve the points earned within
that specific section. Please note the following guidelines:
•After receiving your assignment grade, you have one opportunity to resubmit.
•In order to resubmit, your initial submission must have been a complete assignment.
Rough drafts will not be graded or allowed for resubmission.
•Only content sections that did not receive at least a proficient rating with the first
submission may be revised to earn a better score in that content category. APA format and
writing style will not be re-graded.
•Points possible for revised and resubmitted work will not exceed the "proficient" rubric
category (84%).
•Any revision must be submitted for re-evaluation within 7 days after the assignment grade
is posted. For example, if your assignment grade is posted on Friday at 12 noon MT, you
have until the following Friday at 12 noon MT to resubmit any content area that did not
earn a proficient rating.
•Within 7 days from your resubmission, the class instructor will post your score for the
resubmitted work.
Steps to follow for resubmission of a content section within an assignment that did not earn
a proficient rating on the rubric:
•Contact your class instructor privately via email, phone, or Canvas private message to
inform them that you plan to resubmit a content section of the assignment that did not
receive a proficient rating on the rubric.
•Submit the assignment in its entirety (including the rewritten content section) within 7
days of the original assignment grade being posted.